Neive Bellamy
Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.
Bob
This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
Fleur
Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.
Carl Lynder
I'm not certain how Ulli Lommel's empty thriller Absolute Evil got into the Berlin film festival, but after the woeful Daniel the Magician from a few years ago, I'm surprised, very surprised. Toplined David Carradine plays a jovial sort of gangster which is a small role in this home-made thriller film. The story has a woman chasing after her father's killers about 15 years too late. A torture/waterboarding scene is the primal image in Absolute Evil -- it is the scene that Lommel cuts back to frequently, and becomes the symbol of how this movie grates on the nerves.Absolute Evil borrows from such films as Kill Bill and Planet of the Apes, but steals more heavily from Lommel's own C-grade horror efforts, such as The Boogeyman, BTK Killer, Green River Killer, Killer Pickton, and Mummy Maniac. In other words, Absolute Evil borrows extensively from other filmmakers. There are a few fancy cinematic moments in Absolute Evil, and if one looked carefully one might find these, too, have been borrowed from other movies. Absolute Evil is technically terrible -- the lighting and sound are in particular abysmal. The reviewer for Hollywood Reporter got it right when he said, the film "is quite simply excruciating to watch." Whoever wrote in the IMDb comments that this was a great movie must have mistaken Absolute Evil for some other flick.
cliffwellman-1
I've watched "Absolute Evil" three times now. And each time it gets better and better. there are so many cool elements in the movie, and so many hidden messages. It's almost like you're on a treasure hunt. I dunno why anyone in their right mind doesn't get this, but I guess we live in a world of quick fixes and surfacy attitudes. I - like many other viewers - absolutely hated Lommel's serial killer films, I mean Lions Gate obviously did a great job with trailers and DVD cover and so on, but the minute you watched one of those films, you had to be disappointed.So when my buddy Charlie, a die-hard Ulli Lommel fan, dragged me into "Absolute Evil" I was ready for more of the same. But, hey! Was I wrong!!! This one really rocks, man! Eighty tight minutes of twists and turns and cool character developments and commentaries on our messed up society. Ulli Lommel haters, get ready: You cannot diss this one, you just can't!! And take this from a former hater. He made a great film, guys. Now what???
elvis-fan
"I only want you to love me" is the title of a Fassbinder movie. Ulli Lommel, who once was Fassbinder's partner in many movies, seems to have adapted this slogan for his main characters. Whether it's his cult hit "Tenderness of the Wolves" (1973) or his bizarre serial killer series with Lionsgate in the U.S., all his main characters seem to scream the same desire. In "Absolute Evil" David Carradine, who plays the angry leader of the 17th Street gang, yearns for love, but doesn't know how to give it. The film is an homage to all film noires, all suspense thrillers, especially from the 1940s. The story moves along like a cool spider web, slowly but steadily grabbing you by the tail and sucking you up in its horrific universe of revenge, torture, redemption and murder.It's one of the best indie low-budget films I have seen in years. How the hell can I get my hands on a DVD? Who's releasing this gem?
FassbinderFan85
The film played at Berlinale film festival in Berlin and the premiere was on February 8th. I got the ticket to the premiere the day before and later I heard that the screening was sold out!It's a nice movie about love, hate, forgiveness and murder. The main roles are played by new talents like Carolyn Neff and Rusty Joiner, but there is also 'veteran actors' like Ulli Lommel, Chris Kriesa and David Carradine. I think Lommel makes his best performance in years plus Kriesa and Carradine were great choices to their roles such as Neff and Joiner.I hope it will be released on DVD soon, so I can buy it!
