Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

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.

hwg1957-102-265704 The girlfriend of a crazy cult leader runs away from him after he blows up a cruise ship and two years later ends up singing raunchily in a Las Vegas casino. She is spotted by a contact of the cult leader so he goes to Las Vegas to take her back. Now most people, even crazy cult leaders, would have waited until she left work and nabbed her. Simple. This one though fills the place with bombs and assaults the casino with a small army who shoot lots of people, descend from the roof and cause complete chaos enabling the ex-girlfriend to evade capture helped by two cops. Then basically it is cat and mouse in the casino. A gunfight here, an explosion there and so forth.The clichés come thick and fast. One of the cops has a big ego and is a loose cannon. One of the cops is a drinker and a bad father (his daughter turns up at one point whining at him). The police Chief yells at everybody. The villain muses philosophically. Etc. Etc.The acting could only be described as boring. The cops are interchangeable and the lead actress is so ordinary you wonder why the cult leader is so obsessed with her. The villain Maxwell has all the menace of a fluffy kitten. Having zero charisma you wonder why he had so many followers. So on all fronts not a film that reaches even to a decent level.

Besart Prishtina I kind a love B-Movies because apart from SFX, a b-movie can have a very good script and acting,but this one was very very bad.Since the beginning i got a feeling that this one will be bad (very bad), essentially what saved this "movie" was acting Alton, Davidson, Surewiec were good. But on the other hand based on special effects you can see clearly that this movie had a very low budget but than again low budget is not an excuse for such a bad, stupid and not intelligent at all script. I felt bad for actors that were part of this, and my vote strictly represents my view about the movie (as a script), but on the other hand i would give an 8 to actors.

Paul Wakefield I bought this on DVD as Amazon put it into my "recommendations list". Shame on you, this movie should never be recommended to anyone (except perhaps serial killers who want to reform). As someone who after watching just about every disaster movie there is (and now I know how to pilot a 747 in a lightning storm,what to do if ever a volcano springs up in Doncaster in England, or tornado landslide or earthquake)thought, oh I saw Jim Davidson (not our English comedian) in a movie called Crowfoot and thought it was watchable (perhaps Erin Gray was the real reason for watching it, but thats besides the point) I wondered if he could repeat the role of an American Cop who plays by the book. NO. Here we have the usual cop who wants to be Mr bigshot and knows it all, fine if you are Bruce Willis or Mel Gibson, their acting skills can add a hint of irony and comedy to this sort of thing, sorry Jim, you are not in the same league.I think that there was a storyline but in got lost in the timeless world of constant explosions, how the casino remained standing after the amount of explosions beats me, Gerry Anderson did a much better job in the puppet series Thunderbirds back in the 1960's.The ending, well it was incredible in that it was so lame. There they were baddie and ex girlfriend stood on top of the Hoover Dam, by this point I was guessing what effects could be used, I thought we would end up with the rerun of the dam that cracks open in the first Superman Film, which I believe was partly edited into an episode of the A-Team or something in the eighties, but no we had a picture postcard of the dam been blown up several times and in between shots it magically part repaired itself.I'm glad it only cost me £1.96 from Amazon otherwise I would be returning it to the seller wanting my money back, whether the charity shop that is going to get lumbered with it sell it remains to be seen, at least if they get it donated back several times, they would make more of a profit for a good cause.As for Amazon, sorry I will not be taking you up on any more recommendations from now on.

TachoX2 Oh this is bad. I knew within a couple minutes this was going to be awful. The cruise ship scene with the flames was a riot. It only got worse from there.Some spoilers with questions:When the attack on the casino happened, what was up with the guys coming down from the rafters on ropes? This place obviously had no security so they could have walked right in, automatic weapons and all. Also, when one of the swat guys gets blown backwards, you can see the rope pulling him backwards, twice. Oh yeah, since when does the SWAT team use a school bus (painted white).The sports car (a Miata) on the casino floor. Keys just happened to be in it and to give the illusion that one of the bad guys was going fast while driving it, they showed close ups of his face and the background as a blur. When he was shown from 20-30 feet away, he was going all of 15-20 mph (if that).Why are they always blowing up slot machines with grey painted tap lights?Numerous stock footage of police cars, ambulances, etc. Rather obvious since the film color didn't match. Also, when the bridge blows up, there is one car that goes over that makes more of an explosion that the Shell tanker that went over first!What happened to the scaffolding that Maxwell was on when they showed him at the bottom of the dam?Too many other things to list. Wonder what the budget was for this...