I am sure that many people enjoyed "Mean Guns" on a purely shoot-em-up level. I enjoy a good violent action flick as much as the next guy, but this one was too repetitive and too corny to enjoy.
It was fun in a trashy kind of way, but fails to reach any level of discernible quality. All the characters are shallow caricatures; they are given a certain attribute and forced to play it up for the whole movie. We have no investment in the characters because they don't ring true; they're cartoon characters.
The plot is intriguing, but the movie is content to let a bunch of scumbags kill each other rather than mixing psychological motivation amid the violence. I didn't know or care about any of the characters that got shot, stabbed, beaten or blown up.
The only pleasure I got from "Mean Guns" was trying to decide which performance was worse: Ice-T's or Lambert's. I still haven't made up my mind. Oh yeah, watch for the scene with the girl whose head is set on fire. Laughable. And the ending is ridiculous. Pass this one over, folks. It was straight-to-tape for a reason.
It was fun in a trashy kind of way, but fails to reach any level of discernible quality. All the characters are shallow caricatures; they are given a certain attribute and forced to play it up for the whole movie. We have no investment in the characters because they don't ring true; they're cartoon characters.
The plot is intriguing, but the movie is content to let a bunch of scumbags kill each other rather than mixing psychological motivation amid the violence. I didn't know or care about any of the characters that got shot, stabbed, beaten or blown up.
The only pleasure I got from "Mean Guns" was trying to decide which performance was worse: Ice-T's or Lambert's. I still haven't made up my mind. Oh yeah, watch for the scene with the girl whose head is set on fire. Laughable. And the ending is ridiculous. Pass this one over, folks. It was straight-to-tape for a reason.