When I heard about Kane being involved in an horror movie playing -surprise surprise- the "badass", I was extremely excited. I mean, he's huge and - let's say it- he's ugly. And also the character himself "Kane" is very dark and interesting (The athlete behind Kane-character is named Glen Jacobs). When I've seen, at the cinema, the logo "WWE" and Mr. MacMahon as the executive producer, I had my creeps. I said "these money freaks are messing with my movie genre". Fortunately, they aren't. This movie is pretty much a slasher, not so different from Friday 13, and it's about Jacob Goodnight, the killer, obsessed by sins and the eradication of them in the most radical way.This character is crafted in a very realistic way. All of his obsessions belong to his mother, which is obsessed as well by sins and by the holy scriptures. This mother creates, with a certain satisfaction, a monster, which has her same ideas and, more important, the proper physicality to "do his job". And he will "perform his opera" on a group of people, convicts working in an abandoned hotel, which reveals to be a trap for these "sinners". And, I'm afraid, the plot ends here. Should follow a description of some scenes, but, you know, I don't want to be boring; anyway, I trust you get what kind of movie this is. Now, the style is very modern, sometimes it resembles a video clip for a hip hop single. There are no boring points, but, being a slasher, there are a lot of strong violence scenes, and the whole movie it's a crescendo for the final challenge.Which is, like, 3 to 1, in terms of number, but Kane has the body he has. . . well it was some 3 vs 3, OK? The actors are "kinda" OK. There isn' t a lot to recite, except: a sex scene, a nude scene, and a lot of vulgarities, spoken and suggested. And the respective deaths, of course.
Kane has been a surprise!! I expected a giant grunting all the time with an horrible expression (the same he has when he fights), and he actually was. But when talking to the "lovely mum" . . .more than a serial killer, seemed to be Forrest Gump! He has this mutable expression, at the end of the movie, which left me completely breathless. OK, he isn't Micheal Gambon, but . . . you see he's putting a lot more than his 6' 8 . . and that's something!!
All in all, a movie that is entirely shot on the charisma of Kane, and that's why it works. This movie isn't "the next big thing" for the slashers, but it's way better than the latter 5 "Friday 13" and the latter 5 "A Nightmare on Elm Street" as well.
Note for music lovers: the soundtrack SUCKS a load!!
This movie has the same problem of all the slashers in the 90s. No evolution. It is what it is. If you like people being killed by a brutish guy with some serious mental problems, fine. If you don't. . . what are you doing here?
Kane has been a surprise!! I expected a giant grunting all the time with an horrible expression (the same he has when he fights), and he actually was. But when talking to the "lovely mum" . . .more than a serial killer, seemed to be Forrest Gump! He has this mutable expression, at the end of the movie, which left me completely breathless. OK, he isn't Micheal Gambon, but . . . you see he's putting a lot more than his 6' 8 . . and that's something!!
All in all, a movie that is entirely shot on the charisma of Kane, and that's why it works. This movie isn't "the next big thing" for the slashers, but it's way better than the latter 5 "Friday 13" and the latter 5 "A Nightmare on Elm Street" as well.
Note for music lovers: the soundtrack SUCKS a load!!
This movie has the same problem of all the slashers in the 90s. No evolution. It is what it is. If you like people being killed by a brutish guy with some serious mental problems, fine. If you don't. . . what are you doing here?