Reviews

While the acting is very good, this movie is yet another example of Hollywood Americanizing a great film. If you've already seen The Man Facing Southeast, don't waste your money, this is almost a verbatim remake, with some of the more humanizing scenes taken out. Fortunately, unlike some previous Hollywood remakes (i.e. City of Angels), the movie's philosophical points aren't changed much, and the ending is fairly similar, although this is slightly more saccharine than the original.

This is definitely one of those movies just to watch to see how bad it is. I'm not too sure if you'll be laughing at it, or laughing with it, but the scenarios are ridiculous (including retarded gangsters trying to ride their bicycles and talk on the cellphone at the same time), the acting is pretty horrible (although Master P's vocabulary primarily consists of Uuuuuuuuugh anyway), and there's gratuitous shots of just about anything that doesn't help the continuity of the movie. Next to "Dolemite II: The Human Tornado", this is probably the funniest movie that its only humor is derived from the horribleness of the movie.

As a lover of bad movies, I definitely hit paydirt with this one. The plot isn't really that bad, but there are a few instances where you really have to ask yourself "what the heck is going on here?"

There are many many things that make this the funniest bad movie ever. First off, Rudy Ray Moore had gotten so fat and slow when this movie was filmed that the special effects consist of speeding up the fight scenes to double time. There are also scenes where there is a slow-motion instant replay, jumping onto a ten foot high wall (by playing falling off of it backwards), naked men walking out of huge letters, and sex that literally brings down the roof (with the cable holding up the roof catching on fire).

Of course, no Rudy Ray Moore movie would be complete without a completely gratuitous and random comedy club scene where Rudy makes fun of all the customers, interposed with people doing some odd dance. There are so many things bad about this movie, but they're bad in an entertaining way, and if you take your eyes off the movie, you might miss another mistake.

Rating: 1/10 for actual value, 10/10 for cheese factor, 10/10 for picking out mistakes and goofs, averages out to 7/10.

This is one film which lacks any of the qualities which traditionally make an anime movie (or any other movie for that matter) great. This tries to be a socially relevant film about what would happen if man became savage again. However, it flies way off the mark and comes off hokey, demeaning to your intellience, and just plain boring.

If you rent this movie expecting to see Jackie Chan kick some butt, you're going to be very disappointed. Director Sammo Hung succeeds in showing the more sensitive side of Jackie in this movie. The focus of the film is really on the relationship between Jackie and his older, mentally retarded brother Do-do (Hung), how he can't live out many of his aspirations because of him, and how his brother can't take care of himself. This is something very different for Chan fans to watch, but it still provides key moments of humor and action.

I have a few comments about this film; First, I myself am in a fraternity and what is depicted by this film is not the norm, at least where I go to school. However, the hazing that the pledges (and at one point the filmmakers) have to go through is pretty chilling. I should have been able to have seen this on HBO, but instead I had to go to a film festival just to see it. I'm very disappointed that just because of potential legal problems HBO shelved this movie, one of the better documentaries that I've seen in recent years.