Reviews

Charlie Brando will make you an offer you can't refuse. The sight of him trying to act and emote, but failing miserably. But it's good for a laugh, before it bores you to tears. Charlie playing a mobbed up Eye-talian is about as convincing as Whoopi Goldberg playing the Queen of England. When Charlie's buddy has his family jewels sliced off, Charlie tries with all his might to emote, but can't pull it off, and seems rather bored by it all.

The movie also went on too long and the structure was rather poor. The acting was crummy all around, and Bronson is pretty horrible. His one-note, stone-faced "acting" style does this film no favors. Charlie's wife Jill Ireland also plays an Eye-talian. Seeing her in practically every Bronson movies gets old quickly. Did Charlie insist she appear in practically every movie he made? Well, at least she's not as bad as Sondra Locke. Also, several of the Eye-talian actors appear to be dubbed.

If you like a movie with goombas running around killing each other every five minutes, you might enjoy this. Everyone else should steer clear. It certainly ain't no Godfather, capiche?

The whole premise of this "documentary" was so ridiculously fake, I'm really surprised anyone fell for it, and thought there really was a genuine "lost" Melies film out there that drove people mad.

First of all, the talking heads in this are bad actors, and it's obvious they are putting it on for the camera. There is nothing genuine about their wooden performances, whether they are real directors and film people is neither here nor there, they can't act.

Second of all, there is not a snowball's chance in hell that Melies directed anything that would scare people are drive them crazy. Anyone who knows anything about the films of Melies knows they are lighthearted fantasy romps with no actual terror or horror. The whole premise of this sham "documentary" is ludicrous beyond belief. It's like asking you to believe that Charlie Chaplin made a horrific silent film filled with such terror that it drives people mad.

Pull the other one, it has bells on it!

Laughably awful. Vince Vaughan was terrible. He can't act his way out of a paper bag. And to ask an audience to believe that he can outfight every person he comes into contact with is absurd beyond belief. The action scenes in this movie are about as believable as the scenes from a low budget martial arts movie from the 1970s.

The prison scenes are also ludicrous. Especially when he is moved to the high security prison. That prison is about as realistic and believable as a prison from a 1930s prison movie. From Don Johnson twirling his cigar, to his men decked out in ridiculous fascist style uniforms, to the prison conditions themselves and the way the prisoners are treated, it is pure unadulterated fantasy that makes Lord of the Rings look like a Mike Leigh directed social realist drama.

The violence is also excessive, but it is so poorly done that it all becomes laughable. This could have been written by a 12 year old boy. Terrible.

Oui oui! Zee French, dey make zee extreeeeme film too! In zee not so fine tradition of Gaspar Noe (ok he's Argentine), and the cretins who made such abominations as Martyrs and Twentynine Palms, comes the newest version of laughable French extremism, Titane!

You may well bristle at the lack of plot, the terrible acting, and the amateurish writing. On the other hand, if you're looking for a neon-soaked sub-Cronenbergian body horror, new flesh, non-binary laugh fest, this is the movie for you! If you like characters and acting that are annoying beyond belief, this is the movie for you! If you like a main character without one redeeming quality whatsoever, you'll love this! If you ever wondered what happens when a mentally disturbed woman has sex with a car, later giving birth to an adorable little rivet-spined baby, this is the movie for you! As for me, I'd rather have a steel plate inserted into my head and receive a few hundred kicks to it before I ever watch this travesty again. That David Cronenberg is recommending this joke of a film just shows how much he has lost the plot.

One of the worst movies I've ever seen. Cheesy beyond belief. Horrible acting, especially by the dwarf cult member. A plot that is laughably bad. Tedious and uninteresting action scenes. And they stole the masks bit from Scooby-Doo cartoons, but there is more depth, craft, and intelligence in any episode of Scooby-Doo than there is in this worthless crap fest of a movie. Tom Cruise should have retired in shame after this debacle of a movie, instead of subjecting the world to more of his one note, feeble acting performances. He is remarkably talent-free. Why people continue to watch his movies is a mystery to me. Maybe they are masochists?

This was a low budget movie, but had an interesting story. However, the execution of this movie was extremely incompetent. Throughout many scenes in the movie, you can see the boom mic hanging down from the top of the screen! Unbelievable! I mean, I've seen a boom mic in a scene or two in some movies, but it just hangs there for half a minute in some of the scenes. Complete incompetence!

Also, the aliens looked rather ridiculous, since they were just children with bald heads.

The acting was also fairly poor, with Robert "Revenge of the Nerds" Carradine, and Cherie Currie from the band The Runaways, which also featured Joan Jett.

However, I did find the story interesting enough to hold my attention throughout the movie.

Another interesting thing to note was that the exteriors of the building where the aliens were kept was a facility know as Lookout Mountain, which is located in Laurel Canyon in Los Angeles. Lookout Mountain was actually a government run film studio, which was active until the late 60s, which produced military films, including footage of nuclear explosions. The facility was sold in 1968, so at the time Wavelength was made, it was in private hands. An American Indian character actor owned it for much of the seventies, but lost it in the early 80s when he went broke. Apparently, the director of Wavelength did not have permission to shoot the exterior of the facility, so there was a bit of guerilla filming going on, or so I've read. Jared Leto now owns the property.

Another interesting point is that Tangerine Dream did the score for the film. I'm not sure why they would become involved in such a low budget project. Maybe they liked the subject matter. Anyway, it's not one of their best scores.

All in all, a somewhat interesting effort for such a low budget production that is marred by boom mic incompetence.

Wow what a turkey. This movie was painfully bad. The lead actor (who was in Chariots of Fire) has all the charisma of a wooden plank. I was surprised to see Hal Holbrook, Ned Beatty, and Trevor Howard slumming it in this worthless garbage. Well, I guess everyone has bills to pay.

The plot is ludicrous and cliched beyond belief. The so-called evil in the film is laughable. The special effects are so horrendous you'll be rolling on the floor with laughter. The creature effects at the end of the movie are inept and unbelievably bad. The demon looks like a rubber mutant dog with mange, which jauntily capers down the church isle, looking as if it will lose its balance and topple over at any moment. I kid in kindergarten could make a papier-mache creature which would be more convincing. Oh, and lets not forget the kids in rubber evil dwarf costumes who harass the priest at the end. Hilariously awful. One of the worst films of the 80s.

Cliched espionage hijinks full of atrocious acting and a non-existent plot. The director thinks that tilting the camera at a jaunty angle makes for an arty and interesting shot. It doesn't. It just makes him look incompetent. And by this point Frankenheimer seems to have lost the plot.

The movie itself has no plot to speak of. It consists of the cast jetting around to different countries, and having run-ins with various incompetent would-be killers who may or may not be Nazis. By about fifteen minutes into the film you will have ceased to care either way, and will probably be hoping for a hydrogen bomb to go off and spare everyone the pain of sitting though to the end to find out what happens. The ending itself is hilariously bad, and Michael Caine seems to pull the "it's all a plot to consolidate every terrorist organization in the world!" reasoning right out of his behind, since there is absolutely no build up to this throughout the movie.

Caine seems to be phoning in his performance when not overacting, and there are some excruciatingly bad bits of dialogue that had me rolling on the floor with laughter i.e. "I like!" when asked if he wants to murder his mommy's killer. Victoria Tennant's performance should also be singled out as being particularly terrible. I don't think she could act her way out of a paper sack. And that slack-jawed, vacant expression she constantly wears really starts to grate on the nerves.

Overall an insipid, inept, pointless production.

This film was basically a critique of the American system. I don't have a problem with critiques of capitalism, and other aspects of American life, but this was just poorly done.

John Travolta's character is basically a victim of American capitalism, and his job loss leaves him feeling so helpless, he takes a gun in to the museum where he works as a security guard, intent on getting his job back.

I'd like to know how he manages to own a home, when he states in the film he makes $8 an hour as a security guard. Only in the fantasyland of Hollywood is this type of thing possible.

The filmmakers are also obviously poking fun at how dumb many Americans are, making Travolta's character an embarrassingly stupid person. He seems to be channeling the stupidity of his Vinnie Barbarino character in Welcome Back Kotter, but it is done in an inept and pathetic way. His acting is atrociously bad in this movie.

Dustin Hoffman's acting fared much better, but it wasn't a very challenging role.

There were also poorly done critiques of the American media throughout the film. It was all very obvious and ham-fisted. The critical targets in the movie deserve a skewering, but it was done in such a tiresome and obvious way it was laughable.