Review of Get Mean

Get Mean (1975)
1/10
What is this?
11 September 2021
No, seriously. What the hell is this? Usually I mark my reviews as spoilers, but this is unnecessary here, as it simply isn't possible for me to spoil this movie to anyone, because I haven't got the slightest idea what the hell happened.

Some stranger gets the mission to bring a Princess back to Spain, so they can fend off the barbarians roaming the country. He is offered $10,000 for it but he demands a much higher sum. It's never really agreed upon on screen but apparently they settle for $50,000. During the travel to Spain a narrator voice explains to us that the stranger "travels back in time with every mile traveled" (or something to that extend). Why? It isn't explained. The whole premise doesn't make sense. Okay, this is set in some alternative reality, but this alternative reality isn't explored in the slightest. Strange things happen and the viewer is left to figure out what this is about.

Back in Spain the Barbarians battle against the English, the stranger and the Princess are caught. The stranger says "you can have her for $50,000 because she is crazy and she isn't even a real princess". What the...? Some kind of businessman he is. Of course the baddies just kidnap the princess and leave the stranger to die. But he is saved by some unknown woman, brought back to the castle where the King of Spain(?) is on his death bed, but out stranger just demands getting paid because he brought the Princess back. Wow, what an a-hole.

Then it gets some more weird scenes, everyone tries to betray everyone else and in the end the viewer is none the wiser because this movie is boring, awful to watch, and utterly pointless.
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