To start with, I have to make a confession: Even though I consider myself an expert in B movies (I have my own B movie review website), I had never heard of Vista Street Entertainment before getting a Brentwood 10-pack DVD box set. Looking up several of the movies at the IMDb, I found four of them were made by Vista, and the user comments that there were for the movies were not favorable... to say the least. It got me curious - could any one of these movies be THAT bad? I decided to investigate, picking this movie to watch.
After watching "Revenge Quest", I think I can safely say that YES, this so-called "movie" is as bad as you've heard. In fact, I think it's even worse than you can imagine. Where to begin? Well, the movie is completely shot on a VHS camcorder, and EVERY shot looks and sounds hideous. You might think that shooting on VHS would leave extra money for production values, but you'd be wrong. Although this movie is set in 2031, practically NOTHING in this movie looks futuristic - it looks like 1995 Los Angeles. And while the opening written crawl mentions Mars and a giant prison on the planet, we get to see NOTHING of the red planet or this prison. (Why didn't they just have the prison near Los Angeles?) The courtroom in the movie is just a small lecture hall, people shoot bullets at each other in confined spaces but you see no bullet holes or ejected cartridges, and you hear the sound of a TYPEWRITER in the movie's futuristic police station. Oh, and the movie borrows A LOT from the movie "The Terminator", even setting one brief scene on the same location the original movie shot at.
I know that some of what I have written in the previous package sounds like the movie is so-bad-it's-good. But it isn't. It's SO amateurish, SO cheap, SO lacking in movie-making passion that the movie is painful to watch. You probably won't be surprised to learn I am not going to watch the other Vista Street Entertainment movies in my 10 pack. I am surprised that V.S.E., 15 years from this movie, is still around and making cinematic atrocities. Well, now you know to avoid their movies, so maybe my pain was good for something.