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Iron Man 2 (2010)
An enjoyable mess – but don't expect a lot of action!
Iron Man 2 is perfectly adequate good-natured summer entertainment, but it loves its characters so much that it forgets to give them anything much to do.
The cast are uniformly excellent, the script is more intelligent than your average blockbuster – the one big flaw is the complete absence of any real action until the very end. The film could have easily been called "Iron Man's Day Off", there was that little going on for most of it. You get an impressive Grand Prix scene about half an hour in but otherwise its all talk, with Iron Man only doing a few party tricks until the obligatory final reel action overload. That comes a little too late and is somewhat samey – in the next film (and I do hope they do make one) I'd like to see Iron Man fight something other than robots or guys in robot suits.
I must add that I was also very disappointed to see that only two AC/DC songs actually featured in the film, will have to watch Maximum Overdrive again to compensate.
Zombie Nation (2004)
Makes House of the Dead look like Dawn of the Dead
Every year I watch hundreds of films, including many low budget amateurish straight-to-DVD abominations that nobody in their right mind would ever want to see. I have seen thousands of films in my time, many excellent, many forgettable. Zombie Nation I will remember forever as one of the most hopelessly laughable 'horror' films I have ever seen in fact I still haven't recovered from the experience of watching it.
The day after, it seems like some kind of weird dream. Did I really see what I thought I saw? Why do the police work out of a warehouse? Did the voodoo priestesses really recommend that the 'zombies' eat cheeseburgers? Is it safe? Is it safe? Is it safe?
I wouldn't recommend Zombie Nation if you want to see a 'good' film, and neither would I recommend it as 'so bad its good'. However, if you are entertained by the prospect of watching probably the most indefensibly abysmal film ever this is for you. Now, whenever anyone asks me what the worst film I have ever seen is, I will say Zombie Nation.
Seriously I think it's a greater crime to make a boring film than a bad one, and Ulli Lommel deserves credit for producing a film that actually stuns you with its ineptitude. He really is the Ed Wood Jr. of the digital age, and I for one can't wait to see if he makes another film as consistently ridiculous as this one.