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Tail Sting (2001)
This film made me laugh from start to finish.
It's a long time since I've seen a film this bad. Where do we begin? The security guard hiding in the back of the truck just before it was robbed. He never told his boss... if he had then the whole movie would have been finished before it began. It's not a big deal but it's that kind of sloppiness and lack of attention to detail that get's this film into deep water very quickly indeed. I'm glad it does though. This is cheese that could easily have been made by a modern day Ed Wood.
Particular highlights include:
boom mic visible - not just the mic itself but the guy who is holding it too. Astonishing!
Capt Jack Russell! - not a single snide joke or funny look when the wooden captain announces who he is. The audience will be spellbound by his "acting" talents. The blindfold - ooo ha ah ha ha ha. He could see right through that and it was completely obvious!
The plane - it's on about three different levels. The same hatch seems to lead to a multitude of different places underneath. The lighting.
OK sunlight streams down from above in one scene - through one of the skylights on the plane. The coffin contains so many holes that you could easily be mistaken that they're just holding a coffin lid above the two actors. Everything is dark. Even when the plane is working properly.
The plot of Tail Sting is so full of holes that you could easily mistake it for a piece of swiss cheese. Nothing makes sense. The stuff that does make sense isn't scientifically accurate. Some things could have been checked with a child's encyclopedia.
I loved this movie. Everything that could have been wrong was completely and utterly wrong, wrong, wrong. Watching this was like watching a train crash in slow motion. A hilarious, badly acted, badly shot, badly scripted train crash. Lovely.