Reviews

First and foremost , how refreshing to see a movie based in one of the lesser known states, ie Wisconsin.

The characters have some depth, from alcoholism to greed and ignorance.

Dialogue is sparse and witty, with soem occaioanl grwat lines.

The genius of the director lies in his understanding of the dramatic, and his penchant for making you think, how would I get out of thsi situation, will they make it out of here or not, very good to see.

There is a great dialogue of black holes superbly rendered, soenthing which I suspect Stephen Hawking purloined for his little book on space 30 years later.

The scenery is decent throughout, and the SE though looking single takes is very well executed, given limitations of the time.

The focus of some of the movie appears in part to be on fading starlets, and let's face it, they are deliciously real 70s women, a nice smattering of delicious curves , with varying . Degrees of acting skills from the good to not so good The preacher is very preacher like, a commanding performance, the sheriff doesn't seem very animated, thr hillbilly husband plays fairly well, and as for the monster models , one of them is blindingly majestic. A brilliant scene unfolds near the end where I suspect locals were employed with eyebrow raiding results.

If you can't enjoy this film, laugh atcits comedic qualities of dialogue, then you should learn to relax a litrle.

The characters are gritty and earthy. Jill Clayburgh was desrcibd as having a new York accent so thick you could cut it with a steak knife, and for a debut role she didn't do too badly at all.

So why criticism of her Flatbush dialect I'm not sure, but I know she was from a better part of NYNY. But hey opinions make the world go round.

The scenes are very 1975 so totally amazing to see, nice canvasses of Street life and soem beautiful touches of real people peering back at the camera as it trawls the streets. Oppressive police offices manned by jerks. Aesthetically I felt drawn completely into a compelling seedy and familiar underworld, even if the plot and script was a little watery at times. That's th problem they give Lee Remick I think.

The performance of JC was a taste of things to come, Remick was a little by her best, and all the seedy cops and fleabag hotel managers an pimps play fine roles and from the totally delicious across the decades Beverly Hope Atkinson brings some laughter to the scenes and she really put he stamp on those-when she was given lines to deliver-then in her 30s, still looking about 18. Total romp and immersion, ino a time lost, a very good movie.

A slow slow burner, so very very slow, to the pint of watching paint dry. The setting is a dusty backwater with little or no traffic passing through except a potentially interacting cargo that rocks up a little way in. The dialogue is a dirge and in its defence maybe doesn't translate too well... from what I could grab of the dialogue, Hungarian women's voices are excessively deep, no worries but kind of adds to the atmosphere.

There's a tail-less cat that appears from time to time among the plastic white chairs in the forecourt and even on a chair, that appears to possess an acre more substance than the rest of this film.

I stopped it half way though to see if I'd missed anything but I hadn't, it really was that unmemorable.

I belive the point might be that the people involved in the gathering at the gas station in the middle of what ought to be that vast dull outback of the Hortobagy (Hungarys wheat plains) don't really have all that much to say or do, being such empty characters, that they go mental on each other which is what I would have done if I'd been in their company.

About 2/3 of the way through, it sparks into life in brutal fashion. There's nothing new about any of it, apart from a saucy scene in a woodshed. The scenery and kino side are suitably atmospheric, in a true romance kind of way.

Quote of the movie has to be, and it exactly reflects my choice of movie... "I'm too old for this ****'+".

Hell It's a free movie off of a Streaming channel so that at least is in its favour.

I usually give films every chance, or I did until I had more life behind me than in front of me.

The action begins when an army of unelected beurocrats from space invade our pristine British space. In I'm afraid the dialogues are peculiarly wooden and just what you'd expect from a small British studio in too many films of the pat two decades when cinematography has become much more accessible to rubbish directors and their ego massagers.a moderately modernised reflection of the book which is actually slightly less dull than half of this effort.

It's the book, fed into an Ai generated script generator by a drunk trying follow the science of Marvins incursion while falling off a barstool, every paraphrase and cliche as predictable as the last.

Characters come and go and annoyingly reappear and a happy time it is when their time is over, as the small crowd head North to London armed only with a handful of half formulated ideas.

Ah but the bright spot is the CGi does enough, beautifully at times, to hold you in place and twhts what gets it a 6. The end, like that of blue movie usually, shouldn't be seen.

I recall would vividly my father throwing his toys out of the pram when I bought this home, with my money. Thing is horrors always made my brother crap his pants, and I don't think the old man was to clever in that department either.

Only a person with a heart of stone wouldnt laugh at that now, indelible in the mind scene of the anatomical dismemeberfucation.

The plot is Shakespearean. The music makes you feel like you've been on a trip inside the minds of Moog Express, and the acting is on a par with a man does all seasons.

In the future MGM should look back on this and rightfully gold their heads in shame that they didn't capitalise on its down home Super 8 wealth.

Poor and .pointless badly acted I've never seen a performance so completely disemboweling as. Elka Portnoys, it looked frighteningly narcotic enhanced.

Also Chsristianm Slaters being mesmerized by the dancinmg, the same expression each time was creepy and repetitive, lifeless. He seems. To have been cast as investigative senate perv. He was probably thinking have thought how the hell did I end up in this. Add to that characters with as much depth as Bucks Fizz and a sub story line, the three cops at the lakeside and .Slaters escort .just disappear from the plot despite being connected to the murders.

What I can't work out now .is why two actresses were used, to portray the same person who has a 'split' personality disorder.

Even Timothy Spall can't add anything to the script, with its lame Turkish disco banter.

That' aside the opening action plots are if you can put aside the sexy eastern assassin who rocks .every cliche ever, borrows Heavily from Nikita, LA noir you name .it, with really cringe .shots .between her black booted legs, she's all in black by the way head to foot., So no plus .points there, .and .Bridget Fonda she ain't.

The story lacks .any real continuity, characters without depth or inm many cases continuity.

I started with a four but scrub that it's a 3 at best.

You will gain nothing from this, unless you have the movie .watching mind of a 13 year old boy.

That's all folks.

A showcase for British cars for sure, and cups of tea all round.

Zena Marshall has very distracting eyes it's almost like one is glass, i am sure that not the case, but her charming sexy suggestiveness puts spring in the step of this cabinet of wooden curios.

Beret as Janice is as annoying a 50s mockney as you can imagine, her crowned? Incisor glowing like a torch, which pays tribute to some bad lighting, while her hair is simply beautiful to behold.

Who gets alcohol.as part of an arrest? Yes they tried to push boundaries a little.

Also a hilarious nod to James Bond tech (Marshall having been in Dr No) The whole thing is patriarchal, with basic 'dumb blondes' (Beret) and the fragile but sexy Marshall, not a great beacon for women's equality but a la mode for the day.

Contains I believe the worst/funniest fight scene I've witnessed to date, but the film bowls along nicely in a classic London setting.

The movie signalled a great dawn in American movie making.

If you've lived in smallsville anywhere, you'll fully understand the machinery that drives this movie along.

Characters are just lovable, you can connect with, so rare in many movies, so many memorable moments.

Losers are winners, it makes a change, and of course there is the freshness of actors who had never been near Hollywood.

It's all hilariously bleak, people are looking to move on up in the world it's nothing short of extraordinary in its every day-ness, lots of us just know how they feel, they found the recipe of tragi-conic-iconic and use it to devastating effect.

Well some of the music is a positive point, I tried to Shazam it, no such luck, it's like funky porn music stuff.

Jahangir Rad is iIm sure of Indian descent: and the movie definitely has an old Bollywood feel about it.

He probably looked a lot at these type of movie, but shot on Super 8? OK.

Another plus is the locations picked to make the movie,.they are quite beautiful, another Bollywood style.

Balls to the acting, a super backdrop will easily distract.

I had it on in the background and I got drawn in, there are some parts that make you laugh aloud, only because of their badness-: it must be up there with Plan 9 as a total turd to be honest, but was I entertained? Yes I was.

Don't expect actors who can deliver lines, I'm sure most of them are delivering pizza now.

Are the actors among the worse to grace a screen? Yes they are, but (Doctor) Melody Wiggins is sure stunning enough to carry the plot, if there ever was one.

Someone between one and seven stars, going up and down that scale.

Don't try the suffocating headlock at home. It won't work.

I would really love to know why Bizarre Magazine hire a 12 years old to write film reviews. The plot is wafer thin, there is no coherence, the acting is poor, aside from the lead actress who makes a valiant effort to recover this flop, and the hillbilly maniac who was OK. It started shakily, but passable, I thought it would roll along as a half decent movie at best, and then it descended into the mire. It was boring, lazily filmed, the plot, if there was one, was formulated over a can of Stella, badly made, without being bad enough to make culy status. Useless, it will be 50 pence at the music exchanges within oooh seconds.

As I slumped down to watch this, the first five minutes made me think hmm OK give it a chance. After five minutes I had stepped into the film, the theme of bullying, the black comedy and sexual abuse were very real to me; I had seen similar things in the Midlands, in a similar setting of urban decay. right down to the returning soldier who hardly fits in any more, is armed for life only with a knowledge in how to kill and faced with a bunch of sociopaths who, not only hadn't moved on and out, had actual taken control of the town and the p*** out of his family. The Herbies and Maffs and Richies are an all too familiar figure in many ridiculous guises on the High Streets and WMCs of the UK.

Most if not all of it was wonderfully acted, it made me press my head back into the sofa once or twice and the boys all fell into their roles all too perfectly. Herbies problems with stairs made me laugh. At Maffs house and at the club upstairs in the toilet-with Shane coming out finally from under the stairs-some people do have a reoccurring theme and this was beautifully portrayed. Anyone who has been in the situ at the party where the animal turns up, the last person you would want to turn up in a certain state is a reoccurring theme in Shanes films-also very true to life. Why the extend3ed cheese sniffing scene wasn't put INTO the film was beyond me. For me the moment where Paddy Considine strokes Gary Stretches face as he takes him to his demise is particularly disturbing and shows great insight to the freakishness of acid heads-Shane I think admits as much to that sort of inside knowledge-I don't know if Paddy had a brother in the army, but this is what they are like when they return-sometimes with a new persona-the message is totally clear-don't bully-bullying is wrong. I watched the whole thing in disbelief seeing little bits of my life played back, and wondered who might come and get me,who might I go and get my own back on. Fair play. A film for a change that really challenges the mind and to think it is a horror/thriller as well.