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This is like an Ed Wood movie, as all the fights look like it was only 1 take. All the fights except 1 are all one sided to the stars. They just keep kicking ass and it gets boring real quick. Not 1 star got killed or hurt.

On a positive note, the main bad guy henchman played by Bob Schott, has a most impressive physique. Very massive for the time. It would have been a much better movie if he beat up all 5 main stars.

I like Duvall, that's why I watched this. But come on, cliché driven, for example his grandson visits the same day he is getting evicted. He has a gorgeous woman from a brothel of all places and half his age (or less), fall for him. Yeah right. Also, he's able to take out trained hitmen thru out the movie. And he's not even an ex-green beret/special forces.

Plus, his grandson is a terrible actor, and extremely annoying too. This might be Duvall's worse movie that he has starred in.

I never saw a kiss/romance happen so quick in a western, as it happened between Russell Johnson (Gilligan's Island, professor) and Ruth Hampton. They meet briefly in the field while she's picking flowers, but never talk. You find out that's Dennis Weaver's sister, though she sure doesn't look like his sister. I kept thinking one would find out he bought her from Mexico, but no, they stuck with the sister angle.

Anyway, Russell Johnson decides to go to the house to meet her (happens to be his neighbor). He barges right in, states that's his favorite song that she's playing (she agrees), the next thing you know, they are kissing! They don't know a single thing about each other, and all of a sudden they are in love. They took love at first site to a new level in this western! He even kills for her when they hardly known each other for 5 minutes.

Stray thoughts: It was hard to see Dennis Weaver as a villain, as one can see so much Chester (from Gunsmoke) in this movie. I was amazed that Russell Johnson can down a bottle of tequila in the DESERT, and still be able to climb rocks and have no ill effects of dehydration. What woman would give up a money making gambling saloon to be with a rancher for peanuts (Dorothy Malone did for Reagan)? Only when a script calls for it. Preston Foster was a good villain, his hand reminded of DR.NO of James Bond. I was waiting for him to crack Reagan's skull (or someone elses) with that cast iron hand. Can you believe Wally Cassell who played the Durango Kid lived to 103 in real life. Never did find out what happened to the Durango kid after Reagan brought him in. Overall, a watchable western and the frist one I was able to see with Reagan in it.

Despite all the bad acting and dumb decisions by the actors, somehow I sat thru this. I mean, who goes to a school closed down (funny how none of the alumni had any clue their high school has been closed for 5 years), shocked that the school is closed and still party. Here are some classic bad decisions: Guy tears out his stomach, it explodes spraying a woman in blood. The rest, as they should, freak out and try to get out of the school. Not the woman who got sprayed in blood. She not only has to wash off the blood, she has to strip down and take a bath to wash off all the blood. The sink just wouldn't do. Guess what happened to her.

A number of people have already been murdered and they know about it. But yet 2 people just can't resist each other and have to have sex. They are so loud, everybody hears it. I've heard of strong sex drives, but this is ridiculous. Wasn't too hard for the killer to find them.

Then you have the mechanic. He can fix the tractor so they can get out of the school (no one is strong enough to break a window). So rather than everyone stay together while he fixes it, lets leave him alone so the killer can do his thing. Again, they know a killer is in the school.

The killer just killed everybody I know, so when I knock him down with a baseball bat, I'll just drop the bat and run. Oh yeah, I'm lucky enough to knock the killer down again, but this time I'll leave him a better weapon, a javelin. You think she made it? Constantly, people going off on their own, rather than staying in a group. Plus the killer wears a jester mask that has bells on it. Yet he can constantly sneak up on people without them hearing him.

I could go on and on. The one thing this movie got right was the casting of the nerd. Its unfortunate that his life was cut short in real life.

This is definitely a movie you need to watch with a few beers in you. The movie will make you feel like a genius.

This movie was all over the place, unfortunately mostly bad places. It starts off OK, 2 friends enter a warehouse and hear a séance. I don't know about you, but if I broken into a warehouse and witnessed a spooky séance going on, I'm getting out of Dodge, not telling my friend, that I'll continue to watch why he gets his tires. Plus, they talk so loud, how did the séance people not hear them? Of course one of them dies, which sadly was the best kill of the movie, the other leaves and the subplot of the séance just disappears. Like I said, this movie is all over the place.

After the beginning, many people are introduced and are never seen again or have nothing to do with the plot. The main couple have no chemistry and the boyfriend's acting is as stiff as the corpses in this film. He has a scene where he doesn't leave the mortuary embalming room and keeps looking at the embalming going on because the chick is hot, just moronic. Christopher George tells him to leave before he embalms him. Christopher George is his usual self, always grinning like he's saying I'm getting a paycheck for this trash. His scenes are hilarious, just like they all were in the last 7 years of his movies.

Also, after the beginning, the movie becomes way tedious, with the killer constantly stalking the lead actress and nothing really happening. Just a yawn fest. As for the ending, the lamest kill of the killer. Also, the supposed shocker "the mother isn't dead" as she gets up to stab the couple was just plain stupid. I wish they would have shown the couple get killed. That would increase it to 4 rating.

The highlight of this film by a landslide is seeing Bill Paxton, who has a crush on the lead actress, give her a rose at the cemetery, and so overcome with joy, starts skipping thru the cemetery in the most hilarious fashion. This scene you have to watch. You will laugh and laugh again. Its the most and only memorable scene in this movie!

The first 25 minutes of this movie was great. It starts off with an intense beginning which lead to the movie's best kill (unfortunately). Then we get introduced to the cast which has some very corny dialogue (hilarious) with some nice nude scenes. Everything was great till the boat wrecked. Then it just became boooooring.

This is a slasher movie where the killer had not one good kill! We never get a good look at he killer's face! We know he is deformed but I guess it wasn't in the budget for good makeup effects. The score was weak and the jazz music at the start and end of the film was an extremely poor choice. Also, the many night scenes were too dark to see anything and was more annoying than scary. Finally, the pacing/editing in the last hour just dreadful. It seemed like it was a 3 hour movie for that last hour. They just dragged things out to get a 90 minute run time.

In summary, first 25 minutes were awesome, last hour slow and boring. 7 total kills and only the 1st kill by the mother was good, the rest were lame. Poor score and editing also. This is one slasher you can skip.

I love the look of films from this time period. This is another take on poisoning the environment that leads to nature fighting back (ex. Empire of the Ants, Squirm, Ants, Kingdom of the Spiders, Day of the Animals, etc.).

The movie starts off good enough, but unlike Jaws when it was horrifying when you first saw the shark, this movie has the opposite effect when the grizzly bear is revealed. The bear is too fakish to scare. It looks like it has no skin and should have died of an infection a long time ago. But since the bear looks terrible, it makes the end of the movie disappointing and not terrifying like Jaws was.

Other problems: For an Indian tribe ingesting mercury all this time, not one Indian showed any deformity of any kind in the village (effects dept. ran out of money?).

Why did Foxworth need the 2 cubs to prove the poisoning? Couldn't he used the giant tadpole or catch one of the giant salmon to prove it? It sure would have been more safe than dealing with Mama bear.

The movie showed other animals became aggressive like the raccoon (how did Foxworth know it wasn't rabid?) Why weren't there other attacks by other animals on people? Would've made the movie better.

How was Talia Shire happy in the end when her cello got destroyed? And when she played the cello, why didn't one of the insane animals attack her? The paper mill owner never reached the tower to radio for help, so how did the plane know to come the next day to pick up the survivors? What talent agent believed Armand Assante would pass for an Indian? With mercury in the ground at the mill, how did none of the workers get sick or have deformed kids? If I saw a salmon the size of Jaws out in the lake, I would quickly get back to shore and report right away! Not keep fishing like the Dr.

How did the bear know to destroy the car so no one could drive away? All those guns at the camp in the end and not one able to shoot the bear? But yet the Dr, the most unskilled shooter gets 2 shots off into the bear. Also, the bear dies from being stabbed numerous times in the face by an arrow? Really? That bear would've of crushed him in a second.

With that bear mutilating its victims, how do the authorities believe its the Indians r doing the killing? Wasn't it plain, even back then, when someone gets killed by an animal? Funniest part: Dr going on and on and on and on and on about the effects of mercury to a fetus. Classic! In conclusion, with today's advancement in effects and with an R rating, this could easily be remade into a much better, scarier, and effective movie.

His previous gangster movie "The Town" wasn't bad, so with experience already making a gangster flick, and this time in the 30s, I was very excited to watch Live by Night. Well, the only positive thing I can say are the beautiful set pieces. Everything else totally stunk. Its definitely no classic, and doesn't even come remotely close to The Town.

It seems like Ben is in love with himself, as he's in almost every scene, mumbling his lines. He gives Steven Seagal a run for his money for most soft spoken. Affleck is boring, the pace moves at the speed of a turtle, all the other actors only gets a few scenes and none of them are memorable. The love scenes lack passion and worst of all, the violence lacks excitement. It has the most dullest shootouts of any gangster movie I can recall. I couldn't wait for this movie to end.

I don't know what happened with Ben, as he wrote, directed, produced, and starred in it, but he didn't bring his A game, he brought his P (pathetic) game instead.

Let's face it, most people watch Seagal to see him fight. The story is always the same, he's the best in whatever agency he's in, he always picks his own team, and beats the bad guy(s). We know the story, but we watch him for his fights.

Unfortunately, he hardly fights anymore. He put out 6 movies this year and there was not one good fight scene. The last good fight scene he did was against the Russian in Driven to Kill. That was in 2009, 7 years ago. Now he just shoots people in the head or the few fight scenes he does are so edited, you don't know who does what.

I know he doesn't have control over how the movie turns out, but he does control the fight scenes. Its become painfully obvious he doesn't care, and I'm done expecting any good fight scenes from him anymore. If you see recent videos on YouTube or photos, you can see he is vastly overweight. How does a 7th degree in Aikido become so undisciplined in diet? How does he accept his pitiful choreographed fight scenes? Another amazing thing with this movie, for the umpteenth time he has sex with a gorgeous woman with his clothes on! This seems like a running joke in all his movies in the last 10 years or so. Director Keoni Waxman, who has directed Seagal at least 7 times, must be having a field day with this joke. Again, Seagal don't seem to get it.

In conclusion, there are no good fight scenes and this is not the action star of 20 years ago. The only scene worth watching is the sex scene for the comedy and actress Jemma Dallender fit physique. I hope she got compensated well.

The most memorable scene in this episode is when Paladin punches Barry Atwater to prevent him from shooting the kid that he doesn't want to kill. Boy did he knock out Barry. Barry didn't know what time zone he was in. He needed a lot of help to get back on the horse and still was super wobbly. The whole scene was hilarious. And what's more amazing, Paladin still got his $1000 fee!

The gunfight scene at the end was underwhelming. It was sad to read that Tom Pittman who played the boy died shortly after this from an auto accident.

Adam Williams plays the baddie. There was no love lost when he gets killed. The actress who was going to marry him got over him very quickly, even though the day before Cupid was controlling her.

First off, the acting is atrocious. The guy that lost his girlfriend was so annoying. This movie is his only credit and should be for life. The rest of the cast has no more than 6 credits, and that includes numerous shorts. No real actors or talent here. The fight scenes are what you expect during rehearsals, that's how bad they look. No one is convincing, the group of 5 friends or the bikers. The townspeople is hard to tell, they never take off their potato sack masks.

I kept watching thinking maybe the effects would be good. Not at all. This is something you would expect from a high school student or earlier. There's a hilarious scene where the one friend is screaming over and over from getting tortured and yet his friends act like they don't hear anything, yet you as the viewer clearly hear his screams. Its that comical.

I gave it a 2 because somehow I sat thru this whole movie. Nothing is explained and it never gets good. Trust me and stay away.

It amazes me that Jaws was made 40 years ago and its still the best shark movie ever made, even though effects have come a long way since then. While Jaws did everything right, this movie did everything wrong. With Dolph Lungren in this movie, I thought at least the special effects would be good. They are atrocious! The attacks are atrocious! The suspense is atrocious! And the acting is a bore! If I could have given a zero, I would. Totally forgettable.

One of the worst scenes was a shark barreling into the boat and the effect of water pouring in was laughable. Why did I waste 90 minutes of my life for this. Learn from my mistake and don't do the same.

A lot of bad things happen to people thru out this movie. The town is very depressing and the lead character Jon has as much bad happen to him in this movie as Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson) in all of the 5 Death Wish movies.

Mads Mikkelsen doesn't have the charisma of a John Wayne, Eastwood, or Cooper, but he's adequate as the one man army of revenge. The stand out performance is of the villain Delarue (Jeffrey Dean Morgan). Very convincing and very intimidating. Mikael Persbrandt who plays Jon's brother also puts in a good performance. Eva Green has no lines but looks gorgeous! Darkest scene of the movie is of Delarue killing innocent townsfolk because his brother got killed. Overall a decent revenge western.

2014 has been a pretty week year for horror movies..until clown! This movie has it all! Great effects, acting, story, makeup, unintentional humor, and most of all, its scary! Most horror movies people act pretty stupid, in clown they act believable. The thought of unable to take off a costume is scary. Its unclear if he can go to the bathroom, but we hear his stomach grumbling quite a bit.

Its hilarious when Stormware's character says "Oh sh--!" b/c the clown is waking up from being drugged too quickly. The death of the pet dog is a great effect as well as scary. The effects of the Father turning into a clown are great. All the actors did a great job.

I'm not sure why this didn't get a wide release at the theaters. Maybe because its very dark. But if your into scary, dark horror movies then sit back and enjoy. A movie like this has been long overdue.

I give this movie a 2 out of 10 just because it was mercifully short and I also liked the dynamic between the 2 brothers. But believe me, this movie stinks. This movie has been done numerous times where the assassin falls in love with his target and can't kill her. The huge problem here is the chemistry between the assassin and the female he falls for. There is absolutely no chemistry here at all. There is not one reason why either would be madly in love with the other. It is so bad it destroys this film, you just don't care about either of them.

Also, there is not one good action scene or line thru out the whole movie. Even though I found the brothers interesting, they were not menacing villains. It fact, no one was. Though when his girlfriend does get killed, the assassin does dish out revenge very quickly. I think all the main players were killed within 2-3 minutes(in different places). No tension whatsoever and way too easy for the assassin. The ending is a yawner. This movie is a bore, don't waste your time.

I read in the trivia section and it stated that Statham ate only spinach and brown rice to stay lean. Really? No protein and he looks that good. I thought protein was vital for muscle mass. What am I missing? Anyway, Statham is like Seagal in this movie, except his moves are more powerful and he doesn't need a stunt double in his fight scenes. Statham does get hit a few times, but like Seagal, it doesn't faze him. The fight scenes are what make this movie. The gambling part is quite boring.

Also to note, Milo who played Rocky's son in Rocky Balboa, really built himself up, as he displayed quality muscle mass. I wonder if him and Statham worked out together. I wonder if he just ate spinach and brown rice also to be lean?

Basically this is a boogeyman movie, as Kane is everywhere. He knows the place better than the workers. And he's at places that realistically he couldn't be before the victims.

And yes, the characters are stupid. For instance, when they find out the 300lb+ killer is alive, not one of them pick up weapons to defend themselves. Wait, let me correct myself. The brother does pick up a weapon. With all of the big weapons to choose from he picks the smallest scalpel to defend himself. (Totally hilarious) Of course you know it won't work against Kane.

Despite all the clichés and stupidity, I still enjoyed it. It lacks a signature kill, but I loved the soundtrack and it kept my interest. My biggest question was how did Seth stay alive till the end. He only carried a flashlight thru out the film, thinking it would keep him and his love (Daniele Harris who looks great) safe. You wanna predict how that worked out for them?

When I recognized the first 3 actors in this cast, Mischa Barton, Billy Zane, and Dee Wallace, I thought there must be a decent attempt at making a good zombie movie. Wrong! All 3 had forgettable performances and the only shocking thing (not really because I didn't care) was all 3 died before the final 10 minutes (not counting the credits).

Some of the main ingredients for a good zombie film are good-looking gory zombies, special effects, people getting eaten, and ZOMBIES! There's hardly any zombies till the end of the movie, and you hardly see any of them up close. The ones you do are lame. The worst looking zombie in The Walking Dead is far superior to any zombie in this movie. The makeup stinks, effects are non-existent (except for lame headshots), and not one good zombie munching scene.

This movie is boring and lacks any qualities of a good zombie movie. Bad acting performances all around, but the worst by a landslide is Michael Kean. The guy can't act and he's annoying. I would've given this movie 2 stars if he got killed. The doc played by Brian Anthony Wilson looks like Uncle Phil from the Prince of Bel-Air. This movie is only for hardcore zombie fans who will waste 90 minutes of their life.

This is the typical highly skilled trained team of killers, one has a conscious, is left for dead by the rest of the group, but guess what, he's not dead. Oh yeah, they killed his wife. So he seeks out the rest of the team for revenge, taking with him his baby son, who's crying every other minute in the movie.

You watch a movie like this for the action, which is a total stinker. Guys throwing their punches in slo mo as to not hurt the other actor. Its dreadful. None of the fight scenes are any good. Also, the lead actor gets stabbed thru the center of the chest (heart?) not once, but twice thru out the movie. The second time he's immediately walking away with his son like it was nothing. The movie is mercifully short but don't waste your time.

For almost any movie to work, you have to like the lead actor. I couldn't stand him. All he did was grunt and say the same things like "Where is she?" and "I've been waiting 10 years for this." This movie is a straight revenge movie that lacks any suspense.

The lead actor easily handles everybody. He gets shot and stabbed, no problem. He's like a cyborg, nothing affects him. A number of times the bad guys get the drop on him with their gun. But rather than shoot the big bastard, noooooo, let's fight it out.

That's another thing, poorly staged fight scenes. They are worse than what Steven Seagal fight scenes have been the past decade. Also, its the old cliché that he never misses shooting someone, but the others can't hit a 6'7" 300 lb guy from 10 ft away. This movie fails at so many levels. The best thing about this movie is its short, credits roll at 72 minutes.

Typical end of the world movie that uses dinosaurs, mainly the raptors. Where as in Jurassic Park they were scary and menacing with top notch effects, here they are cartoonish to the point you can't take them seriously. Hence, this leads to a lack of any suspense thru out the movie.

When you witness the first kill by a raptor within the first 5 minutes of the movie, you see how cartoonish the whole movie will be. Even the blood is cartoonish. I felt like I was watching something like Song of the South which mixed in live actors with animated characters/background. This was the opposite, live actors/background with animated raptors. I know this is a low budget, but if you can't get it right, then don't do it.

Most of the actors fulfill various stereotypes and the performances are not worth writing about. Though it was nice seeing veteran actors Ray Wise and Vernon Wells try to make something out of this comedy.

This movie had 2 major flaws; it was very slow moving/boring and had all uninteresting characters. Tom Hardy's character was a complete bore. His love story just did not click. I was hoping at the end someone would just blow up the bar and everyone in it. I had high expectations with the cast, but this movie was a snoozefest. Not one character performance stood out, not one classic line or action scene. The only adorable scene was saving the puppy. I'm not surprised now that this didn't get any academy nominations. It doesn't deserve your time.

Tom Hardy kept saying "Excuse me". There's no excuse with the talent behind this movie for it to be a boring, utter mess.

4 people go into the jungle and just do brutal acts to the tribal people with the motive they think they will become millionaires because people want to see them bully the tribes, take their food, burn down their houses, burn natives alive, kill natives, rape natives, etc. I don't think so. Some of the acts of violence just drag on. It reminds me of movies like Last House on the Left and I Spit On Your Grave. Like those 2 movies, this movie is not scary at all and lacks any suspense. Its just repulsive and that's not horror.

This movie drags big time. Editing stinks as they show everything. Not sure why so many people like this, slow moving movie in the jungle is not my thing.

The things I did like, the musical score you hear at the beginning and end and at times thru out the movie is a great tune. Also, the last 5-10 minutes when the people start getting their "just desserts" by the natives looks pretty realistic. Those moronic characters got what was coming to them.

I am not a fan of M. Night Shyamalan, as I find his movies move tortuously slow. J. C. Chandor (director) is like Shyamalan in the crime drama department. This movie just moved soooo slow. It seemed to have a 10 hour run time. This movie dragged bigtime. I didn't care about any of the characters, and felt zero suspense/drama thru out the film.

This movie reminds me of the horror movie "The Blair Witch Project". In that movie, you kept thinking something was going to happen to the characters, but very little does. This movie is the same way, very little action/violence occur. (though you keep expecting that it will pick up) When it does occur, its done so poorly you just don't care. At least Blair Witch Project was loaded with suspense (on the first viewing, it doesn't hold up well on subsequent viewings after knowing what happens).

People will get reeled in to watch this movie because of the title (I did). But this movie won't be remembered 5 years down the road. Not one above average line, no interesting character, not one half descent scene. Some movies are good/great, some are so bad they are amusing/funny. But this is the worst kind of movie, a complete bore!

The first 5 minutes reeled me in thinking that this might be OK. It wasn't. It took a nosedive and kept on diving. So many clichés, moronic characters, and worst of all, an unscary killer.

There was absolutely no horror, suspense, or tension building scenes. The only way to enjoy this movie is in a drunken stupor.

What was up with Timmy? Where did he live? Where was his parents? Timmy heard the bomb and called the police, but yet his parents still let him go up alone? How did Timmy survive all this time? Really, who cares? This movie doesn't deserve anymore attention and I definitely won't see Desecrated 2 (yes, the ending leaves that boring possibility open).