Reviews

I bought this movie on a pure whim of decent premise. The back eludes to neither pro or anti-bush, and even quotes how it's made for "thinkers". This is all garbage.

Basically, you're gonna assume it'll start off with Bush getting picked off somehow by some dubious fellow, and move onto an intriguing "what-if" scenario. Questions riddled my head, "wonder what Chaney would do much different?", "how would the U.S. really respond?", "what would become of Bush's course of actions?", "what would happen in 2008? 2018? 2050?", "how would the rest of the world view this?".

But forget all that, you're set on a journey of 30% anti-Bush protests news clips before death, 60% forensic "whodunit", 10% no freedom wagon.

Firstly, this movie is overwhelmingly anti-Bush with the only pro-remarks coming from his speech writer (all mainly personal, not political). Second, this is NOT a political movie, it's a murder mystery you don't care about because it didn't happen.

Even when it mentioned Chaney moving up to presidency I perked up for a moment, as if the opening credits ended and the movie were about to begin, but no, no, back to some fictional trial with a bunch of malarkey about evidence. It's fictional, make overwhelming evidence, make the assassin found dead, and give us a political yarn to unravel.

This movie deserves to be protested, shot, then put on fictional trial before we all come together and whine about crappy movies.

I've seen some really bad B-Films--pornographic, shaky cam, dubbed and redubbed, poor actors off the street, and sheer "youtube" better than this.

Firstly, it doesn't try to be a B-film, so you won't find the "plan B" humor at all.

Secondly, this isn't a horror film, it's drama. Minute to minute comparison is vastly swayed toward the two brothers' whining, the two girls' sexual needs, and one out of place black guy along for the drama. Seriously, how many classic horror films have this? -Halloween, no -Friday the 13th, no -Nightmare on Elm St., no -Nosferatu, no -Night of the Living Dead, no -etc, etc, etc...

Anyways, back to the real review.

Third, the actors were portrayed as "intelligent", yet stray far from the idea. Countless examples of never barricading, arming, or planning. Instead, it was whining and drama until a dog showed up; a shock to be sure, heh.

Fourth, no reaction to their close friends' deaths.

Fifth, Cujo rip offs, never close to the original chills.

Sixth, "They chewed through the ropes on purpose!" <- That line alone makes the movie terrible in my opinion.

Eh, too much more to be said about this. So, I'll leave with this:

=AVOID=

Go see: Cujo, The Birds, or even the upcoming Black Sheep.

Many fans got to see the first two movies of the trilogy through fansubs, but upon licensing, were left out on the final movie.

The same highlights of the first two movies are here as well, cleaned up and/or redone animation, some new soundtracks (primarily the opening and ending songs).

The story continues where II left off, Hamaan and the Neo-Zeon (though their name isn't established until ZZ) show up and begin negotiations with Char and the AEUG. In an attempt to re-establish the Principality of Zeon with a new heir, they've dragged the asteroid Axis along for the ride (filled with nuclear weapons and a fleet of new ships and advanced mobile suits). As if this wasn't enough, Scirocco begins his coup against the Titans, and all four factions (including the AEUG) struggle for dominance in their beliefs for the future of the Earth Sphere at the Gryps colony area.

As the movie progresses, it gets complicated. Alliances are made and broken by not only the four factions, but several characters as well. With the already set fast paced, the viewer can expect to see two characters fighting together, then fighting each other every 5-10mins. Normally, this course of events would take several episodes to accomplish, and allow a feeling of time passing by, but this isn't the case. Also, with the fast paced action, Titan and Scirocco ace pilots have a new mobile suit in every battle. It becomes hard to distinguish who's who and who's fighting who very quickly unless you've seen the original series. The original trilogy (0079) faced the same problem, but it wasn't nearly as bad as this. It took time to build up why each suit was greater than the last. The Gouf was found to be a stronger though much different form of the massly used Zaku II; the Doms were first introduced through the Tristars before seen as mass produced in the third movie; and even Char's constantly changing suits weren't too hard to keep up with (Zaku S->z'Gok->Gelgoog->Zeong). In Zeta though, it's much different.

Also, in the original series, large plot battles showed more emphasis on Amuro fighting common enemy pilots and ships before dog fighting his rival. In this movie, you can expect to see Camille launch, fire a salvo of missing shots, and watch the rival retreat; over and over again. Though the movie is heavily action oriented, I felt bored watching my "heros" launch, and chase other mobile suits all over the battle field, then retreat. To make the final battles more enticing, instead of the usual missed shots and retreat, another pilot would get killed before the enemy's retreat. Just once, I wanted to see Char and Camille go out and destroy a fleet of commons before the enemy aces could show up, as Amuro originally did.

In the end though, it holds as a good movie after getting through some serious chaos. I must admit, it made me anxious to see ZZ because it does end on almost a "to be continued..." note.

In summation, be prepared for some fast paced chaos, and several boring battles, but in the end a solid gundam classic.

Also, I compared much of A New Translation to the original 0079 trilogy due to the same format of 50+ episodes into 3 movies.

I checked this out through MST3K (as most have already pointed out). To tell the truth, I was pretty excited... being a huge Bond fan, and loving the small Bond roles like in OHMSS, but this was worse than B-Film "comedy". Allow me to lay out the plot of this fiasco:

Sneaking dealings arise when Largo/Diabolico surfaces and kidnaps a patient of Dr. Connery. Apparently, Bond's brother (as mentioned by M) is a plastic surgeon with the special ability to hypnotize unsuspecting people Jedi style (within 2-3sec). For some ungodly reason, I suppose the real Bond was busy with more important things (I'd like to think getting plastered on a remote island). So, the MOD hires his brother to discover what's going on.

Before you know it, Dr. Connery is taking out electric fence perimeters with a bow and arrow, showgirls in the middle of nowhere manage to take out an army convoy, and blind Arabs are weaving radioactive carpets. One may wonder where this will lead, well, Largo manages to unleash an EMP (they just called it a magnet) on a small mountain town in the Alps. At this point, I'm sure nobody would care, but no, a squad of horsemen with bows and arrows somehow appear and storm the enemy base.

In the end, the day is saved by the dud, and he settles in by somehow managing to get a whole ship of women under his charm (more mind tricks I'm sure cause the desperate brother couldn't con his right hand into charm).

Q, or someone pretending to be him, never makes an appearance, but you can expect three fine spy gadgets in this film: a bow with a spool, a knife that shoots its blade(used by a female villain, and also may I add a useless weapon compared to say... a gun), and a belt that becomes stiff for throwing as a javelin *rolls eyes*.

Any Bond fan should vier away from ever being disgusted by this movie.

As other commenters said, it's hard to relate to this film unless you've been in the users' situation. In my case, I'm in the center of a bunch of users. This film moreorless glamorizes the drug Meth, until it get towards the end. It is a little unrealistic in some scenes, but overall the idea of being spun and doing absolutely nothing constructive is very realistic. The soundtrack to this is A+, I wish they'd release it.

The actors are all amazing, and I'd say at their best in this.

The story isn't really the most fantastic thing you'll find, but what is really fantastic about getting high of chemicals?

The directing was phenomenal! It's amazing what you'll pick up every time you'll watch it. Any indie film lover will begin pointing out film-geek things like the symbolism of the car. A run down dumpy Volvo that is an ongoing symbol of the main character. Just overworked, clocking mileage, and always getting dinged up here and there... stuff like that.

This looks like a pretty promising movie. I'm looking at the promotions with Tarintino's brand, reviews for being terrifying, and people be taken out of the theaters. The idea of being able to pay to kill someone however you want was interesting and could've made a fantastic movie... sadly this isn't it. When we popped the DVD in, I knew it was going to be bad in the first 5min. 3 guys, in Europe, looking for the almighty sex. How many poor horror films in the last decade have started with this premise!? I thought it'd get better, but for the first half, I was just watching a really poor porno film, with music to boot. When the gore finally came, I found myself laughing uncontrollably rather than even beginning to be scared or creeped out. The ONLY part of this movie I remotely enjoyed were the group of kids straight out of Oliver Twist romping the life out of the pursuers. I got a kick out of that.

Unless you're a huge fan of Fangoria, B-Film, Blood, and Gore movies please please skip this. Even for those people that get kicks out of seeing boobs and sex, get a porn and watch that instead while waiting for a better horror film to come out. Chances are, the story and action will be a lot better in the porn...