Found this digital-video turkey in the local bargain-bin at the supermarket, and despite the terrible looking cover-art, I decided to throw it in my basket and check it out. Sometimes the most random finds can turn out to be proper gems - this sadly, wasn't! :(
The story evolves around 4 undercover policemen, who are sick and tired of local gangbangers (most of them apparently played by some inferior C-grade rappers), and then they decide to take it upon themselves to wipe them out - vigilante cop style! Yeah!
Although the plot sounds o-kay, the actual execution of the story is terrible. I know the movie is super-low budget, but it seems like some other reviewers thinks it automatically gives the makers of this extra credit, just because they didn't spend a dime on making it. Guys like Uwe Boll and Albert Pyun has made movies at almost-zero budgets, which were - also - supercheap looking (some of their movies really suck balls), but at least you felt some passion, or there was an actor that gave a good performance or something.
Here all you get is some bald guys with zero charisma going around shooting random baddies we've never seen before (or really heard of), so there's absolutely no connection or sympathy for the "heroes" at all, or what they're doing. The best performance comes from the hired bad guy hitman (seemingly played by a kid straight out of a high school theatre class), which is saying more about the other guys than him.
Imagine a bunch of poorman's Vin Diesel-types delivering the most generic dialogue you will ever hear, all wearing the same clothes and talking the same way. Insert some random black rappers that get shot now and then, plus a hitman that hasn't had his pubes yet. All shot on cheap digital video, and spiced up with windows movie-maker special effects on top. Then you have this movie in a nutshell.
The story evolves around 4 undercover policemen, who are sick and tired of local gangbangers (most of them apparently played by some inferior C-grade rappers), and then they decide to take it upon themselves to wipe them out - vigilante cop style! Yeah!
Although the plot sounds o-kay, the actual execution of the story is terrible. I know the movie is super-low budget, but it seems like some other reviewers thinks it automatically gives the makers of this extra credit, just because they didn't spend a dime on making it. Guys like Uwe Boll and Albert Pyun has made movies at almost-zero budgets, which were - also - supercheap looking (some of their movies really suck balls), but at least you felt some passion, or there was an actor that gave a good performance or something.
Here all you get is some bald guys with zero charisma going around shooting random baddies we've never seen before (or really heard of), so there's absolutely no connection or sympathy for the "heroes" at all, or what they're doing. The best performance comes from the hired bad guy hitman (seemingly played by a kid straight out of a high school theatre class), which is saying more about the other guys than him.
Imagine a bunch of poorman's Vin Diesel-types delivering the most generic dialogue you will ever hear, all wearing the same clothes and talking the same way. Insert some random black rappers that get shot now and then, plus a hitman that hasn't had his pubes yet. All shot on cheap digital video, and spiced up with windows movie-maker special effects on top. Then you have this movie in a nutshell.