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500 MPH Storm (2013)
Oh my god.
Unfortunately, there is no score lower than 1. That being said, this is absolutely the worst movie ever, hands down. The acting was non-existent insofar as skill goes, but considering that Starship Troopers was the only other movie I've seen this dude in, I'm not surprised, he sucked then and has just gone downhill. The person who played his wife was worth looking at, but certainly not an actress (Maybe they hired her from the local Sonic Drive-in?). If I was the director or in charge of the cgi (sorry, they wouldn't allow me to cap that), I'd go kill myself rather than be credited. Don't bother watching unless you just want to hurt yourself. If you do watch and make it to the end, look at the scrap cars on the right side, you can see how they were photo shopped in, it's glaringly apparent. Also, early on when they stop on the highway, the vehicles are quite obviously pulled from a scrapyard and no one, not even a brain dead high school teacher would have stopped in that scenario. The dialog, what can I say, I've read better dialog in a first graders journal where they're talking to their favorite toys, at least most first graders show some imagination and that's something that was sorely lacking in this Disaster of a Disaster movie.
Messages Deleted (2010)
Cliché upon cliché
This began as a very good idea, revenge on a plagiarist Professor.
It, however, due to poor direction primarily I believe, turned into a cliché of a bad cliché of murder mysteries. The Protagonist Matthew Lillard as Professor Joel Brandt makes every mistake possible in his dealing with, not only Lavery and Breedlove, but his on again/off again Girlfriend as well as student Millie Counsel and news reporters who could have helped him champion his cause if he'd been a bit less brusque. In situations such as Brandt finds himself, brusqueness is perceived as 'hiding something'. The worst thing he did, from my perspective, is to not tell the investigators about the similarity between his manuscript "Senseless Killings" and the order and names of the victims, that was obvious (to me) the whole thrust of the series of killings. I'm assuming, at this point that he pilfered this idea from a student's work. Although, at the end, while he's discussing the deal with his agent, I was unconvinced that he had not, in reality, committed the crimes. SO I gave it a 7 instead of my original 5. I like tales that make me change my mind at times, much better than figuring the whole thing out before the drop of the first curtain.