I'm giving this one a "3" mainly for its curiosity value. Have you ever treated yourself to a really bad movie? A movie that has no plot, for instance? Well, this one goes a bit further than that. It introduces and then ditches so many plots that I stopped counting after seven. Part of the problem undoubtedly is that the producer obviously ran out of money. He did spend up big on special effects and that presumably wiped out the budget. No money for a script-writer, so he was forced to improvise. He doubtless hoped that patrons would go so ga-ga over his library of special effects that no-one would notice that the plot he and/or some lackey made up on the spot, made no sense. Maybe he took suggestions from the players? Maybe he wrote up some scenes with his kids at home? Maybe he asked the watchman at the studio gates? Or more likely, the special effects people? The movie is crowded with special effects, that's for sure. Most of them - indeed probably all of them - make no sense, of course, but who's going to notice? The audience? What audience? The title is all wrong for a starter. What day? What time? What end? It should have been titled: "The Day They Tried To Make a Classy "A" Movie On a "B" budget".
Review of The Day Time Ended
