Molly (II) (2017) User Reviews

Really not that bad!

[nedraikhumen · 5/10 · 30 October 2018]

It really is not that bad. With the budget they had, it was surprisingly watchable.

Obviously the 8+ ratings on this movie are from shills. Not a watchable movie

[bradleyniven · 3/10 · 28 September 2018]

It feels like the kids that work at the haunted house got bored and made a movie. Dont fall for the bs reviews how this is a modern mad max. Its a solid 5 movie thats hard to watch from such terrible acting and awkward pauses.

Oh, hi, Mark.

Not very good

[gradylester · 4/10 · 10 October 2018]

I love how these ravenous flesh eating people have perfect white teeth. The acting in this movie is terrible. I understand it's low budget but still..I wish I didn't spend money to see this. I'm actually still watching it. That's how bad it is. While I'm watching this I looked up reviews to see if other people feel like I do.

When a bunch of amateur filmmakers decide to make a film, a 5th grader can do better.

[Top_Dawg_Critic · 2/10 · 1 October 2018]

I've heard enough whining/whimpering sounds from a teenager in this film to last me 2 years. What was the point of this film? Most of this film is irrelevant dragged out ridiculous fighting scenes with the worst choreography I have ever seen.

A teen girl named Molly has this deadly power simply by yelling/screaming, yet only uses it a few times, but instead she manages to beat up/kill every adult 3x-plus her size and weight throughout most of the film - and makes constant whimpering sounds in doing so. 75% of this films dialogue is her whining when fighting, walking and breathing. The other 25% is the lamest dialogue you have ever heard. Who wrote this garbage?

And the the horrible acting by everyone else in this film... total amateur hour! The directing was such a mess that even two directors Colinda Bongers and Thijs Meuwese didn't even know how to hold the camera. Fake schoolyard fighting with half the choreography missing! Scene shots with the bottom have of a relevant scene missing. I could go on and on.

This film had the dumbest plot to go with the worst writing, lamest acting and atrocious directing I have ever seen. This seems like the worst high school drama class won the lottery and made this garbage. We don't know how Molly got her power, and we see some irrelevant flashbacks that don't conclude.

I get this is a low budget film, but where did any budget go towards? It wasn't the acting, choreography, wardrobe, effects, writing, directing, editing or sound... I'd say $100 maybe towards some 1970's robotic arm and some green "quarantine" tape. I've seen an entire film made in a phone booth that was Oscar worthy.

Ignore all the fake reviews above a 5 and don't waste your time with this horrendous mess. I give it an honest 2/10 only for decent cinematography.. that's it!

Excellent post-apocalyptic violence

[mflanagan6326 · 7 October 2018]

Mad Max Fury Road meets Resident Evil in a very well done low budget film. Some of the most realistic fight scenes I've seen. A little thin on dialogue but the simple story does not require much. More fighting than acting and that carries the movie quite well. The lead actress makes the Energizer Bunny look lazy.

Wow

[robertrangihuna-70259 · 2/10 · 9 October 2018]

I started watching this movie because there were some good reviews (obviously fake), but only managed to hang in there for about 30 min. Dunno, it might have gotten better, but how anyone could rate it over 5 is beyond me. Each to their own I suppose. Poor acting and a terrible story-line.

It's bad

[martidis · 3/10 · 11 October 2018]

This is basically an action movie. However, the action scenes are not convincing at all. At some points it made me laugh. The main actor is pretty though.

This movie will test your patience

[ledryno · 2/10 · 18 June 2019]

Not much of a plot. Not much dialogue. Pathetic fight sequences.

In some sort of post-war or post-disaster wasteland stands this lone girl - just trying to stay alive. She wanders around looking for food while protecting herself from other scavengers who would rob/hurt her. Something about her is special and one scene suggested she was the unwilling subject of an experiment. A local boss learns of her and wants her captured to participate in his cage fighting matches. But be careful because you may get what you want!

I kept waiting for something interesting to happen. Nothing interesting happened until the very last scene. I won't say what happened, just in case you decide to watch this movie but I urge you not to waste 91 minutes of your time to see the 92nd minute at movie's end. It's not worth it.

So bad. So boring. Soooooo bad.

[isabelstamarta · 2/10 · 11 October 2018]

If you've read the 2 sentence synopsis, you've read the whole script. Awesomely bad fighting (besides totally absurd), no story, almost no dialogues. I'm not even commenting the acting. The one kind of decent actor is a guy that has like 3 lines. I was so numbed and bored I couldn't stop watching: is this for real?! Nah, something's gonna happen.This was my attitude until the end.Now I just feel insulted. I did not believe during the movie but now I do: there are actually people making movies just to see if they can waste someone's time and mock them.

A tiny budget post-apocalypse entertaining story with an unlikely hero

[LuckyLuigi · 7/10 · 16 April 2017]

I hadn't actually planned to watch this but accidentally got mixed up in the world premiere by mistake. So it goes.

The movie follows an unlikely post-apocalyptic hero, not a dashing Mel Gibson, or a long-legged Nikita, but a normal looking girl called Molly, who nevertheless proves endlessly resourceful and unexpectedly gifted in surviving the 'wasteland', which I guess is probably the old WWII German bunker ridden Dutch coastline. This is immediately the best part of the film, our bumbling heroine who stubbornly refuses to die, and carries the movie almost singlehandedly.

There are some other actors who make a good contribution, the black chap and the robot-arm girl especially, but for the rest its not high quality. We're talking C-movie level here so this is to be expected. The few special effects were unexpectedly good. What I especially loved about Molly were the realistic (and thus very messy) fights.

We're not about to win Oscars here but given what the makers had to work with I am quite impressed. I am wondering how Brits and Americans will copy with Dutch-accented English. I have no idea what they will make of it.

If you like Mad Max movies or Turbo Kid you will enjoy this.

Full of holes

[fatboydale · 2/10 · 2 November 2018]

Low budget amateurish acting, I watched the whole way through hoping it would get better, it didn't... if I'm honest I watched it for the beautiful lead actress....while she did some good action fighting scenes, the movie had no decent continuity...2-10.

Everything a low budget B-movie should be

[dave-930-756001 · 8/10 · 13 October 2018]

B-movie heaven.

Bad acting, hysterical accents, nonsensical plot, terrible fight sequences (I feel ike they did them in slow mo and then sped up the film to normal speed), totally unbelievable lead (but hey, shes cute), I'm literally finding it impossible to say anything bad about this movie.. its ridiculous.

I think you either "get" what this film is trying to achieve or you don't. If you do you will love it. I got it. Best B-movie I have seen since "They Live" (and the overly long, crazily choreographed fight scenes reminded me very much of that)

Hey! get your friends, I found a camera!

[jayg_58 · 6/10 · 9 October 2018]

Very colorfully filmed on what may be a beach in South Africa (well, they're Dutch anyway). Acting like a college theatre department staging a play... with no real actors, amateurish everything - costumes, make-up - no script to speak of. Some of the most hysterically bad fight choreography I've ever seen. Done at full speed, but appears like slo-mo. The absolute unreality of it all had me transfixed. It fell right into the 'so bad it's good' genre, but it set up a sequel. Please, no. This one was enough fun for the decade.

The girl from the stories

[nogodnomasters · 5/10 · 15 October 2018]

It is a few years into an unnamed apocalypse. Bullets are the only currency, not gold and silver. So eat it, Ron Paul. There is a community with battles of supplicants called "Thunderland" with no apologies "Mad Max." Supplicants are chemically induced berserk fighters.

The film centers on Molly (Julia Batelaan) a loner and scavenger. She has flashbacks to where she was experimented upon and escaped from...? She looks like she was part of the Ester Blueburger fight club.

The basic plot is to capture Molly and make her into an unbeatable supplicant fighter.

The fight choreography was slow, awkward, and at times a laugh. Molly fights all the time and only once loses her glasses. Seriously, no one who wanted to kill her punched her in her glasses. She was not credible pinning a person down and giving them headbutts. I guess nerdy girls need pit bull role models too.

The ending leads us to believe there will be another one.

Guide: Brief nudity (Julia Batelaan) No sex. No swearing that I recall.

A raw look at the end of the world

[BandSAboutMovies · 23 September 2018]

We've spent plenty of time learning how the Australians and Italians see the end of the world in cinema on this site. But have you ever wondered how the Dutch envision the world post-apocalypse? Wonder no longer - Molly is here.

Our titular heroine (Julia Batelaan) has incredible fighting skills - owing as much to her stamina as her striking abilities - and supernatural powers that have kept her alive in the teaming wastelands. But now, the powers that be in charge of the Thunderland fight club are on the hunt for her. Their champion, The Truth, was defeated in combat and they want the one called The Girl to be their new star. And their leader, Deacon, wants to infect her with the zombie-like disease that he uses to keep everyone under his control. And once he kidnaps Bailey, the girl that Molly has pledged to protect, a confrontation between the two is inevitable.

What really struck me about this film is the way the fight scenes are presented. They're not gorgeous ballets filled with flashy bits of action. No, they're down and dirty skirmishes, with Molly often emerging because she has more heart than anyone else. Between the innovative camera work and use of colors, the film's low budget doesn't distract. And it's not played for laughs like Turbo Kid, a movie I've seen many reviewers compare it to.

I'll be on the lookout for more from creators Colinda Bongers and Thijs Meuwese. The end of the film sets up a sequel and they're already working on a prequel to this movie called Kill Mode.

Ugh

[kirachloe · 3/10 · 20 September 2023]

I will always give credit where credit is due, hence why I see this as a 3 star .. although that might be generous.

So a few of the actors were actually good, and it appears several of the A FEW of the people behind the scenes knew what they were doing. But everything from the scripts to the scene staging were, well ugh.

I usually avoid commenting on other reviews, but I have to comment on the plethora of comments about how they admit the film has issue, and the fight scenes have major issues, but it was meant to be 'fun', so give the film a high rating??? That makes NO sense. Yes, a movie can be fun AND have high ratings, but you have to get the rest of the things right. And there a lot of good examples out there. Being poorly implemented but having fun so giving it a high rating is what we do for grade schoolers, not adult filmmakers.

Mandy (2018) Meets Becky (2020) And It Doesn't Work.

[Ohiri- · 4/10 · 15 August 2023]

As much as I love the games S. T. A. L. K. E. R. And the many Fallouts (not you 76) and what this tries to emulate from those, you can't just make a movie about that. This is almost a little inventory simulator film of sorts, the opening bit is rather interesting I found myself hooked for the first 10 or 15ish.

Nearly no music to speak of and a strange Mad Max/RAGE post apocalypse that's basically nothing and pushed to the side. There's some zombie things that fight in a MMA cage match and it is just the whole middle portion. Acting is a huge miss, you'll see better in Steven Seagal's post-goatee MEGAHITS.

I will say it has some great shots, the use of colour is gorgeous but it is not much else other than a PG hash of Mandy (2018) and Becky (2020.)

Stething out hands with sparks coming out of then... Again.

[johan-77905 · 3/10 · 19 January 2019]

Each time a Sci fi movie has nothing better to offer then stretching out hands with sparks flying out you'd have to sheak your head. That's just.... Really?

a solid action movie with some surprisingly good elements

[wyattonline-44144 · 7/10 · 22 August 2020]

OK I like fight action movies. These kind of movies can have plots that are a little weak. This movie has some major plot deficiencies: for example, the villain is stupid rather than threatening, and 10 stunt actors do not make an "army." But on the plus side, the main character Molly is wonderfully designed as a quirky, skinny fighter who has to use her brain. The actress played it straight the whole time, which I also liked. I enjoyed the unpredictability and creativity of the fight scenes, even though they were a little non-standard. A perfect Saturday afternoon movie.

Molly...a truly modern heroine of the Apocalypse.

[Johnny_Mara · 8/10 · 1 February 2020]

I watched this film right after watching Kill Mode (2019) which is the prequel to Molly. In my opinion Molly is a far superior film. Ok, it's low budget but that doesn't negate its value to cinema or its sheer ability to entertain, which for me it definitely did. Julia Batelaan is/was amazing in this film, hats off to the whole cast. I would have loved to have seen this film made on a much larger budget, this movie would have been insanely good being made with a lot more money, a tighter script and more time on fight choreography. Having said that it was so much fun to watch.

I don't really understand those 1 or 2 etc rated reviews.

I loved it, what else is there to say.

So long as you go into this film knowing its not from any major film studio you should be able to thoroughly enjoy 134mins of total joy and mayhem.

Combat & heart in a technicolor wasteland

[twilight_eye13 · 10/10 · 22 February 2018]

Gorgeous production design serves the world building of this colorful Mad Max-esque magical wasteland. The fight choreography feels raw & authentic and isn't edited to bits or obscured by a shaky camera - the camera floats and moves through scenes gracefully, especially an extended fight-for-your-life climax scene that lasts nearly an uninterrupted half hour.

Everyone seems to be having a great time here, which only adds to the audiences enjoyment. I found myself deeply invested & granny widely by the end. The combination of color, action, comedy & the post-apocalyptic setting left me thinking this would be the team to call whenever Hollywood decides to do a live-action Adventure Time adaptation, but regardless of the project, I'm stoked for the next feature from Get Off the Road & Thijs Meuwese.

Molly a match for mad max any day

[pgh2007 · 8/10 · 20 September 2017]

At first I thought,just another post apocalyptic boring film but I actually quite liked it. THE heroine is well played and although not Hollywood standard a damn sight better than a lot of the movies to come out of there lately in fact I preferred it to the pretty bad mad max remake.if you like a heroine that you want to root for and some pretty messy realistic fights.give it a watch you wont waste your time.

Was not going to watch this

[dncorp · 8/10 · 28 September 2018]

Was not going to watch this believing that this was a copy of the 2012 Hunger Games Series which were a copy of previous 1999 Japanese Battle Royale Series that started this Child to teens having to fight for their lives Genre, as previously banned at many Nations like Battle Royale was banned at the U.S., Censors Worldwide objected to the very graphic murders committed by school children.

I also was not going to watch because of the butcher job and insertion of Political nonsense by Netherlander, Paul Verhoeven, into Heinlein's Patriotic "Starship Troopers".

This is a must see to gain a perspective as to what Northern Europeans think. Others that must be seen are 2015 TV Series Okkupert. The same actress, Julia Batelaan, 2012 Magistratus: Overtura and Kill Mode, and for other reasons the Japanese 1999 Battle Royale Series.

Sequel?

I loved this movie, especially for the things people take fault with about it.

[sign1in · 10/10 · 3 March 2021]

Julia is fantastic as Molly, she's no "Mary Sue" that learns the force in one movie that took Luke three movies to figure out. The character obviously has some issues when dealing with people, the fight scene where she stops to clean herself isn't gratuitous nudity, she's hawt, but that's beside the point. Some criticize the fighting, the Molly character hasn't spent her life living in a Dojo studying from a Shaolin Monk, nor is she a Vampire on Buffy that always seemed to develop super kung fu skills after being turned, so her fighting style sucks, that's reality for you. Production values are not great, but if you look at what they do with what they have, the production team did a great job. Remember that show Doctor Who? been around 60+ years. Finally, this movie has the right idea, lets have fun and be entertained, if you want Hollywood dreck hammered out in a series of focus groups, then avoid this movie like the plague.

Fun B Film

[WaitingInLimbo · 8/10 · 21 January 2023]

A Pippy Longstocking like gal stumbles her way through this romp miraculously taking out all in her way. So much fun. Don't expect too much and you'll have a good time.

And about those fight scenes...silly fun. Exactly how you'd play a 99lb girl fighting a bunch of big lugs. It worked for me. But then I love watching ladies take out the big guys.

I think those that complain that the fight scenes aren't realistic love all of those marvel, ninja and action movies. Now those fight scenes are totally realistic!!?! Hahahaha. Some people need a reality check!

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Enjoy.