MxSChizo Reviews

Equilibrium (2002)

A masterpiece with one negligible flaw.

[8/10 · 31 October 2005]

Sitting here at this screen I'm trying to think of where to begin. The beginning seems most suitable, where it appears from the start how this is an action movie of exquisite quality.

Realistic, down to Earth action with actual tactics and of course the unstoppable force of a Cleric, however I'll stop before I start drooling and cut right to what makes this movie as great as it is. The emotional depth, powered by an excellent script, outstanding dialogue and choreography, and commendable acting of Christian Bale, are a rarity in the movie scene, and beautifully coincides with the worked out details of the society portrayed in this flick. Reminding me of WWII, the resistance is worked out quite nicely, however it doesn't even begin to describe how wonderfully Preston's gradual revelation, the rebirth of his soul, is played out - In an action movie!

However, this movie gets an eight from me, of course the tag-line "If you liked the Matrix, you'll love this!" is ridiculous and a poor, poor marketing error, but the ending (from Preston's arrival at Father's supposed office, leading to his actual capture) was hasted far too much, this may be due to an approaching deadline, a drying budget or perhaps an error in the script, but still the error is there in the final product.

Regardless, I recommend anyone who enjoys either full-on action or an emotional movie watches this, and hopefully enjoys it as much as I do.

Doom (2005)

Rename the movie!

[4/10 · 31 October 2005]

Oh. My. God.

There are good reasons I voted for a one, mind you the graphics may be nice and flashy and there may be lots of guns involved, but that doesn't even come close to redeeming this movie's fatal error - The raping of Doom.

Doom was about an aerospace agency experimenting with dimensional gateways and thus opening a portal to Hell, spilling demons out that soon started warring with mankind.

This movie, is just another genetic experiment sprinter zombie movie, as if we didn't have enough, and the classical zombie wasn't defiled plenty. Still that isn't nearly as much of an atrocity as completely discarding everything that's Doom, or well, they have retained some resemblances with Doom as they said. Resemblances like them having guns, and them having to shoot bad guys. It's nothing but another shite movie about a bunch of roughnecks with big boomsticks fighting with more sprinter zombies, hence I vote to rename this movie to "Resident Evil 2: RE on Mars" and stop this good for nothing possé of "actors and scriptwriters" from dragging along with Doom's fame because they can't produce anything good of their own.

Bats (1999)

Addition

[17 July 2004]

I just had to say something on this film, but noticed how the previous comments said enough, so i thought i'd point out the flaws in-depth. Namely, i'll be pointing out the errors made with the bats (mind you i've been watching now and then as this movie plays, it's not worth my attention). First off, since when can a single bat overpower a full grown man? One bat flings himself at one nonetheless, and instead of grabbing the bat and crushing it under his boot, he decides to bounce around the cafe knocking over everything that's loose. Second, bats are blind any way you look at it, yet these critters seem to have some red vision - and woe the man who views it, for this is not all. The third point is the fact that when shot at, lots of sparks shoot off the bat, power rangers style, apparently these "mutated" bats are made of flintstone. The fourth point (and i'm sure there are more, but in total i've watched this movie for six minutes) is that apparently, bat crap gives off toxic levels of ammonia gas, so naturally the people who enter the lair wear space suits with added padded armor.

I'd say this sums up some of the ludicrous material in this movie, and you get the point - bad, bad, bad movie.