Sick Product of a Sick System

One of my all time favorites.

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

***SPOILER*** Something like a cross between "American Psycho" which was released just six months earlier and "Se7an" the film "Sanctimony" has to do with this serial killer stalking the streets of Vancouver Canada cutting out body parts, eyes tongues and ears, of his murdered victims. There's no mystery who this psycho killer is since were introduced to him stock market whiz Tom Gerrick, Casper Van Dien, as soon as he makes his appearance on screen.Successful beyond words in everything that he does Tom is now interested in spicing up his boring life by killing people and getting away with his crimes. The only problem for Tom is that he feels that the local police are not quite up to the task to catch him in being worthy opponents so he makes it easy on them by murdering and cutting out the tongue of a 16 year old hooker and himself reporting the crime to the police. This has Vancouver homicide policeman Jim Renart, Michael Pare, and his woman partner Dorothy Smith, Jenny Rubin, interview Tom as in him being the person who first discovered her body. With all the evidence that Tom is not the innocent person that he makes himself out to be he'll still let go due to the work his high price lawyer. With him being bored to death in being right all the time Tom now really sticks his neck out in ,like in the movie "Se7en", egging on the police to arrest him by kidnapping the cop in charge of the hooker's murder Jim Renart's wife Susan, Catherine Oxenberg, and leaving her hanging outside her apartment window with a noose tied around her neck. This would have Susan's unsuspecting husband open the door thus pulling the lever, or turning the door knob, that will drop her in mid air breaking her pretty neck and killing her!The film also has an unrelated snuff film sequence where a young women is brutally murdered on video tape at this extreme fight club in the city with policeman Renalt present not more then a few yards away from the murder scene and never having a clue to what's happening. If that wasn't enough we have Tom invited to this major TV talk show to tell the audience, in the studio and watching on TV, the secret of his amazing "success" in and out of the stock market. Tom noticeably losing his cool in the mindless questions he's being asked suddenly flips out, after giving a long rambling and mindless speech on the human condition, and to the complete shock of everyone watching slices the throat of the talk show host Nat Deveaux just because he was going to a station brake!***SPOILERS*** Tom again loses it when he finds out that his killing in the market, that he expected to make millions on, was going down the tubes together with his stock portfolio then for reasons known only to himself, who by then had gone completely insane, heads for his ex fiancée's Eve's (Tanja Reichert), whom he just broke up with the night before, wedding ceremony with a new soon to be husband and without as much as saying a word guns her down and all the guests invited there! By now there was no way for the writer director Uwe Boll to salvage this turkey of a movie so it was up to Officer Renart to mercifully end it and save those of us watching as well as those in the movie any more undo suffering.

SPOILERS I watched this movie on HBO at 3AM, and you know what kind of movies are on at that time.First, though, the filmography and one user's comments list the Van Dien character's name as 'Tom Gerrick'. Actually, the character was named Tom Turner.I was puzzled trying to figure out Turner's motivations, and conclude that he displayed total insanity.*SPOILERS* For his early murders, he hid his crimes. Then he went mad? Why did he destroy his brokerage firm by knowingly buying shaky securities? Why did he kill the detective when her partner knew he was with her? Why did he kill the talk show host ON CAMERA? Why did he drop the magazines from his guns at the restaurant? Why did he kill strangers in the restaurant?The movie didn't make a lot of sense, but at 3AM there isn't much choice.

Was this a rip off of "American Psycho" or was I just imagining things? Despite the fact that I quite like Michael Pare, this film was bad, bad, bad. Save your time and your money - watch "Bone Daddy" instead. PS A detective chasing bad guys in a VW Beetle, PULEEZ.

Oh, my. Oh, this is a *really* bad movie. The acting is absolutely atrocious, the script is god-awful, and the photography is simply dreadful.What does make this movie stand out, however, is that you never once care about a single soul-- good guy or bad guy, living, dying or dead-- in the entire 87 minutes. "Oh, s/he died? Huh... Figured they would" was the best reaction I could muster after each murder. Characters are so black-or-white that with the volume turned off, you could still figure out who was who. While the cast's voices had an odd monotone quality throughout, their faces give the impression that you're looking at an old silent movie with a lot of eyebrow waggling, exaggerated frowns and "pensive looks". Each character is a humorless, passionless, one-dimensional one-trick pony; once they fulfill whatever their particular role in this fiasco demanded their creation, they are summarily dismissed.It vaguely made me think of what would happen if Thomas Borch Nielsen (director/writer of "Skyggen", American title: "Webmaster") decided to do a low-budget version of "American Psycho" and got kind of distracted along the way.This isn't a particularly gruesome movie; the cold, passionless cast ensures that. It isn't an offensive movie; the director plays it so safe that no one could possibly find it so. It is, simply and after all, a bad movie.Avoid it. We were not so fortunate and actually paid to watch this bomb on Pay-per-View. As part of my penance, I'm writing this review. Enough said.