the leading man is my tpye
... View MoreI gave it a 7.5 out of 10
... View MoreIt isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.
... View MoreWhile it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.
... View MoreI enjoyed Superman and the A team. I do not need to justify rediculous events. This offering went way beyond redicioulous. If you can handle that, you will be fine.Acting was really good for such a low budget. Scare factor did not exist. Directing was as good as could be expected with this script. I would have paid to watch this movie, if my life depended on it.
... View MoreYou get the cardboard cut-outs of a group of characters in this. You have the good guy, the bad guy, the crazy guy and the rookie(s). The budget is so small that the first time the guys are lifting something "heavy" (a machine, that plays a big role, who'd have thought that? Yes, everybody!), it is really painfully obvious that what they're lifting is pretty lightweight.There is some nice CGI, but the story is more than predictable (apart from one or maybe two little twists that is). I'm not sure what to think of that ending either. There is one scene there, that will disturb people a lot (depending on what they're used to take in ... no pun intended)!
... View MoreThis film was....how can I say it politely? A waste of time. It was also a waste of bandwith. If I paid to watch this at a cinema, I would probably burn it down to the ground if were it were not illegal to do so (heck I'd do that anyway simply because the snacks cost more than a nuclear missile). The more films I see that involve the second world war, the more I feel inclined to believe the industry is attempting to honour the memory of that horrid piece of work known historically and factually as Hitler. This was not refreshing by any scope of the imagination, it was certainly different, but it was different in a way that I can only describe as unexpected yet unwanted. I didn't watch the whole film because I endured, I endured mind you, the first half hour of it, and during that time the plot was predictable, the script was also predictable (any jokes about pussy is a bad start - they're old to a thirty-something), and generally if it's sci-fi you are looking for, then this may well be for you, but I'd expect to be bored out of your mind. Give it a go, you might like it, but for me, if I were you looking for something not usually your thing, I would totally give this a miss.
... View MoreAs a kid, I loved to watch old war movies. I still do! And back then, there seemed to be a never ending supply of them. Many of them, I later found out, made by B-movie specialist Sam Fuller. The 25th Reich took me back to those days. It is a film that seems to have been made with a desire to rekindle those nostalgic feelings, while also slipping off to places that the 50's war pics would never have dreamed of going, mainly due to 50's censorship. Set in Australia in 1943, a small unit of G.I.'s are tasked with tracking down some escaped pumas only to discover that they've been duped and their mission has a totally different purpose... Sam Fuller meets 50s science fiction pulp! Crazy stuff I admit, and I had a smile on my face all the way through it. Initially, I thought some of the acting and FX were coming across as a bit cheesy, but then I realised the filmmakers were deliberately echoing the spirit of the films of that era. I'm not sure if the younger generation will necessarily make that connection, but I sure did. Without a large budget, the filmmakers seem determined to throw everything they could at the screen, but not to cover up their lack of resources. They did it because they wanted to. They did it to make a film that was good and fun. With a nice sense of tongue in cheek bravado about it, they really delivered. I wasn't fully sure what to expect, and it took me a bit by surprise, but in a good way. Sam Fuller isn't really dead. His spirit just moved Down Under!
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