Review Time: this film is poor.
Fundamental elements: there is a number
and words on screen, background music, cultural elements, quick moving effects,
slow-motion effects, no subtitles when another language is being used,
voice-over elements, place jumps and time jumps.
Comedy level: a majority of it is poor, but
the lead evildoer not being seen as frightening or something to this effect
including this really getting into his head and having our lead role asking
roughly this question of "Who do you work for?" He aims this question
towards these characters that are not in a fit state to respond to this simple
question until the last one, these elements are good.
Action sequences: briefly at first
there are weapons being used, combat elements and chasing sequences. The red
eye or green eye thing is good [it is where individually these characters are
planning out their movements and that kind of thing] and the car elements
towards the later stages of this title are fun.
Character developments/Performances: the character developments on some aspects are awkward and before I
continue I would like to highlight that if these elements were not in this
title I wouldn't be discussing them, so with that being highlighted I will
continue. The first element is where we have our lead role pointing out the
other character he is working with should have nunchucks, because in this scene
or sequence he gets given a weapon first [this other character and I say this
with political correctness in mind, this other character is Asian] and without
giving too much away he does use nunchucks much later on in this title, but
continuing; these two characters have a fight and at some point this Asian
character jumps on this furniture or something to send the lead character
flying which I have no problem with, but for this one little thing do we really
need to hear him say " Hadoken" when he does this [I would like to
point out in the interest of fairness and balance I know this could be a
reference to Ken and not Ryu from the multi-media franchise Street Fighter.]
But there's more later on in this project [if at this point you are still
paying attention you will hear this;] you will hear our lead role say "You
guys are awesomely organized." When it is only the Asian character in the
car with him,] The thing is I don't know why these elements are in this title
in the first place, once again with being politically correct and walking a
very fine line they didn't or don't really need to highlight that this
character is from Asia especially in this manner in this project.
Now
generally speaking the other character developments [minus one character which
I will discuss later,] the character developments are poor. Moving on to the
performances in short they range from poor to just before mixed, how can I put
this; nicely and short as well, it depends if and when this title wants to be
sensible is depending what kind of performance you will see and just for the
record I am not completely comfortable with saying mixed, that is why I have
been specific because there are some small elements of sensible bits and pieces
from this recurring cast minus one character/performer, but as soon as you see
or feel something sensible it goes back to being juvenile or at the very least
not sensible.
Benjamin
Chudnofsky/Waltz; this character/performer well I am not usually this direct
but there is what everyone else is doing and then we have him which works on a
completely different level it doesn't matter if it is a character development
or a performance, one moment it can be serious next moment funny or the next moment
combining the two or something else but here is the crucial thing to understand
about this character/performances everything seems fluent and easy to watch
when he is doing his thing.
This film receives: 2/10, even though
in the previous paragraph and some elements throughout this review I have been
highlighting they either work short-term in bits and pieces or positive. This
mark is meant to reflect the negative elements to this project are
counterproductive to the viewing experience [and on a side note there are two
things for you to look out for; the first thing is Franco/Danny
"Crystal" Clear and Benjamin Chudnofsky/Waltzlook have great
chemistry and the second thing is the sketch pad, whilst this pad is being
looked at briefly you will see a sketch of the legend Bruce Lee which was in
the original; The Green Hornet TV series 1966 -- 1967 as the character Kato.]
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