crashcymbalz Reviews

Sympathy for the Devil (2023)

Infuriating

[4/10 · 4 August 2023]

I really wanted to like this movie as a huge Nicolas Cage fan, and while I thought he gave a solid performance, its ruined by the terrible script. The atmosphere and soundtrack choices are good too but so many other things just don't work. Some sounds are just way too damn loud(even when I know it was intentional they did not need to be ear-shatteringly loud), there are issues with the editing in spots, Joel Kinneman's acting ranges from believable to what the hell was the director thinking, and the pacing goes from a slow-burn thriller then turns into 15 drawn-out minutes of Nic Cage's character holding different people at gunpoint with his pistol with almost nothing else happening in these scenes. When the scenes are so drawn out, they lose any feeling of tension and instead become annoying. I watched the last 15 minutes to this movie twice to try and understand what was happening and still couldnt. The explanation that Nicolas Cage gives for kidnapping the character was poorly-explained and we get left with so so so many questions when it's all over. But hell, maybe I just missed some important line in the movie or something. And I could look over a lot of that if the movie's ending wasn't so awful. SPOILERS: Nick cage's character is killed at the end by the main character, who then gets surrounded by cops, and I think they were trying to infer that he was going to be held accountable for the murder spree with him holding his hands up at gunpoint. This ending is TERRIBLE for multiple reasons, because one, his wife KNOWS something has gone horribly wrong already when nic cage answered the phone, and two, there were multiple witnesses at the diner who saw what happened that left before it blew up. The bottom line, though, is that the script ruined this movie.

Devil's Revenge (2019)

HUH?

[1/10 · 1 May 2023]

If the budget of 22.5 million dollars listed is correct, then where the hell did all that money go? Certainly not to the actors, who are ALL wooden, although shatner has some classic moments that wouldve fit in the first star trek, and certainly not to the dreadful CGI present throughout. The entire movie looks like an episode of a mid 2000s TV show, and the plot is almost completely nonsensical. The director seems to have decided not to give the actors any direction at all and must have just told them to act. The practical effects aren't even good, so whenever there is blood present on screen, it looks hilariously fake. The only other movie i've ever seen squander this kind of budget this poorly before is the 2020 children of the corn remake.

Rampage (2009)

Suprising for a boll picture, but not without its flaws

[7/10 · 12 January 2023]

After becoming somewhat of a terrible movie connoisseur, you can bet ive seen a load of uwe boll flicks in my life. What stuck out about this one was the fact that it was just a good movie.

My main issues come with the cinematography in some areas and the editing(mainly at the beginning of the movie).

Some of the editing in this movie is downright bizarre, and the shaky cinematography gets way over the top in certain scenes.

The acting felt very real to me, Brendan Fletcher absolutely could be an A-lister actor. My only real question about this movie was, where the hell did he find all that kevlar and weaponry, and how was he able to control the van remotely?

Overall, a decent movie that has good social commentary but probably could've excelled with some tighter writing and a better director. I think this movie does deserve about a 7 total on imdb, but every boll picture gets flooded with negative reviews.