Eye for an Eye

No denying this is a very low budget film but I thought it was a good story with many twists and turns. Alex Sturman made a good heroine and Shirley Dalmas was a great villainess. Their confrontation in glider planes was well done and the highlight of the movie to me.

I have seen a lot worse big budget movies of similar type. Even though the special effects were spotty throughout the film it actually lent a certain charm to me thinking back to low budget films made in the past. The movie kept me entertained throughout. The rest of the cast was good to adequate. I will give the movie seven stars.

Inconsistent sound. Poor acting. Poor special effects. Poor poor poor. Don't waste your time.

One can only assume that there must be huge 200% tax write-offs for spending money making dreck like this. OK, I get that it was probably made on a shoestring budget, but that doesn't mean the end product has to be just so appallingly bad. In ALL departments. The camera work suggests that the person behind it has spent a lot of time filming soapy episodes for daytime TV, with the earnest close-ups of the "actors". The dialogue is stupendously bad, and so it fits the acting abilities of the cast to a tee. Very little action, mostly a talkfest, and what action there is is inept and unintentionally hilarious. Adversaries face off about 10 feet apart, firing machine guns at each other for what seems like an eon, but no one gets hit!!! Seriously, REALLY seriously, don't waste your time. I've already regretted doing so. No "spoilers" above, it would be impossible to spoil this more than the producers have already done so.

It difficult to review this waste of electricity and time without reaching for my Dictionary of Pejoratives. The sound-track is perhaps the best part of it but it's still dire - think cats walking over a synthesiser programmed with every cheap piece of muzak imaginable. The story is less than juvenile, the acting and casting are just laughable, and the locations are low-budget beyond belief.

I rarely review movies that I couldn't bear to watch all the way through but I just had to warn anyone reading this that you really have got better things to do than subjecting yourself to this dross. Even the studio's paid shills won't dare to give this mess more than two stars if they have an ounce of honesty and humanity in them....

Well where do you start? Well let's start with the terrible acting which was way beyond wooden, in fact quite unforgiving really! Dialog, must have been written by the directors 5 year old. Special effects, not so special really! Sound, some of the worst sound production quality I have ever heard, ever .... no seriously I mean EVER! It needs a review all to itself, sound levels up and down from minute to minute, times where the dialog has clearly been recorded in a toilet cubicle! The sound engineer should seriously hang their heads in shame. Storyline, well there was some semblance of one which in more competent hands might have been half decent, unfortunately for this movie and the viewer these certainly weren't competent ones. Action scenes, good lord help us: no amount of good acting were that possible in this movie could have prepared me for how bad the fight scenes were going to be, I am still trying to get over it to be honest. In short, do yourself a favour and gives this a pass, unless of course you are one of those folks who go into a movie thinking it can't be that bad, OK but I did warn you ...