City of Fear (2001)

User Rating:

3.9/10   

Director:

Mark Roper

Writer:

Harry Alan Towers (writer)

Genre:

Action

Tagline:

Mercy is for the weak.

Plot:

When reporter Steve Roberts acts on a call from his good friend, Dr. Charlie Venco, urging him to leave...

Plot Keywords:

Bulgaria | Police | Funeral | Organized Crime | Russian Mafia

Cast

Gary Daniels	...	Steve Roberts
Carol Campbell	...	Alexa
Richard Clarkin	...	Venco
Meglena Karalambova	...	Col. Koslovska
Hristo Shopov	...	Vasyl
Peter Mechkoff	...	Interpol Agent #1
Vladimir Bonev	...	Dr. Kruger
Petko Petsev	...	Addict #1
Basan Saad	...	Interpol Agent #2
Vasil Banov	...	Captain Serge
Emiliyan Georgiev	...	Coordinator
Michail Elenov	...	Crazy Addict (as Michael Elenov)
Itzhak Finzi	...	Timoshenko ("Emil Boev") (as Itzhac Fintsi)
Margarita Angelova	...	Nurse
Stoyan Tsenov	...	Reporter

Runtime:

90 min | Germany:84 min (25 fps)

Country:

Canada | UK | Bulgaria | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Germany:18 (video premiere) | UK:15

Filming Locations:

Sofia, Bulgaria

Company:

GFT Entertainment

The WORST movie I have ever seen.

I wish to preface these comments by saying that I don't usually like to criticise the efforts of other Directors. That being said however, this is positively the worst film I have ever seen in my life. I have had the misfortune of being witness to some absolute travesties of cinema in my time but this must be right up there with "Scorpio Rising" in my opinion as an example of the worst possible waste of time, money, effort, and attention I can ever claim to have been associated with. From the very moment the titles began, I was dubious. This was followed by a wave of disbelief, a hope that this was a spoof, then the fits of embarrassed laughter took over and I can honestly say that every film-making mistake and cliche that I could think of at the time was being paraded on screen before my very eyes. The acting was non-existent, the lead actor was tragically mannered, wooden, and frighteningly bad. So bad that i could only imagine he was there for the "Fight sequences" if you could call them that. They too were cliched, pointless and boring. I'm not even going to comment on the other 1 dimensional jokes of characters that are thrown in there. Every possible stereotype and cliche you could imagine. As soon as you thought that they were all used up, there would be one more you had forgotten about being thrust at you. The directing was woeful, the pace mind numbing, the writing abysmal. I had to wonder how the Director managed to decipher the bar napkins the script must have come off through the obvious state he must have been in to bother to make such drivel. The financiers mustn't have even read anything, and it is a insulting piece of garbage that quite frankly saddens me. To think that there are so many deserving film makers all around the world that struggle to even get the necessary equipment and film stock to make their pictures, and here we see it squandered on what any deranged monkey could see was a piece of rubbish. If i could give it minus stars I would. But for comedy value, or for a lesson on what not to do, it can have it's one star.