LD 50 Lethal Dose (2003)

Director:

Simon De Selva

Writer:

Matthew McGuchan (writer)

Genre:

Horror

Tagline:

Double the Fear, Half the Chance

Plot:

Re-formed by a coded message to their web site, a group of animal rights activists set off to free an imprisoned colleague from a terrifying ordeal...

Plot Keywords:

Animal Rights | Acronym In Title | Digit In Title | Marijuana | Hippie

Cast

Katharine Towne	...	Helen
Melanie Brown	...	Louise
Tom Hardy	...	Matt
Ross McCall	...	Gary
Toby Fisher	...	Justin
Leo Bill	...	Danny
Philip Winchester	...	Vaughn
Stephen Lord	...	Spook
Tania Emery	...	Jenny Wheeler
Alan Talbot	...	Foreman
Antony Zaki	...	Yoga Teacher
Xanthe Elbrick	...	Receptionist

Also Known As:

LD50 (UK) (short title)
Lethal Dose (USA) (DVD title)

MPAA:

Rated R for violence, language and some drug use.

Runtime:

97 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Finland:K-15 | UK:15 | USA:R | Germany:16

Filming Locations:

London, England, UK

Company:

Four Horsemen Films

Trivia:

First ever feature film to be shot on Kodak VISION2 film.

Soundtrack:

Jericho

Lethal Ending

In short: lame first 30 minutes, super duper middle 30 minutes, super duper lame final 30 minutes. That's it, in a nutshell.

Mel b can't act, and so can't the female lead. The male lead was Shinzon in Star Trek Nemesis, incidentally. He looks weird here, probably because the film had zero character development. And the girl using yoga to beat the bad guy at the end was funny. Funny in a "ha ha, that blows" sort of way, mind you.

The film currently has a 7-something rating. This is due to a low voting count. When more people see the flick, I suspect the rating will go down. Around 5-point would be my guess. Myself, I am giving it 6/10, just for the spooky middle. The rest isn't worth spit.

My grade 6/10, just cause I dig horror flicks, even if they're mostly lame.