This isn't a bad attempt for what must have been a micro budget. The editing is choppy, the sound is just horrible, and the acting is total crap save for Evalena Marie (everyone else is basically just reading lines, as if it wasn't in the budget to do retakes so the instruction was--just act in deadpan because how can anyone fail at deadpan). The plot is inconsistent and disappointing. It starts out with a time travel premise, moves on to a Leon The Professional premise, and ends with basically cheese vaguely alluding back to the time travel premise, a premise that if you ask me was wasted on the whole. And if you asked me what the plot was to be honest I couldn't really tell you.
So why am I saying it's not bad and why am I giving it a score of five? Well, for some reason it was watchable. I didn't watch it all in one sitting, granted. I watched it in three sittings. It's actually a bit long for such a low budget film, running about 100 minutes before the ending credits. Evalena Marie does give a pretty good performance even though she is surrounded by actors who never heard of the term emotion. And even though the biggest special effect here is her eyeliner running down her face, inconsistent as it is (in one scene it's running, the next it isn't, the next it is again), she's attractive enough to keep things going. And even though the sound effects could have easily be concocted by the Berberian Sound Studio it's kind of fun to see what they managed to scrounge up with their pennies. It's just the fact that movies like this one, movies that have such an obvious micro budget, usually are complete slop, save of course for Primer the best micro budget film of all. Serena and the RATTS at least makes a real attempt at saying, hey, if we had another twenty million dollars, this would REALLY be cool, so watch and pretend that we do.
So why am I saying it's not bad and why am I giving it a score of five? Well, for some reason it was watchable. I didn't watch it all in one sitting, granted. I watched it in three sittings. It's actually a bit long for such a low budget film, running about 100 minutes before the ending credits. Evalena Marie does give a pretty good performance even though she is surrounded by actors who never heard of the term emotion. And even though the biggest special effect here is her eyeliner running down her face, inconsistent as it is (in one scene it's running, the next it isn't, the next it is again), she's attractive enough to keep things going. And even though the sound effects could have easily be concocted by the Berberian Sound Studio it's kind of fun to see what they managed to scrounge up with their pennies. It's just the fact that movies like this one, movies that have such an obvious micro budget, usually are complete slop, save of course for Primer the best micro budget film of all. Serena and the RATTS at least makes a real attempt at saying, hey, if we had another twenty million dollars, this would REALLY be cool, so watch and pretend that we do.
