Review of Retroactive

Retroactive (1997)
1/10
I've Had Better Nightmares !
16 July 2010
Warning: Spoilers
It was hard to define my feelings while watching this. But sure they were all negative.

Sometimes, it's the most pointless and boring sci-fi movie. Sometimes, it's idiot, so outrageously crazy, action thriller. But mostly, it's one of the smartest, most unique, comedies ever made!

Whatever what was that exactly; it's wired, yet stupidly wired. Nothing works in a good way. The sci-fi factor is thinly exploited for making pure violent cartoon. The characters are just used fragments, not humans. The heroine has nothing to be attached to. (James Belushi) played a sarcastic low-life lunatic undying devil (!!). Yes, his lovable charisma made it kind of bearable, but his rampantly loud performance ruled; due to rampantly loud script in the first place!

The blank circles are highly comic. For instance, I can't hold myself at the line of "We have to go back!". And truly with all the random killing every time, being in bigger shape every time too; I have never laughed like this since (It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World - 1963). Let alone matters like having a gun with a 70 bullets, a governmental institution for time travel's experiments THAT HAS ONE HUMAN BEING TO WORK IN IT!, etc.

The action was hyped in totally the wrong place; that made the movie like a piñata full of explosives, or psychopath clown who plays with dynamite! I'm pretty certain that there are plot holes, though I have enough headache to count them for you (sorry, I have just finished the movie!). Strikes me how its makers convinced any sane producer to finance it, or all its cast to do it (what a mystery indeed!). And it's the top of silliness already when the end expresses something like being a feminist movie!

Overall, it might be about "Don't mess with the time", however the movie itself did mess with the time travel's theme BIG TIME. If it succeeds in anything, then it's making you nervous!

Save some catchy yet absurd action, and some good yet wasted direction from (Louis Morneau), this is frantic B movie from pedant hell. In another word, "Mindless" wasn't literally, or monstrously, portrayed like this before. To admire this, you have to be whether a 12- year-old, a stoned, an alien from outer space, or 12- year-old stoned alien! Or a searcher of seen-to-be-believed bad movies; where it'll be a cult favorite indeed. Most importantly, I think (Retroactive) is a very notable reason for why (Orion) bankrupted one year later, in 1998. According to this movie, they deserved what happened. THEY UTTERLY DESERVED IT!

Although this is worst than any nightmare I have ever seen, but did you see how the kid near the end traveled in time too? Original moment in the history of comedy!
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