The Soul Collector (II) (2019)
2/10
Outback Gang Violence
29 June 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Movie starts out with a survivor from 1980's 'Deathship' thawing out and still defrosting on his deathbed as Thorn from 'Halloween 5' sits back and admires all the suffering. What sounds like The Fat Boys human beat box thumps out some tunes while Grogu wriggles around in a duffle bag?

Music from 'Donnie Darko' then plays as a car, which is powered by atomic fallout, drives on the left hand side of the road letting the viewer know that we're somewhere in South Australia? Aerial drone shots of the Kimberley highlight Australia's picturesque Uluru rocks of the Nullarbor Plains.

Milla Jovovich, or is it Catherine Zeta Jones, Sam Worthington, and their inquisitive pipsqueak bug-collecting daughter Punky Brewster move into a convict settlement near where 'The Umbrella Woman' used to dwell and sit around a billabong and communicate with a tribal elder on the first night.

Creighton Duke, from 'Jason Goes To Hell,' shows up playing outback elder warrior Lazarus.

Snooping around the 'Evil Dead' cabin the next morning Milla disturbs a raven-crested common pigeon and it's a flash knockdown but she gets up at the count of 4, dusts herself off, and carries on in pursuit of meaning to this rather drab affair.

I only learnt of a gateway portal to hell being located in a vacant lot in Gary, Indiana a day ago. That would make a good movie.

It's funny how Australia's always stereotype cast with only a handful of national icons when it comes to identity. I mean, Creighton Duke is given a half-eaten damper and the family sits down to some bush tucker of Heinz spaghetti and baked beans. Surely there's more to Australia than just bush tucker?

Punky Brewster and Creighton Duke make San Choy Bow out of witchetty grubs and lettuce leaves one morning and offer it to the Earth. Don't tell me it's gonna morph into 'Big Man Japan' and come back stomping the tripe out of downtown Adelaide like Godzilla?

Pharrell Williams shows up in an outfield letting the family know what set he's claiming in some sort of red versus blue thing Australian style. "I'm a rebel and my .44 pops far."

It results in a showdown face off in town. Yep, an old fashioned dust up.

Worthington and Duke team up and head to town in the atomic chugger. Warm greetings soon turn about-face. Fingers are pointed, a gun is drawn, Spit from 'Beat Street' appears showing disrespect. (I thought he committed suicide on the railway line?) And Dr. Loomis threatens the opposing factions. However, violence is averted for the time being but not forgotten as the challenge has been thrown down and lines in the sand have been drawn.

It's revealed that Creighton Duke, from 'Jason Goes To Hell,' is the human beat box and he also watched too much 'Silence of the Lambs' as he places bug Larvae down the throats of his victims - mother included - and wants change, you see? It results in what Gediman called a beautiful butterfly spawning in the incubus orifice of the deceased and an ensuing Death's-head Hawkmoth blooming.

A strange twist in the movie sees a bath cloth trying to strangle Milla one night. That'd be a movie first, death by a face cloth. But this is no ordinary killer bath cloth. It's a Death's-head moth cloth woven out of the skins of 'The Soul Collector' and a thousand times more absorbent than ShamWow.

The movie kind of has a 'Serpent and the Rainbow' vibe about it. Maybe? Not really?

So, it's 'Blood in, Blood out,' as Creighton Duke kills William's mother in a tit for tat display and I guess this is gonna get messy with retaliation hits now? Milla Jovovich suffers from post-traumatic pigeon disorder from being punched in the face earlier in the movie. It plagues her all throughout. Pharrell Williams hatches a plan to steal Grogu but Creighton Duke shanks him for thievery and buries him half alive. Dr. Loomis then clobbers Duke over the head but only succeeds in creating 2 of him for doing so? They come to an agreement and form a temporary sympathy truce which was uncalled for in my opinion! Talk about breaking bread with the enemy.

Everyone turns on each other, backs are stabbed, opposing gang members join other forces, disloyalty reigns, Worthington and Catherine Zeta Jones even turn on each other due to outside corrupt influences and are hoodwinked into the game. Everyone's been played and Creighton Duke is pulling the strings along with Grogu's assistance behind it.

Blood member, Worthington, reaches for the elephant gun as a last resort extreme measure as Creighton Duke steals Punky Brewster and uses her as a bargaining tool. Confused, Worthington turns on Dr. Loomis point blank as treachery, disorder, and chaos rule.

Strangely Punky Brewster and Creighton Duke form an alliance at the end and even pinky swear their bond and get wasted on peyote then call themselves "The Outback Teapot Posse." Turns out that Creighton Duke was a former member of an 80's gang "The 8-Ball Rollers." Legend has it he turned his back on them to form a peace keeping posse allegiance with Grogu called "The Koala Bear Bad Boys." But Duke is set on fire at the end for his troubles and sent to Mars for eternity because he murders Punky Brewster from accidental peyote poisoning overdose.

Catherine Zeta Jones turns into Milla Jovovich at the end and eats a butterfly to confirm her transition.
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