vegarp Reviews

Manhunt (2008)

Oh well...

[1/10 · 27 January 2008]

The story is supposed to take place in the summer of 1974, and this is where the problems start. You get absolutely no feeling of being in the 70s, the looks of the characters, their language, clothes and attitude is nothing that resemble the youngsters of the mid 70s in Norway in any way. You get a immediate feeling of being in year 2008, but the director obviously want it to be otherwise.

With such a poor beginning you lose the interest for the rest of the plot, but you continue watching for things that might save this from turning into a total catastrophe. Unfortunately the crap continues.

It goes on into a wrap of blood, gore and chaos beyond any recognition. The bad guys are super-humans in the beginning, but once the blonde starts to repel they act like a bunch of blind idiots with no structure or strategy whatsoever.

On the bright side, the effects and make-up in the movie are absolutely stunning, great actually. Very convincing, and the violence isolated from the rest are good.

But in sum, this is another failure in the line of the new Norwegian gore and slasher movies, like Villmark and Fritt Vilt. This is the definitive worst production so far, but lets take into account that this is the directors debut.

Black Knight (2001)

Bad, but could you possibly expect anything else?

[4/10 · 5 April 2007]

This movie has been slaughtered in most reviews I've read. But what comes into mind is that this isn't a screen trying to be anything else than it is. The acting is bad, the story is thin and not very surprising, but yet it can be fun, in a foolish way. You can't expect to see anything serious, or anything well done, you can't expect to see a intelligent or creative comedy. This is plain fun, without brains or anything new. The fact that everything are almost as bad as it possibly can be, makes it fun, and I don't think its intended to be anything else, it is what it ought to be. Stupid comments, making fun of British history and culture, placing an African American back in the 14th century, this is what its all about. Don't expect anything but this, and you might, in some ways, actually enjoy this picture.