Product Details

• Directors: Kit Ryan
• Format: Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Warner Home Video
• DVD Release Date: May 13, 2008
• Run Time: 95 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0014FAIYI
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #49,943 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Botched" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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BOTCHED - DVD Movie

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The title says it all, August 24, 2008

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David West "David West" (Hebron, KY, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Botched (DVD)

The film begins with an almost Fargo-like series of mis-steps and mishaps that actually grab your interest. Unfortunately, that's as good as it gets. The joke, if you get it, begins with a Mr. Grozny (a fish-out-of-water Sean Pertwee...wouldn't Dr. Who just turn in his grave?) inviting the idiot who blew his last job to steal some "family heirlooms" in the penthouse suite of some Moscow high-rise. What they showed could well have been the former Lubyanka.
Recruiting the aid of a couple of Russian morons, probably too closely related, the theft goes from bad to worse, as does the film. Stupidity abounds with the cast slowly being slaughtered by some whirling dervish and so on.
Comedy and horror really don't mix too well and you have to be careful about your mix. Severance got it absolutely right and The Cottage comes in a close second. Here, it's like oil and water, one or the other.
This wretched experience brings the Keystone Kops to a new level of sophistication.
For what it's worth, "grozny" (pronounced "grozh-nyee") means "terrible." As in "Ivan the Terrible."

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Botched is an accurate title, March 10, 2011

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Jason (Funkytown) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Botched (DVD)

After a diamond heist gone wrong, Ritchie (Stephen Dorff) must make amends with his Russian mafia connections on another job. Inside a luxurious penthouse the caper goes awry. Teamed with the Russian version of Laurel and Hardy, Ritchie and the group is trapped on an undeveloped floor with a psycho who is equally involved in LARPing, ballet, and murder.

The most unfortunate aspect of Botched is the title describes the execution. It's a poor attempt at the horror/comedy blend where the horror isn't scary and the comedy isn't funny. Throw in disco lights and a few Scooby Doo chase scenes to make it worse. I'd be remiss if I didn't mention an atrocious, tone-def, misfiring score. It's Addam's Family, carnival, Italian restaurant, Benny Hill, and Tetris theme song all rolled into one. Worst score in movie history.

For whatever reason the movie is set in Russia, where all of the actors aside from the perpetually dramatic Dorff butcher Russian accents filled with inaccuracies and inconsistencies. Speaking of butchering, look for the Ed Gein inspired wallpaper midway through the film; it's the fraction that's even remotely creepy. As for funny, there's a cheap fart scene. If you're considering watching this travesty, I'd recommend treating it like gas: pass it.

Jason Elin

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Campy horror comedy, February 14, 2011

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Michael Fishman (Minneapolis, Minnesota) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Botched (DVD)

What attracted me to this movie was the blurb on the cover telling me that if I liked Shaun of the Dead I'd blah, blah, blah, Botched. I have no idea where the comparison between the two movies comes from other than there was blood in both movies and both movies were funny.

Botched is the story of Ritchie, a two-bit thief who gets sent to Russia to retrieve an artifact from a penthouse suite to pay to pay off the debt he owes to a local L.A. Russian crime boss. Sounds simple enough, but in Botched, what can go wrong, does go wrong, and everything leads to (almost) hilarity which explains the title.

There's not a lot of plot here beyond what I mentioned above. Ritchie gets paired with a hapless local duo and after successfully retrieving the artifact, he and his partners, and an assorted group of office workers making their way down to the lobby, get stuck on the building's 13th floor. Slowly the realization of their situation dawns on Ritchie and the rest of the movie involves him trying to, I guess un-botch, his, and the office worker's sticky situation.

The movie is bloody and not without humor and I was entertained for 94 minutes which is pretty much all I could ask for. With the exception of Stephen Dorff it looks as if the rest of the cast are all from the UK so I don't know why they set the story in Russia and made everyone speak with Russian accents? Maybe it was some kind of acting school assignment?

I'd recommend Botched to anyone with a warning for (campy) violence.