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5.0 out of 5 stars
As Good A David Carradine Film As Any Ever Made, April 11, 2004
This review is from: Crime Zone [VHS] (VHS Tape)
This stupendous sci-fi futuristic movie is the adventure that Judge Dredd merely WANTED to be. David Carradine shines as we watch a young couple in a future city strive to escape the police state. This one will leave you inspired.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Interesting Carradine Future Dred movie set in Totalitarian Future, March 25, 2006
This review is from: Crime Zone [VHS] (VHS Tape)
Young couple believes '1984-style' lie that
perfect place is right around the corner, if
they can just escape there. Carradine as Cop
Capt'n has other ideas...A good one on modest
budget.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Very disappointing, June 1, 2011
This review is from: Crime Zone [VHS] (VHS Tape)
In a post-apocalyptic country called Soleil, two young lovers (Bone and Helen) are employed by a high positioned individual (Jason)and must perform illegal activities for him. In exchange, he offers them the chance to escape this country and flee for Fraudan, whose politics are not as horrible as Soleil's.
Though the premise itself, along with the trailer, promised an interesting variation of the MadMax concept (heroes living in a post-apocalyptic world like in Fallout or the anime Hokuto no Ken) but in a Big Brother setting, Crime Zone was in the end a disappointing movie. For the simple reason that the script itself was badly written with characters having absurd names (a hero called "Bone", which I always confused with another word that starts with the same four letters, and finishes with the letter R), bad dialogues and useless comic gestures and salutes, and most of all bad directing from the director himself (who was also the producer of the movie). Under the director's influence, I felt the actors, during the whole movie, were overacting when they shouldn't be, though not as much as the guy who played Creon. Indeed, his character, who was supposed to be darkly funny, diabolical and psychotic, was always overacting even in the most dramatic scenes. His expressions and gestures and voice intonations were so over-the-top that I was just too happy to see him gone at the end of the movie.
As for the script itself, it would be very interesting to read its first version, and see if it was better than what they used during production for the final product lacked some quality that I was expecting, which was a script that had at least good or decent dialogues, a more scary atmosphere that didn't over-rely on its soundtrack, and most of all, well-written characters.
If I had to give one compliment about the movie, it would be to Sherilyn Fenn, who at least tries to gives a sense of honesty to her strong-willed character Helen and to not make her over-act. If it wasn't for her honesty, I would have just took the tape out of my VCR and burned the movie without even finishing it.
To conclude, I think that this movie had a good concept and premise, but its bad production values (especially in the lighting which could have been better used since many scenes happened at night), and its horrible director-producer made the final product something mediocre that lacked consistent quality.
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