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Darkhunters

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It's a shame. There's an interesting idea here, but it gets completely lost in a confusion of Commodore 64 style computer effects and bad storytelling. The plot, such as it is, concerns a bounty hunter of souls. It should be a fairly straightforward hunter/hunted kind of story, but the director and/or the writer seem like they forgot what the movie was supposed to be when they were about three days into shooting. Things aren't helped by the fact that the main baddie looks like he's wearing a cheap Darth Maul mask, which they tried to disguise with flowing CG colors. Not much to recommend here, even the title seems to propel it into obscurity.

I have to say it, I enjoyed watching this film. I am not a fan of horror movies, but I didn't mind at all to watch DarkHunters. By the cover I thought that after 5 minutes I was going to turn it off, but I have to say it, it was ok.
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I picked this movie up cheaply and I'm so glad. It probably wasn't worth the couple of bucks I paid for it. Wooden acting from all the actors. The script absolutely sucks, with the worst dialogue I have seen for quite some time. E.g. Jeff Fahey in a cafe: "This coffee would put an insomniac to sleep". (Huh??!!!). Jeff Fahey outside a character's house "Nice joint ya got here Charlie". We're obviously in Australia because the lead female character has an Aussie accent, so what's with the American detective jive, and Fahey's overly long Robert-de-Niro in Angel-Heart-style fingernails? I must admit I actually enjoyed the musical score, by the writer-director Johannes Roberts, but I had a bad gut feeling when the movie opened with a quote from Poe (spelled wrongly as Edgar ALLEN Poe - can't people be bothered to consult a reference book if they are going to have a quote on their movie from this famous writer?). But the direction is GODAWFUL! How many slow motion shots of cats can a person tolerate? And when the female lead is threatened with a gun she not only doesn't react, but after taking the gun away from the character Charlie, lets him have it back! Charlie (who is invisible to everyone except the female lead) shoots the cat with his gun, then promptly vanishes from the scenario....The waitress at the cafe sees the cat get shot, but also promptly vanishes from the scenario. The female lead says "there's a diner down the road" when no-one in Australia calls them diners. The script is just a clumsy jumble of American, Australian and Eorpean influences. I couldn't watch past the scene in the cafe hwich is about an hour in, after the storyline seeming somewhat intriguing, I just couldn't hack it....A movie that's bad - not that in that good way you sometimes get where it's so bad it makes you laugh - well, okay, yeah I did laugh at this a couple of time on the way through, but this is more like in that bad Ulli Lommel-type way where the movie is incredibly boring as well as inept and you just think "My God - why didn't somebody tell this no-talent director that he should stop!!" But then, on IMDB there some reviews from people who enjoyed this schlock,so go figure...

I really enjoyed this film. It wasn't as scary as the video box suggested but it had a likeable freshness that set it apart from more standard genre fare. I love Jeff Fahey and here he is as good as he has been in the last ten years or so. But really what makes this film is the special effects (in particular the angel at the end of the movie). Well worth checking out even if it is sometimes painfully slow.