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The Hillz

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4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(13)

 

 

Actually sitting down and watching a Paris Hilton film is about as wild and crazy as I get. The Hillz really isn't a Paris Hilton film at all, though; it's just a film that she happens to appear in. I don't think the Oscars are going to come calling at the Hilton estate any time soon. The really sad thing is that everyone else in the cast is even a worse actor/actress than Paris. I might mention the fact that Paris actually keeps her clothes on in this movie - although her funeral scene attire was a wardrobe malfunction waiting to happen.

Oddly enough, this film could have been OK; all it needed was a decent writer, a decent director, a decent producer, a few decent actors, and some decent film quality. Since The Hillz has none of those things, it basically does a complete cannonball into an empty swimming pool. If I didn't know better, I would think Eminem wrote the script. The Hillz is basically all about a group of white, nouveau riche, teenaged hooligans who embrace a life of crime. In high school, they are just bored, no-good juvenile delinquents - and the cops are no better than they are. After high school, though, every policeman within 100 miles of The Hillz obviously left town because Duff and his gang of hooligans and thugs beat people up, sell drugs, use drugs, and murder people in cold blood - in broad daylight. There is apparently no community watch group in The Hillz because it's sort of hard for a whole neighborhood to not notice anything suspicious when a gang of kids cursing at the tops of their lungs start blowing each others' brains out in the middle of the street in the middle of the day. Gorehounds, I must say, will be disappointed because we hardly see any blood whatsoever. The characters themselves hardly even notice when Duff has one of his episodes and spontaneously takes somebody's head off - although one character does utter the words "uncalled for" in the wake of one of the murders.

There are trace elements of morality in this dark story. A couple of the main characters walk away from the gang after the killing starts, only to be sucked back in (one way or another) before the credits roll. The narrator is supposedly some guy who learned his lesson and is looking back on what happened to him, but he's just as dumb as Duff. If this is some kind of morality tale, it's not a very good one. The narrator guy happens to be madly in love with Heather Smith (Paris Hilton), even though she's self-centered and superficial (Paris wasn't exactly forced to act out of character for this film). Paris doesn't really bring a lot to the actual story, but she (unlike her equally untalented co-stars) can generate sales. When Paris Hilton is about the only thing going for a movie, you know it has some real problems.

I only rented this movie because Paris Hilton was on the cover. Little did I know it isn't about her at all...and she's only in about 10 minutes of it. The film quality is terrible and it really looks like someone went outside with a home video camera and taped it. On top of that, the acting is very bad. The actors show no emotion at all. And...the events are completly unbelievable. These rich kids just go around killing people for stupid reasons (like someone owes them $80) and they never get caught. On top of all that, whoever edited the movie put little stupid effects like a twinkle on this one rich guy's tooth when he smiled. Everything about this movie was dumb. I really think anyone could go out, buy a video camera and some cheap editing program, and make a movie better than this. If it didn't have Paris Hilton...it would have NOTHING going for it.

This is the worst movie I have ever seen in my life. It is so bad that it was hilarious. I haven't laughed so hard in a movie in a long time. The acting, script and editing are all awful. Every scene in the movie had nothing to do with anything. Anytime anyone said anything, it had nothing to do with anything that was going on in the movie. Horrible.

*minor spoilers (not that reading them would help you understand this film)*

Narrated from the perspective of pseudo-protagonist Steve 5 (Jesse Woodrow), "The Hillz" is one of the more recent cinematic enterprises attempting to illustrate (invent?) a particularly sad genre of American culture: that of young, bored, and rich white men seeking to acquire "street cred" by adopting a philosophy consisting primarily of women, drugs, death, and money. Steve, his pal Duff (Rene Heger), and some toadies lead a pointless existence as children growing up in Beverly Hills. Driven to hedonistic pursuits, wanting for nothing, and lacking any moral compass, the film follows these friends as their lives deteriorate around them. It seems that pampered affluence is helpless to prevent one's slide towards a violent death in the `hood.

*end minor spoilers*

My obsession with obtaining "maximum value" from my purchases is to blame for my watching of this disaster. I feel compelled to watch as many movies as my cable company (and my personal time) allow, as long as they are selected only from the "free on demand" group of films. Occasionally, this practice unearths a gem I would not have viewed otherwise. More often, I find myself trapped in the midst of a stampede of inappropriate musical timing, terrible acting, nonexistent directing, miscast after miscast, and writing which suggests English was the screenwriter's third language, as in this film. Unfortunately, that is not the limit of my cinematic pathology, for once I begin a movie, I cannot "just turn it off." I have never walked out of a movie. I have never paused a movie to listen to something one of my many now-ex-girlfriends was saying. I even sat through the entire travesty otherwise known as "The Postman" (the Kevin Costner one), at the same time a particularly raucous party was occurring in my own residence!

Compared to this movie, erstwhile horror-schlock tripe like "El Chupacabra" acquires depth. It is an extremely sad thing when the talent of Paris Hilton is the only thing that rises above the putrefied morass making up most of this film's content. Well, perhaps "rise above" is a generous designation for her almost invisible contribution to this film. There is really no conceivable reason for anyone to view this movie. Even if you harbor such unimaginably bad taste in women so as to lust after Paris Hilton, please spare your damaged psyche further pain and "Google-image" her, instead. Halfway through this movie I wondered if I was perhaps the victim of a grand practical joke, and "The Hillz" was really a subtle parody of Hollywood's glorification of rich, impotent fools masquerading as young thugs. Alas, the viewer realizes that this movie indeed attempts serious-storytelling, before time and again reverting back to inanity, random deaths, and ho-hum bursts of pointless violence.

This film makes the similarly-themed and mediocre "Havoc" seem downright monumental. Not even valuable as entertaining B-movie "so-bad-it's-good" fare (a la "Night of the Comet"). Avoid at all costs, if you value your soul.

This is the worst movie that I have ever seen!! Paris Hilton sucks as a actress. I fell asleep 4 times during the movie and couldn't wait for it to end. Don't waste your money buying it.

If you are watching the DVD jacket of `The Hillz' and thinking that Paris Hilton is the star of the film, you are utterly mistaken. She is only third-billed, and the story about those affluent and spoiled kids in Hillz has virtually little to do with her supporting role. You know this kind of thing sometimes happens when some filmmakers or company are desperately trying to cash in on the presence of celebrity in the film, and uses his or her name to attract the unsuspecting customers like me.

But even so, you know, things turn out unexpected sometimes, and if you're lucky, you find an amazing film ignored by many. No such luck here. `Hillz' clearly wants to be a gangster film with humor, but gangster part is terribly cliché-ridden, and humor part is just crude and unpleasant.

In short this is what you see. Imagine one nice guy who want to go to college, but cannot decide it because he is so nice (or indecisive) that he cannot leave his bad friends. One of the bad friends happens to be a trigger-happy Ed Norton look-alike who just cannot think because of booze and substance. Add to them several stereotyped hooligans (loser type, macho-type, etc.) and you get the recipe for this unoriginal film. And add a role of a rich girl Heather (`unattainable' our young hero seems to think) and give it to Paris Hilton.

OK, now, this is what you are about to see next. Picture to yourself a swimming pool scene in which Paris Hilton shows up in bikini briefly. Before or after that, throw in several unexciting shootings, and also some poor guy's funeral which Paris Hilton attends in sexy black dress. Occasionally the film needs some `funny' moments, so provide with laughs, use many F words, show some sketchy gags mostly based on stupid characters' repellent remarks on homosexuals and women. But perhaps we should take them as sarcasm, right?

I am sorry but I don't know anything about the director/writer/co-producer/co-casting director Saran Burnun. And probably there would be no occasion for me to know in the future. All I know is that `Hillz' is a really terrible film that I should have passed on last night.

I rented this movie for a couple of reasons. I LOVE Paris Hilton, and the lead guy in this movie was a guest star on the show Charmed. I found out soon after the film started that Paris is barely in the movie at all, they just used her on the cover to get people to see it- good marketing. The acting in this movie is about par with porn movies- it seems like in some of the scenes the actors had about one take to get it right. The plot is also ridiculous. These supposed High school boys kill a guy and don't even flinch- where is the human emotion that ususally comes with murder? The main character has everything in the world going for him, but he makes the stupid mistake of hanging out with his loser drug-dealing friends anyway even though a person in his shoes would never do that- it is totally unbelievable. This movie is so bad that it makes me not want to go to California ever again because of the way they dipict it. I would recommend anything over this movie- Do Not See It!!!!

This may be the worst movie I have ever seen. Horrible acting ever one is trying to be a gangster key word is trying.

There aren't words sufficient to express just how piss-poor this movie is. The writing is a disaster, the acting is so bad it makes the viewer visibly uncomfortable, and the production quality is about as low-budget as it gets.

The only thing working for this movie is just how bad it is. I was flipping around last night and caught it coming on Showtime. Out of curiosity, I decided to watch the first few minutes and, before I knew it, I was completely mesmerized by how utterly terrible this movie was in every possible respect. I mean, if the movie had been just bad--as opposed to an absolute train wreck--I certainly would've stopped watching it. But this movie was so mindblowingly terrible that I simply couldn't turn away.

So it has that going for it. Which is nice.

About the only thing gritty in this movie is the ugly camerawork and the bad performances. Like just about everyone else on here the only reason I decided to rent this movie was because Paris is all over the cover so I was like well it cant be that bad. Oh I was so wrong. Watching a wannabe crew of white boys talk tough and "run" the tough streets of white suburbia doesnt exactly provide high quality cinema. Avoid this movie at all costs. Trust me Paris fans, its not worth it.