2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
One of the Worse, September 7, 2008
This review is from: Johnny Sunshine (DVD)
It's beyond me how anyone could make a movie this awful. This could be one of the worse flicks I've ever seen, maybe the second, after "Lancelot de Luc". Even if one is into gore/slasher flicks, this movie still sucks. When I have to fast-forward in parts, I know something is really wrong. It's got some overdone, really stupid violent scenes that didn't really gross me out because they were so dumb. It's like this movie was made by undergrad college kids for either hardcore felons in prison, or extremely mentally dull persons. Not really much of a story, pieced together in a crude fashion, with long extended scenes that got to be so boring that I almost puked. There were zombies in it, but of the lowest order, just stupid zombies. I watched it via Netflex, and I would suggest that one should never rent nor buy it unless one wants to throw money away. It's really beyond me how anyone can even get a DVD as horrible as this one into the marketplace. I realize that they only spent a few bucks making it, but I can't see how they can recoup their money from this disaster. The producers/director should be locked up along with all the actors in it.
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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
I loved this movie!, September 11, 2008
This review is from: Johnny Sunshine (DVD)
The concept for this movie was awesome. I just loved it. I recommend this one to all the horror fans out there who love movies with revenge, zombies covered in blood and a hot lead actress. Five stars! Johnny Sunshine Maximum Violence was a blast!
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Fun, if you're not expecting much., December 6, 2008
This review is from: Johnny Sunshine (DVD)
Johnny Sunshine: Maximum Violence (Matt Yeager, 2008)
Both director Matt Yeager and screenwriter Sean-Michael Argo were taking their first cracks at their respective jobs with Johnny Sunshine: Maximum Violence, and it shows, but that doesn't make it the painfully horrid piece of film that the thirty-two raters on IMDB--who have given the film a collective rating of 1.2--would have you believe. While the film was made with almost no budget, there's a lot to be liked here, as long as you're not expecting much when you dive into it.
In the post-apocalyptic world the film inhabits, zombies have basically taken over, and the humans who remained have learned to co-exist with them in an odd sort of way. (Zombies, after all, are slow and stupid.) Johnny Sunshine (the ferally beautiful Shey Bland) makes her living alternating between hunting zombies and making low-rent snuff porn. Her boss, Max (Eric Halsell), is trying to use the profits he's made from Johnny's various exploits to buy his way into the walled, high-security city where the rich live. (The framing device used in the movie is Max's video application for acceptance in the community, actually, and it's worth the price of admission by itself.) Problem is that Johnny has outlived her usefulness; her popularity has plateaued, and Max wants to get her out of the way to make room for his next star. (Oddly, that particular character never turns up; one would have thought the producers, given that they're lampooning cheap exploitation flicks even as they're making one, would have welcomed the chance to put another set of breasts in the movie.) Combine this with a few subplots and a random zombie attack or two, and you've got yourself a no-budget horror movie.
It's all a lot of fun if you take it in the proper manner. No one who was making this movie went into it expecting to come out with another Citizen Kane, and I would hope no one who sees it would be expecting such, either. This is a simple, no-budget exploitation/gore film, and as such, it delivers on every count. The gore effects are low-key, which isn't necessarily a bad thing when you've got no budget (that's how Lewton and Tourneur pulled off some great movies, and really, how many no-budget gorefests have you seen where you spent more time laughing at the bad gore effects than being sickened by them?), and the acting, while obviously amateur, is still at least slightly above average for the movies that you're going to find at this level of the food chain. No, I'm not ashamed to admit it--I had a very good time with Johnny Sunshine: Maximum Violence, and if you give it a shot without expecting too much, I think you will too. ***
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