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1.0 out of 5 stars
Awful!, February 5, 2008
This review is from: Razorteeth (DVD)
This is a case where Amazon needs a zero star setting. This film completely re-defines what really bad cinema is like. Holy gazoly! Maybe it should be shown to high school students as an example of what NOT to do! The acting is so bad that it is hard to believe people off the street could do worse. The costumes are wrong, as well as awful. Would a government agent snoop around the woods in a suit and tie (in summer), and wearing white sneakers? It is all wrong.
The piranhas are all stuffed and look dead. The "action" and "underwater" scenes are completely faked, and look it.
The settings are fake, too, and look really cheap, and amateurish. The "fancy hotel" looks like one of those roadside tourist stations when you enter a state. In fact, I think it was!
But the worst is yet to come: when people die in this film, and piranha-death would be really painful, the victims don't scream, there merely, and softly, go "oh-oh-oh" sort of like a bored orgasm.
Oddly, the director's comments were done really well--almost as if that was the rationale for making this movie.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
A Decent Film, August 11, 2011
This review is from: Razorteeth (DVD)
This Piranha Rip Off actually isn't AS bad as the people say it is. It does have VERY bad acting, bad settings, etc. But the storyline is original.
The film starts off with a plane crashing into a river. The plane is carrying Piranha's and they escape. A CIA agent is sent out to take care of the problem and kill whoever is aware of the fish.
A resort owner is aware of the problem and goes out to stop them as well.
One mans girlfriend goes out into the lake and dies, which leads him to go out and hunt as well.
So this film ends up with all the characters coming together and meeting their fate, which they all do.
At the end, the CIA agent, after taking care of the fish, he goes into his van, turns it on and -BOOOM-, his automobile explodes! Of course the explosion is SOOO FAKE...literally its just a fire ball and that's it. Turns out the man who sent the agent to kill the fish sent another man to kill him!.....very confusing if you haven't seen the film all the way through. (Which might be impossible!)
The music on this film is rather odd. It's like techno music but it kind of fits somehow.
The DVD itself is very good! The disc looks better than most of the DVD's you would find in stores. The special features include a Behind-the-Scenes and Commentary track by the Directors.
If you like B-Movie's, this one is for you.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Inept, January 26, 2009
This review is from: Razorteeth (DVD)
A plane carrying piranha crashes into a resort lake, releasing its cargo. The fish then attack people, both in and out of the lake.
Nearly everything about this movie is inept, but there is one moment that, at least for me, signaled the lack of any possibility of redemption. A man who has gone to the area to investigate the crash checks in at a resort hotel, where the clerk hands him a room key. However, when the camera zooms in, we see that the key is actually for a Toyota. Apparently, nobody in the crew or cast had any other key. Then, when the man returns to his vehicle rather than the room, a strange man hobbling on a Tiny Tim-like crutch approaches and warns, in the most hackneyed Scooby-Doo homage, that the traveler should go away.
This low-budget fare should be avoided. You're much better off seeing Piranha;, Piranha 2: The Spawning; Piranha; Piranha, Piranha; or, indeed, DVD Lens Cleaner.
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