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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Don't Let The Title Fool You, July 12, 2007
Brutal is quite possibly one of the worst slasher movies out there, mainly because for most of its running time it forgets that it's a dumb slasher movie. It takes itself too seriously and focuses too much of its time on an adulterous couple, and on shoddy detective work.
B-movie legends Jeffrey Combs (Re-Animator) and Michael Berryman (The Hills Have Eyes; The Devils Rejects) both star, but they turn in disappointing performances. Perhaps its because both of their characters are so badly written.
However, Brutal does have a few bloody good deaths, and I've seen worse. So I'm going to be nice and give it two stars.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
No this film was not 'Brutal'............., December 6, 2007
This film is an absolutely worthless bottom of the barrel low budget horror film. I haven't seen a film this bad in a while it was even worse than Hannibal Rising and Black Christmas 2006. Despite the title of the film it just wasn't that gory or brutal instead it was very lame and the acting was laughable not even Jeffery Combs or Micheal Berryman could save this mess, the film is about a young female police officer who is investigating a few murders in a small town shes also having an affair with the sheriff played by Jeffery Combs who is married and has kids woooow how boring. The script was badly written and was very weak and the killer was quite pathetic he kidnaps women and likes to torture and kill them in his basement, he uses a power drill and a chainsaw but the death scenes were very disappointing cause you don't get to see anything it was badly shot which also shows how untalented this director really is. Who actually budgets this (...)? these straight to video horror films are beginning to get on my nerves and they all look the same avoid this film at all costs.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Brutal-ly bad., November 19, 2008
Brutal (Ethan Wiley, 2007)
Wiley (House II) wrote, produced, and directed this straight-to-video standard slasher schlock that's only notable for its surprisingly fine cast. Jeffrey Combs (ReAnimator) plays Jimmy Fleck, a small-town sheriff who's married to the local councilman's daughter but getting some on the side with his hot deputy Zoe (Sarah Thomson of Cruel Intentions II). When a serial killer starts operating in the town, Jimmy seems less than concerned about things, and his half-hearted efforts to find the killer lead Zoe to Leroy Calhoun (The Hills Have Eyes' Michael Berryman, one of America's more underrated talents), an autistic man who raises bloodhounds. Can Zoe uncover the killer's identity before he gets around to killing her (because, after all, small towns have a finite supply of nubile young women)?
It's stupid, but unintentionally funny in a number of places, and any chance one gets to see Michael Berryman on the screen should be eagerly accepted. (Thankfully, his career is in the middle of a renaissance right now thanks to The Devil's Rejects, and I couldn't be happier.) But the real prize here is Jeffrey Combs, who for what seems like the first time isn't in a role where he's parodying Herbert West. Hey, the guy can actually do something else! Honest to Pete!
Still, though, if Combs, Berryman, and a seemingly endless parade of hot chicks isn't enough to keep you interested, then pass on this one. The plot is cookie-cutter, the script boneheaded, the direction uninspired. There are actually Sci-Fi Channel Original Movies you'll have more fun with, and that's saying something. * ½
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