According to Wikipedia, this was the first film to ever use the bullet time effect, like in The Matrix. Has anyone seen this film who noticed that effect?
shareYes, it's right at the end. A high-level guard shoots a gun at Dr. Kane at 1:36:10. The bullet takes ten seconds to travel across the room in close-up, by which time Hero Steve Chase has entered the room and is able to deflect the bullet with an ashtray. The special effects are obviously not done as well as in the Matrix, but it's the same gimmick.
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Hey,
does anybody know where we can get this 10 seconds of the bullet time effect?!
We dont want to buy the movie only for this 10 seconds.
Hope that you can help us,
Aness
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V30oRuE-tXQ
better quality wmv version here:
http://lobster1138.com/video/KaKA_Bullet_Scene.wmv
If anyone is interested, there used to be an excellent review by 'montykins' of this film also regarding the "Bullet/Matrix" sequence which I photographed as Director of Photography back in 1980 on the Panavision film :- "Kill and Kill Again". I also posted a lengthy explanation of how we achieved these SFX shots, all in camera...no post or after-effects...also the opening credit seq....Fun and games...Perhaps 'montykins' could make those postings available to us.
tai krige s.a.s.c.
Hi there, tai. I was able to track down montykins' review here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20071102071802/http://www.montykins.com/mkins/000006.html
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It's a second rate movie starring a third rate actor. The "bullet time" was a good effect for The Matrix because it fit, it was centered around computerized special effects. It doesn't fit in this movie because it doesn't make sense, karate or any other form of martial arts cannot stop a bullet, I don't give a *beep* how fast you are.
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I agree, 'the matrix' was a bit second rate, and Keanu Reeves, your right again he's third rate.
lol
Everything will be OK in the end, if it aint OK,it aint the end.
Right on dude, the film sucks royally but is funny as hell. Can't remember when I last saw such fake fight choreography!
shareFor the record, no, there is no "bullet time" effect in this film. There is a slow-motion scene involving a bullet, yes, but that's not what "bullet-time" means. Bullet-time involves chains of cameras all shooting a still image at the same time or close to the same time, with a computer used to seamlessly morph between the images and thus appearing to have a camera move that travels as fast as a bullet, moving large distances while the onscreen action barely moves at all. The technique and the look of the shot in this film are completely dissimilar.
-There is no such word as "alot."
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