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P.I. ---- How was this movie even funded?


I saw this movie a few days ago. Not many have seen it, due to it not selling many copies. Probably due to lack of funds to produce copies and most likely due to lack of interest, because of the over saturation of World Wide Disaster movies being released by Hollywood Producers left and right.

This movie looked reasonably acceptable, a good Sci-Fi flick with a good looking plot. Unfortunately, as we all know, some movies can have very deceiving trailers and covers. Take Caution!! If I were to die the moment I saw the worst movie ever made, I would have died when I saw this movie.

Dean Cain has yet again, embarrassed himself and the rest of his cast in another poorly acted part. I have no idea what drug Torsten Dewi was under the influence of while writing this, thus I can draw no conclusion why it was so horribly *beep* . Christopher Schrewe, Director of the complete failure television show Lexx, is again responsible for directing another tragedy.

Many have noticed the poor quality of this piece of *beep* . Many have also suspected it was filmed on Mini-DV, Hi-8 or just 8. It is obvious that it filmed VHS. It is apparent that a poorly timed Phonograph, played on the set itself, was the source of many of the terrible sound effects. It sounded as if the breaking of glass, was imitated by someone rapidly striking a Frying Pan. The Gun-Fire sound bytes, if that, sound as if they were captured from an early 1920's western.

The animated graphics used in this video are almost as bad as the movie itself. What the *beep* were they thinking? It looks as they used video clips from the earliest videogame ever created. There is no doubt in my mind that at least one of the cast members, had requested their face and name to be blurred or blacked out for the entire film.

I have come up with some ideas, things you can do instead of watching this movie.

1.) Beat your head into a brick wall for 95 minutes. This will save you the pain of watching this movie.

2.) Challenge your local gang to a street fight, you against all of them. You will no doubt lose and probably die, but at least you will not have seen this movie.

3.) Trust your instinct. See another movie.

I come to my conclusion that this movie is the GREATEST waste of film EVER. I again warn you, do not subject yourself to this tremendous failure. You will be very angry that you actually rented, or even worse bought this movie, and you are now stuck with it for life. Not only as a possession, but you will retain the memory of this catastrophe. Even if you have one of those unlimited rental agreements, do not psychologically subject yourself to this.

This is my opinion. No offence is intended to anyone. Please respond weather or not you agree.

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Could not agree any stronger!

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I agree that Dean Cain disappointed in his role, but he was absolutely fantastic in Elmer, Charlie and the Talking Buzzard, The Stone Boy, Christine Cromwell: Things That Go Bump in the Night, Going Under, Miracle Beach, Beverly Hills 90210, Touchdown: Football Goes to the Movies, Off Camera with Dean Cain, Cutty Whitman, MTV Rock 'N' Jock Basketball VI, Best Men, Rag and Bone, Eating Las Vegas, Dogboys, Futuresport, Ripley's Believe It or Not!, The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy, No Alibi, Flight of Fancy, Militia, For the Cause, The Runaway, Firetrap, Rat Race, A Christmas Adventure From a Book Called Wisely's Tales, Gentle Ben, Phase IV, New Alcatraz, Dark Descent, The Glow, Christmas Rush, Dragon Fighter, Gentle Ben 2: Danger on the Mountain, Out of Time, The Division, and Grandpa's Place.

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Good to know Dean Cain's publicist is here on IMDB.

Buck Williams
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I had a laugh when you said 'Beat your head into a brick wall for 95 minutes.'

When I saw the case after I watched it, I was expecting to see 140 minutes, but nope, it was only an hour and a half. Read my recent review of it, we actually make some similar points, hah.

TERRIBLE MOVIE

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I've got to agree with all that. This director ( if you can call him that) must have been on crack. He had no ingenuity whatsoever. He made it obvious he had no budget and made everything tacky/wacky. He could have used real snow and models since the computer graphics were so bad. George Lucas did it in the Empire Strikes Back plus Star Wars back in the seventies when he really had a low budget and nobody actors except Alex Guiness I think. Anyway, I have to correct you about something. There is one reason to watch this movie, Joanna Taylor. I'll give this German nutball director credit for seeing one good thing at least. Yet I have to say he screwed that up most of the time. I don't understand that. So I suggest to people to just skip over everything in the movie and just watch Joanna Taylor in two scenes. Her shower scene and her controlling the control room. These two scenes brought some modicum of life to this movie. That all may have been mindless and silly but at least there was some chemistry and acting there. Not mention a little provacative. This terrible director probably kept Joanna Taylor's character SAS Hunley alive as long as possible because she was clearly the only provocative thing this movie had. I hope she gets into better movies. A better director could have used her aggressive, alluring and sexy talents more. Instead this guy decided to use Joanna Taylor's character for bad cliche dialogue most of time with others that had no impact and no depth in their acting like Dean Cain. It's sad to see only one person acting in through the most absurd script and poor acting from others. It can be insightful though. Joanna Taylor carried it out like a trooper at the end. She broke the ice then. If an observation of her helps her get into better movies. It's well worth it. I do like a bad-ass chick that can act. Imagine her in a movie like Ghost of Mars with Rivick.

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I do have to say that this movie is similar in many respects to the classic Starforce 2000. Similar in that the movie as a whole is crap, poor script badly acted and special effects that would have been bad 30 years ago! Also similar in the way the leading bird keeps the attention throughout the movie. Joanna Taylor for her tough and sexy soldier with shower scene antics and Amy Weber for her nice ass and permanantly erect nipples!
If I had to choose the worst I would have to say Starforce 2000 takes the cake but its a must see for those Post Impact fans!

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This movie comes on in exactly 50 minutes. I'm going to watch it for the first time. Pray for me. :)

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