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Soo confused... I have questions. Spoilers, obviously.

posted 11 years ago by paultagonist
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It had some great shots, and wonderful, surreal imagery. So at least there was something to look at to keep your attention on the screen. But what the purpose of it all was, and how it fit into the story they were trying to tell.. well I couldn't always figure that out. A shame. It's like they cobbled together parts and tried to string a narrative throughout. I was also expecting more undead zombie action. So here's some questions off the top of my head.. maybe someone can answer them:

Who were those zombies down in that underground tunnel thing? I assume they were guys Snipes had previously shot, but why did they act more like regular mindless zombies? None of the rest of them did that.

Why are their eyes sometimes that green color and sometimes a regular color?

Why were all those people arrested towards the beginning of the film and then taken to Enoch's Hammer?

What was that cult in the Enoch's Hammer town all about? Did that have anything to do with anything? Why were their heads all super blonde but the sheriff's wasn't?

Why did that guy keep sewing his mouth shut?

Why did the bad guy want to find those nuns?

Why was that scene with him all bald and painted up completely out of order? There was no indication it was supposed to be a flashback. That really confused me until much later in the movie.

So much I just didn't understand! I'd like to see it re-edited in a more chronological order, with the slow parts just a teensy bit faster. I'd also like to see the over-the-top acting from Snipes and the lead bad guy fixed, but no editing in the world can fix that.

The real trick to life is not to be in the know, but to be in the mystery. -Fred Alan Wolf

[–] ericthered01 11 years ago

I'm just as confused as you. Nothing in this movie made any sense. I love Wesley Snipes but this was horrible. You could re-edit, re-cut, or do whatever you want to this movie and it would be like trying to shine a turd. Complete waste of time.

[–] terrencepatrix 11 years ago

I never even understood the point of the gunman or the prostitute. They didn't actually do anything the entire movie. The prostitute was especially useless...why were the bad guys after her anyway?

Sorry no answers, only more questions here.

Oh but as for finding the nuns I did understand that part. They weren't after the nuns, they were after their cave I guess. I guess there was supposed to be some kind of magic or something to bring his dead son back to life.

No idea how or why that would work though.

[–] HopeOfTheFuture 11 years ago

TThe bad guy wanted the prostitute to become the body of his son. The villain's son didn't return to life because he had taken his own life instead of being killed by Snipes in the past. The villain wanted the his son to return to life in the cave (guess he still needed those nuns who were never to be found) in the body of that prositute. Why didn't find a male body for his son wasn't clear to me.

DOES THE NOISE IN MY HEAD BOTHER YOU?

[–] HopeOfTheFuture 11 years ago

Why did that guy keep sewing his mouth shut?

I think he had issues with the fact that they had raped a woman. Reminder he was wearing those crosses like he was a man with faith. Guess he regretted the action and sewed his lips together.

Why did the bad guy want to find those nuns?

His sun didn't come to back to life. His son had hung himself in that prison, so Snipes didn't kill him. Because Snipes had not killed him, he did not come back to life as part of the curse that did struck his father. So the father wanted to find the cave and the nuns to return life to his son.

Why was that scene with him all bald and painted up completely out of order? There was no indication it was supposed to be a flashback. That really confused me until much later in the movie.

That was the flashback in which Snipes kills all the people wo raped his girlfriend. He goes to the prison with the paint on this face, kills all the people. Then the rides away but gets shot from a distance from the guy who survived the killing (the guy who gave the keys to the villain in that same flashback). Snipes dies but his witch mother brings him back to life by sacrificing her own life and starting the curse that all the people who Snipes had killed, come back to life. The whole prison scene with the paint on his face is the flashback in which Snipes exacts his revenge.

DOES THE NOISE IN MY HEAD BOTHER YOU?

[–] Zipper69 10 years ago

Yes, I'm sure those with the fortitude to sit through the whole thing had the same questions. HopeOfTheFuture gives some helpful (and I think correct) answers.

The movie itself was chaotic, the early slaughterhouse/railway scene showed promise and if that tempo had been maintained we could have enjoyed the ride.

I agree that a re-edit putting it into chronological order would be a good start, that, plus a more comprehensive voice over (Snipes telling the story)would lift it out of the schlock pile it's in right now.

The strange imagery, the cult, Enoch's Hammer and the lack of clarity on the origins of the zombeism cloud what should otherwise be a straightforward Western revenge tale.

The collision between the ultra realism of the jail wagon/mass hanging scenes and the zombie underground nonsense makes me think they had an original script from 2006 that had passed over several desks and accumulated revisions, deletions and suggestions that never saw a script editor before the cameras started rolling.
The cool cartoon figures at the end made me think for a moment the story had actually originated in a graphic novel, perhaps that's where it belongs...

Come on lads, bags of swank!