Is it any good?


I've anticipated a second film coming from director Panos Cosmatos for quite some time. I'm a big fan of Beyond the Black Rainbow. So was this film any good?

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If you like people that talk sloooowly, cheap gore effects and bizarre non-sense, you might like it. Personally I'd say the movie is worth a watch simply for the cinematography and atmosphere but it disapointed me in its violence.

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It's a little more mainstream than "Beyond the Black Rainbow" but still definitely worth watching. Cosmatos really has an eye for the bizarre.

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It's definitely a love it or hate it type film, I personally thought it could have done with some editing down especially the first hour of the film. But once Cage goes full on Cage, and the Revenge kicks in it's a enjoyable enough film. Not a classic imo, but it's beautiful to look it and Cage gives one of his better performances and you get interesting villains.

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Not a classic? I don't know about that bud.

It has some very iconic imagery, from the chainsaw fight, to Cage rolling over that metal pinhead and flipping his truck, the LSD lab with the tiger was pretty trippy, and anytime Cage brought out that beautifully crafted axe-spear thing it was all kinds of glorious.

The fight scenes were also WAY better than I expected, and were actually shot clearer and with better choreography than the new Mortal Kombat reboot, which makes no sense to me at all.

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Different strokes for different folks. If you think it's a classic then good for you, I think it's a film that definitely splits opinion and definitely has issues. Rewatched it since, and it's still a good but flawed film with a great performance from Cage, the film is beautiful to look at and soundtrack is great. I'm not knocking it just don't think it's a classic. Gave it a 7/10, that's not a bad score.

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definitely watch it, but I recommend smoking some weed so it makes more sense

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Personally I loved it, which I attribute to my ability to ignore weak/cliche stories as long as the eye candy is worth looking at. (i.e. I have no problem enjoying stuff like Tron Legacy, Prometheus, etc.) This movie delivers visually to the point where that's more than enough. The story isn't bad or weak, really. It's just very simple and nothing new.

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Yeah it's really good. Cage was robbed of a best actor nod.

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LOL

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The lighting and atmosphere are good. The movie itself is not anything too interesting.

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If you`ve ever dropped acid and you like bizarre action, you`ll love this. I thought it was awesome.

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