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kiwigoldfish's rating
Firstly, the good - this was streaming for free on Youtube. The bad - that was probably still too much to pay.
As I see it, low budget movies like this need to lean into the mayhem to get away with it. This outing aggressively refuses to do so - instead meandering with expository heavy dialogue, long scenes of wandering around yapping, wooden acting and scant signs of the Jersey Devil we dialed in to see.
The third act at least lifts this effort from a 1 or 2 star rating to the lofty heights of 3 stars, as it is only then that things become a little unhinged and fresh. But that doesn't serve to elevate the movie to anything more than 3 stars.
As I see it, low budget movies like this need to lean into the mayhem to get away with it. This outing aggressively refuses to do so - instead meandering with expository heavy dialogue, long scenes of wandering around yapping, wooden acting and scant signs of the Jersey Devil we dialed in to see.
The third act at least lifts this effort from a 1 or 2 star rating to the lofty heights of 3 stars, as it is only then that things become a little unhinged and fresh. But that doesn't serve to elevate the movie to anything more than 3 stars.
This is a glorious b-movie where it seems the scriptwriters were given the brief to forget logic and dial everything up to 11. And it works for it - crazy splatter, a lack of wanting to take itself seriously, hyper-colour palette and Rutger just having a blast.
We watched this hopeful for a dark comedic b-movie, and it delivered in blood-splattered buckets.
Hauer is a nameless hobo who turns up in a new town to discover it's run by a larger than life gang family of ultra-violence and zero consequences.
So, as the title suggest, he gets himself a shotgun and begins to clean up the streets. It's ridiculous, tasteless and glorious.
We watched this hopeful for a dark comedic b-movie, and it delivered in blood-splattered buckets.
Hauer is a nameless hobo who turns up in a new town to discover it's run by a larger than life gang family of ultra-violence and zero consequences.
So, as the title suggest, he gets himself a shotgun and begins to clean up the streets. It's ridiculous, tasteless and glorious.
Just a few minutes into this offering and I realised that The Asylum really missed a trick not calling this movie "Saws." It's got the crazy man making people play games for their lives of Saw, and the shark bits of Jaws. What a blend.
Overall it's a fun enough silly romp of a group of strangers making their way through a series of deadly challenges involving increasingly threatening sharks, and general manufactured peril. All the while being watched by the owner of the island who is seeking his own retribution for reasons they initially cannot fathom.
As with the Asylum, it's all on a shoestring budget. Surprisingly less silly gore than other offerings from this pulp house - which is a shame, we come to these films for the mayhem.
Overall it's a fun enough silly romp of a group of strangers making their way through a series of deadly challenges involving increasingly threatening sharks, and general manufactured peril. All the while being watched by the owner of the island who is seeking his own retribution for reasons they initially cannot fathom.
As with the Asylum, it's all on a shoestring budget. Surprisingly less silly gore than other offerings from this pulp house - which is a shame, we come to these films for the mayhem.