mark_devlin

The film is beautifuly filmed although the graininess and narrow dynamic range partially counteract that. It depicts a snakes and ladders series of bullying, everyone takes what opportunities they get to make life sour for the others around them but there is no static pecking order as everyone has different levels of leverage with everyone else. Entertaining for a cineast but not so much for anyone else.

This is a truly awful film, that has to be said, but somehow they've put so much energy into the special effects that it becomes sort of compelling, in the sense you want to see how bad it can get. The plot is a very basic, juvenile fantasy of good and evil. In this case evil in corrupt politicians who are run by evil forces from another dimension opposed by the good guys, a joint effort of a rebellious vigilante group, a lone wolf special ops agent and som white magic types that look like they may have escaped from a Canadian spin-off of Lord of the Rings together with the cheesy green screen backgrounds. The overall effect is rather as if you would start off with a Turkish soap opera, add some Transporter, a dash of The Matrix, some snatches from Counterstrike. It has a certain entertainment value if you don't have to pay for it.