Serial Killers

I have seen this film on my local video store shelf for years but never rented it until last night. I must say it is not what I was expecting, but I found it quite entertaining. It was one hell of a crazy trip, and every time I thought I knew what was going on there was another twist. I recommend it to those who loved the insanity of Natural Born Killers, or if you just want to try something different. Dave Larsen as Odessa displayed some great acting abilities and reminded me of Mickey Rourke back in his hay days, not to mention he looked bad ass with skeleton face make-up and wielding a shotgun. The acting by C.T. Miller as Mr. Ryan and Nanette Bianchi as Jami entertained the hell out of me, and I loved every minute of it. This movie had me cracking up from beginning to end, and was quite surprised by all the crazy twists. See this film........

I know a guy who came to me and told me that he had a movie he claimed to be very good. If I liked Natural Born Killers and From Dusk Till Dawn, I will love this movie. He couldn't have been more wrong. In two words, it sucked. But to use more words than that, I will say that the movie had a very funny story, it was a very nice little story concerning a couple guys who just broke out of jail and take cover in a nice suburban household. It seems dark and gloomy at first, but 50 minutes later we are revealed to a nice array of insanity. The movie actually fools you into liking it by the end. The point is, the dialogue takes more centerstage than it should and half the time, you dont even know whats going on. Nice story, bad movie. No wonder I have never heard of it before.

I saw a midnight premiere of this movie in college and it quickly disappeared, but it stuck in my head long after I forgot the title, and I'm lucky I re-found it. No one in that theater knew what to expect from this movie, and it start out as everyone's worst nightmare: a cheap, clichéd crime drama. A lot of people walked out after the first 20 minutes, but I was determined to stick it through. And I'm really glad I did.

At the twist point in this movie, the horrible clichés and acting and directing of the first half feel like an amazingly underplayed setup to a punchline with actual humor and shock. Imagine "From Dusk till Dawn" if the vampire angle hadn't been completely ruined by over promotion.

It's really rare that a movie seems to be one thing but then turns completely around halfway through into something 10x better, but this is one of those. It used the low expectations and low budget to it's own advantage and turned out a movie I never forgot.

this is bad. this is very bad. i had this recommended to me by several friend and i've cut off all subsequent communication with them in the three years since. it's that bad. the dialogue is so conveluted and eager to try to be cool that it takes on the dimensions of a beggar. The acting is probably is decent but given the material it's impossible to tell who's at fault for this train wreck. I was bored to a navel gazing introspection long before the sixty minute mark and from there it continues down hill. I'd rather watch Henry: Portrait of A Serial Killer, or Vulgar, or Natural Born Killers, or anything but beaches.

It's too bad Mike Mendez was involved hilarious budgetly challenged Bimbo Movie Bash. I wanted to like this movie but each terrible moment of celluloid was working against me.

2 out of 10 file under the category of "so bad it skips being wonderfully bad and goes right back to just plain awful"

Okay, I'm pretty sure that during the production of "Killers" director Mike Mendez and writer Dave Larsen heavily dreamed of becoming the next David Lynch... or maybe even the next Quentin Tarantino, but in order to achieve this, they should have put a little more thought in their extremely weird and dumb screenplay. Just what the hell is this supposed to be? A hard-boiled thriller, a demented black comedy or perhaps another social mockamentary pointing out to us how easily we glorify violence. The title priority refers to the notorious James brothers; two handsome but relentless maniacs sentenced to death for murdering their parents. They now escaped from their maximum-security cells and travel through California, until they take a middle-class family hostage in the quiet little town of Beatty. However, the Ryan family members aren't as defenseless as they seem. The women, Mrs. Ryan and her two teenage daughters, followed the James brothers' trial on television and developed a huge crush on their perpetrators. But that's still the least of their concerns, as the family also hides far crazier secrets. The sudden plot twist near the middle is extremely retarded, but at least it woke me up again! I already started dozing off since it looked like another pseudo-intellectual portrait about serial killers that seem to have all the knowledge in the world and yet use it to commit crimes. The dialogs are fluent, but they handle about everything you already heard before (in "Natural Born Killers") and some of the unexpected twists are really too crazy for words. There's plenty of violence but I still somehow expected "Killers" to be more grim and sadistic. It's mainly gunfire action and shouting, so I anticipated a little more physical violence, reminiscent to – for example – the torture scenes in "Reservoir Dogs". The plot holes and improbabilities are too numerous to mention, but the acting performances are decent and there's even some on screen sleaze to admire as well. "Killers" is not a total waste of time, but it's severely lacking personality and power to become a cult favorite.