Haphazard

Haphazard is a film that's hard to categorize, and great fun because of it. The plot is straight forward enough and easy to follow, as different people all fight to get the same object (No spoilers). What makes it stand out from other micro budget action flicks is the quality of some of the action sequences and the moments of absurd humour. It is definitely not a film that takes itself too seriously. It runs quickly at a fast paced 90 minutes, and should keep you entertained right up until the end.

Heavens, what a mess! Given that it must have had the tiniest of budgets, it actually starts off not too badly, but as the story progresses it loses all sense of direction and degenerates into a pretty disappointing search for an hard drive. This drive contains satellite codes that activate missiles that could lead to world destruction - though not before the end of this ninety minutes of overly choreographed CGI-heavy thriller. The fight scene are lengthy and repetitive, the script is pretty banal and none of the actors looked like they really cared one way or the other about the quality of their routinely lacklustre performances. To be fair, it does not hang about - what action they have created comes thick and fast and deliberately, or otherwise, it does raise the odd smile. Quite how this ever got funded is anyone's guess, though, and it's really pretty poor.

I really enjoyed this, see it if you love action movies, and want to see more indie genre movies like this!

Shallow acting, obviously choreographed fights (I know fights are choreographed in movies, but these were ridiculous), poor dialogue, mediocre plot (but incongruous). This movie could have easily been made better with the same budget. The best thing was the music soundtrack, but the overall sound (editing, mixing, engineering) was of poor quality with some dialogue lost in ambient noise. Sorry to see that Selina Lo needed to do this movie for whatever reason. It certainly did not advance her career; not something to use as a job reference.

There is plenty of action, but it seems forced and at times quite foolish. If you find this movie funny then you have not watched a truly funny movie. Same goes for the action. I cannot understand how anyone who has watched many movies can give this movie anything above a 5 out of 10 rating. I have seen worse films, but this is not one that I would consider giving a second watching.

Ok, I'm seventeen minutes into this film and I can't believe the 10/10 ratings. The sound quality is brutal, as if I'm listening while wearing earmuffs. The acting is mediocre at best, especially the silly Russian accents. This is supposed to be an action film yet the action sequences I've seen so far leave a lot to be desired. I'll see where this goes but so far I'm not hopeful.