hardcoremoose

Overall, this film is a mixed bag.

The acting is acceptable and the production values are decent. There are plot holes, but given the budget and subject matter, these can be overlooked. This film is more about mood anyway, and the actors and director do a good job of establishing that without digressing to unintentinal camp and humor, as often happens with zero-budget films. Some of the dialogue is a bit stilted, but the actors pull it off with a fair degree of credibility (the fact that they are British helps; their proper way of speaking helps with the goofy-sounding verbiage).

The real problem with this film is that there's not enough going on in it. There is some violence, some of it disturbing, but a little more action would have made this film a lot more entertaining.

This film is good for a rental, but you won't get enough viewings out of it to make it worth owning.

This film is critic-proof. Any film that blends horror, kung-fu, and action with such reckless abandon while demonstrating such a blatant disregard for even the most basic elements of narrative structure simply can not be judged in any normal way. Oh yes, you can certainly form your own opinions about it, but to analyze it critically (which presumes an intellectual dialogue of some sort) puts you in the same category as all those helpful people who keep trying to tell me that pro-wrestling is fake - you're way too serious for your own good. I know pro-wrestling is fake, just like I know this movie stinks by all normal standards, but I love them anyway, not in spite of those 'shortcomings', but because of them.

So if you love gore, crazy action, bad dubbing, and general strangeness, this is the film for you.