Vigilante

A low budget action film to be sure, and makes no pretense of taking itself seriously, but good fun for this genre. By far the best things about this movie are Lexie Symon who played Pauline and Robert Diaz who played Luke. Robert Diaz, wow gorgeous eye candy. What a body. I have seen him in other shows and in my opinion is quite a good actor. I would really love to see more of this beautiful person on screen, he is right up there with some of the greats. I do enjoy watching Robert Diaz perform on screen, I really think he is a great actor with great screen presence. I also hope to see a lot more of Lexie Symon who in my opinion has a great future on screen just like her leading man Robert Diaz. Keep up the good work.

I just want to say I am proud to be a fellow Australian filmmaker! Or better still a fellow Queensland filmmaker! Or better still an Australian, Queensland, Gold Coast filmmaker! We are rising to the top guys! Aash was one of the first independent genre filmmakers to just get out there and do it, and now there are loads of us following his lead! Vigilante and ICU are great! Well done Aash! We at the Gold Coast Filmmakers group support you! Cant wait for your next film Tormented Souls and hope to be a part of it! I have only made short films so far but features like you Aash are next on my list.

Deb

I too saw this premier in Australia, and had been following its hype through the FB site of a friend of mine. Fortunately the film did meet its potential.

Let me first say that all the younger and older performers and extras all did exceptionally well. I especially liked the adult actor, the father. I suspect the Director & Casting Agent is still happy at this choice. The ending was definitely a surprise, every actor amazed me.

The uses of cityscapes was very cool. Later in the foyer between several movie goers we all commented on how much we enjoyed this film.

I must say in closing how disappointing it is that I read such nasty reports pretending to be "honest appraisal of this movie on this site" they are not mysteriously disappearing. They are being removed by this sites owners and not a technical error and is not indicative of an unwillingness for those involved to accept criticism along with praise? I know this filmmaker and he is happy for those qualified to have their say, but not cowardly fake account set up loser who are so pitiful that they feel the need to make up nasty stories to defame this artist. Overall, this was an entertaining movie in which the script, directing, and choice of adult and teenage leads me to see only one thing. Talent.

Whoever feels the need to bag this film or filmmaker you are wasting your time as there are more fans of this filmmaker who receive their newsletters and will be more than happy to tell it as it is rather than the fools who vote one out of ten then pretend that they are intelligently reviewing. You are not doing anything but wasting your time for we are many.

It is a shame that someone who praises Ozzie Devrish who is in both ICU and Vigilante and The Dark Lurking and who is one of the directors good friends also feels the need to attack Ozzie's friend with such childish venom.

I think this movie needs two grades, one for hardcore rock/metal fans who are ALSO into mixed-martial arts (MMA) and/or the ultimate fighting championship (UFC), and one for a more general audience. My review's for the latter:

'Low budget' says it for the obvious: poor special effects, poor quality audio and video, etc.

But sadly (considering I wish we, Australia, would have more success with movies), it's equally as bad when it comes to the rest: * very weak acting for the most part * poor casting (the main actor looks inherently happy and easygoing, but he's playing an enraged vigilante seeking revenge for a heinous crime) * and the plot is

(a) fairly simple/straightforward,

(b) a copy of plots used in numerous other movies,

(c) no improvement on the plots it's copying

Having lived on the Gold Coast all my life, it was cool to see an action film set here at last.

I know a lot of US films get made here, but rarely are they set here.

Well here is a film where a guy goes nuts on the scum of the street.

My streets!

What a blast!

Sure it was a low budget film but what these guys did with what they didn't have impressed me.

It seems all it lacked was money because the action scenes were great.

Especially the fight scenes.

And the story was great and the acting as well.

Besides the lead guy unfortunately, but everyone else was awesome. Especially Ozzie Devrish and Christian Radford. They cracked me up, oh and their boss who I didn't know.

Anyway rock on Gold coast filmmakers! Keep at it!