That exclamation mark doesn't do me justice!! Blue isn't really my colour!I'm writing my novel at th...
That exclamation mark doesn't do me justice!! Blue isn't really my colour!I'm writing my novel at the moment so I'm not on here as much as when I first started.
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Starring the very delicious Famke Janssen (Xenia of Goldeneye fame) and Treat Williams (lots of films but never the lead), this is a fun-filled rollercoaster of a ride. There are also a number of even less famous people you have seen before although I do know Wes Studi (Last of the Mohicans - the one with the hatchet and the bad haircut) and the annoying one from The Mummy (quaintly enough, he is annoying in this one too). Serious and thought provoking it ain’t but enjoyable and thoroughly entertaining it is.
A semi-comic, semi-horror, really semi-love story , the basic plot concerns the hijacking of a luxury cruise liner by a bunch of baddies, a few heroes who are in with the wrong crowd and a great bloody big monster with very very long tentacles (hence the title of this piece although granted it has nothing to do with toilet paper!).
I don’t want to give away too much of the storyline (haha - I probably already have) but this is a deceptively good film. It was on Sky a few months back so is probably due another airing soon or you can buy it very cheaply on video (£3.99 sale out of MVC!!).
The acting is pretty harem-scarem but it is a glorified B-movie albeit with much better special effects than most. Some of the dialogue is corny in the extreme and the character development is pretty much non-existent but who cares?? This is entertainment!! It isn’t meant to be Oscar-winning (apologies for the over-use of hyphens in this review) and isn’t quite frankly. Leave your brains in a jar of some cold liquid, settle down on the sofa (long-ways if possible) and let yourself be taken on 106 minutes of exhilirating, shoot-’em-up mayhem.
There are a few wisecracks, lots of annoying characters but the pace is excellent and it just keeps moving along. Directed by Stephen Sommers of never-really-heard -of-him fame, it really is quite good. The monster is pretty impressive too and a little bit different from the usual monster-types. There are great multi-barrelled machine guns on display, lots of running, some scary bits, lots of shrieking, some swearing, no sex (but Famke is still a sexy babe and currently going out with some semi-famous actor whom I can’t remember!).
It might be a late Friday night movie or even Saturday night but it doesn’t matter. I bought it on video. I can watch it anytime I feel like! And I frequently do as I am sad that way. It’s just one of those films I can watch over and over again. Don’t ask me why? Even Frasier would struggle to find a reason for that? It’s just fact!
Enjoy.
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