Killer Instinct - Big Cats DVD

Advantages: Dreadful acting, terrible direction, woeful production values and abysmal script
Disadvantages: It made me laugh, though I don't think it was supposed to

...Catherine Tramell is back! This time the sex-crazed killer is implicated in her footballer husband's death. A staid British psychiatrist is brought in to unravel her secrets, but he soon begins to fall under her spell. British director Michael Caton-Jones must be hard up for work if this is what he's making. It feels like career suicide just watching it. He's clearly from the school of obvious film-making, if this cut-and-paste job is anything to go by. There's nothing in the least bit original about any facet of it. London is shot mainly at night, swathed in neon blues, in an attempt to make it sexy. Everyone in the movie appears to be rich and playful if the number of big houses, apartments and cocktail parties are anything to go by. Catherine's risk addiction is embodied solely by her chain-smoking and sexual activity is always... Read review

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Advantages: Entertaining, easy to watch
Disadvantages: Hard to take the plot too seriously

...without sex and nudity, but it is a very small part of the film and the 'horror' elements are tame compared to, for example, some of the Korean horror films I have seen. Based on a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, the film is about killer cats. As such, it almost goes without saying that the plot is a bit daft. Perhaps because I love cats so much myself, I couldn't bring myself to believe what I was seeing on the screen. This put me off a bit to begin with. However, once I had got used to the idea, I started watching the film from a different perspective, and began to enjoy it. I wouldn't call it a comedy, but there is quite a lot of black humour in the film and this made it very easy to watch. Plus the Englishness of the setting is stressed throughout - I don't know where it was filmed, but it really is picture-perfect, particularly the house... Read review

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Advantages: A good fun easy-going watch
Disadvantages: Too much CGI and Benjamin Bratt

.... Patience's latest assignment is to design the ad campaign for Hedare Beauty's next big thing - the launch of a revolutionary beauty cream that claims to reverse the effects of aging. One morning, while trying to rescue a stray cat from a ledge outside her apartment, Patience's life is saved by passing police detective Tom Lone, but in a rush to get to work on time she drops her wallet, enabling Tom to track her down and ask her out for a date. But Patience will never make that date, because that very night is when her problems begin. Her uncompromising boss George Hedare has given her a deadline for her latest designs, and knowing that she'll get fired if they don't reach him on time, Patience decides to take them to him herself. She arrives at a shady looking head quarters and inadvertently stumbles across a nasty little secret about Hedare... Read review

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