DVD 2103 - The Deadly Wake
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| Gotta Love It Deadly |  |
Malcolm McDowel is great in this gutsy small picture with big ideas. Cora Fell (Hidie Von Palleske) tells a haunted mythical tale that links us to times past of pirates and ghost ships, but this is the future and its even darker. In a world where the sky burns orange under global warming even the ocean seems a desert, the ship is navigated by an ugly-cute neural-implanted 90 yr old "baby" in some cyber-knetic fluid. Everyone on this ship is mad, like nuts, some just show it earlier than later. Michael Pare plays it nicely (he's the bad guy and McDowell the good guy), in fact they all play it straight. I'm sure the filmmakers (the team of Daniel D'or and G. Phillip Jackson, I think they're the same folks who are doing TV's Starhunter) know they are working with low cash, you can see them wink at the audience, but instead of all being toung-in-cheek, they don't cop out, they have fun with the film. Mackenzie Gray is also convincing as a nutso first mate, an explosives expert with a bad case of the nerves. I for one also really liked Gweneth Walsh (Star Trek -where she also confronted McDowell), she's the sexy manipulator without being typically overt about it, except she was overt about looking like she was having fun. Very nice cybernetic killing machine the ultimate fem-tek fatale I say. I'd like to see this picture with a bigger budget and tighter editing. Good movie overall.
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| Fun Ride, Wierd Sea | |
This is a good surprise, its a strange l'l movie, but kept me entertained and intriugued. So it looks like it didn't have the most money in the world, but it kept the surprises coming and a unique SF feel. McDowel is good, Michael Pare is different (A bad guy) and that's OK Gweneth Walsh has fun with her bits. If the regular SF stuff that looks all the same and tells the same story bores you, you'l probably really like this.The female Killer Cyborg that moves like a dancer is a neat invention.
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Another one in a series of lame, cheap movies from Producers Network Associates (PNA) -- Greystone International -- Danforth Studios -- or whatever the heck they're calling themselves nowadays. "The Deadly Wake" is a deadly bore that stars Michael Pare. In fact Michael Pare seems to star in all the films of these guys and this has had the overall effect of ruining the actor's once promising career.Here's what you can expect from this movie if you're foolish enough to actually rent or buy it: cheap sets, low-grade script, horrible acting, and special effects which look as though they were put together by a mogoloid monkey. There's absolutely nothing to recommend here, so much so that I'm surprised the "film" even managed to get made. Who on Earth was foolish enough to hand these guys money to make it? Do yourself a favor and watch static on your TV, you'll get a heck of a lot more enjoyment out of it.
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