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Release Date: 03 June, 2003 Retail Price: $14.99 OUR Price: $13.99 You SAVE: $1.00! Cast: |
Invincible Reviews
Nice Action Flick-My rant and rave
I saw this movie when it was first shown on TBS and I thought it was pretty good.This movie definitely has a "Matrix" feel to it.Although it's not the best action movie out now it's still pretty good martial arts/fantasy movie. THE KEYWORD BEING FANTASY.Billy Zane did a nice job with his role as Os(given the fact that I have never seen him do any type of martial arts movies ever) who is tasked with training 4 different people from different areas around the world..A thief,a cop,a soldier,and bodyguard. Now here's a point I wanna make about this movie.
What most of the people who gave this movie bad reviews never understood about the "Element's abilities" is...their powers only enhanced the abilities that they already had...NOT GAVE THEM NEW ONES.Michael & Serena were martial arts experts,Grady had a few moves from when he was a thief, and Ray is a streetfighter so their newfound powers were not meant to turn them all into Jet Li or Jacky Chan.
The swordfights were nice and the martial arts fights were sweet.Although many of the faces in the movies were basically new I seen Byron Mann(Michael Fu)in the Stephen Seagal's Belly of the Beast.Now if you like action/fantasy then I recommend this movie.If you are one of those people who look for realistic things and to make sure everything makes sens in a movie(when in most movies not too much makes sense)then this movie is not for you.Most fantasy were not meant to make sense or to be real
Vanquished
I love corny action movies. They're a guilty pleasure of mine. This, however, went beyond bad. I have never seen a worse movie. Normally, in a good action flick, the dialogue is bad, the plot is lacking, but the action is amazing. In this movie, the dialogue was so bad that my friend and I were gaping at each other in astonishment, the plot was ludicrous and the action was pathetic.
Let's start with the dialogue. Os (Billy Zane) kept waxing poetic, spouting utter nonesense for hours. It was supposed to sound deep. It sounded contrived and fake. There was no emotion to back up his words. What emotion any character tried to show us seemed out of place, fake and there was rarely reasons that they felt anything. Os once is crying with joy. We have no idea why, but it happens.
The plot is very typical. I must admit, I was not expecting wonders here and I was not surprised. It's the same old shtick about how four people must band together to save the world with their magic powers from big bad guys with nefarious evil magic. In itself, this lack of originality wouldn't matter if the acting, dialogue and action were better.
I was really, really disappointed when it came to the action scenes. There was way too much slow motion. When used sparingly and artfully, slow motion can be beautiful. When half the movie is like this, you just want to fastforward through the whole thing. When it wasn't slow mo, it was a strobe effect where everything was cutting and restarting. It was awful and confusing. It also didn't let us see the actor's movement. The moves that we did see were of poor quality and irrealistic.
Other things I didn't like were the very predictable ending and the terrible wig that Billy Zane is wearing in the beginning. It was more frightening than the bad guys. Actually, that wig probably could have been the bad guy. The movie might have been more enterttaining.
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