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Release Date: 30 September, 2003 Retail Price: $19.95 OUR Price: $17.99 You SAVE: $1.96! Cast: Complete Cast (7 total) |
The Castle of Fu Manchu Reviews
Do not attempt to watch without the help of MST3K
Fu Manchu's evil plan? Control the world's oceans by making . . . ice! I think that was the plot anyway. It's hard to tell since not a darn thing in the movie makes any sense. Fu seems to need some scientist's help, but the man has a bad heart. So Fu kidnaps a heart surgeon and has him replace the man's heart with one from a perfectly healthy young man. So the scientists is still alive, but we never find out why that is so important. He never actually does anything. The British eventually find Fu and foil his plans, but again, how did they find him? The movie is so incoherent. Things happen and get edited in with other scenes of things happening and voila, we have a movie. This had to be Christopher Lee's easiest movie to make. He delivers his lines in a monotone and his face never shows any emotion no matter what happens. The acting is pretty bad from everyone involved but only to keep up with the inexplicably weird direction.
If you feel you must watch this movie, you're taking a college film course or you've made a pact with the devil, then by all means get the Mystery Science Theater 3000 version and at least get some laughs out of the experience.
For MST3K fans with an IMDB rating of 3.3
That about says it all put the name Jess Franco and you'll know your in for either a dull time or a weird time. His exploitation films like Ilsa the Wicked Warden and others are fun to watch because he at least is able to work around some plot and action with shameless nudity to keep the viewer interested.
This movie has none of it!!!! Also don't get fooled by the other reviews praising this mess, it's a badly acted, badly directed movie that puts the talents of Christopher Lee to shame. This is one of those type of movies that good actors tend to forget about because they stand as a bad stain (See Al Pacino in "Cruising"). There is nothing historical here except another log entry into the bad movie cinema with Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Some trademarks of Franco's ahem "filmmaking" skills are leaving the camera in one place while the action happens outside of it, bad editing, horrible lighting skills, and basically the inability to deliver one effective scene after another. That is about obvious in this nightmare called "The Castle of Fu-Manchu". Some scenes are poorly
lit or just plain dark (when they're not supposed to be!!!"
The plot about Fu controlling the oceans to rule the world is just plain stupid and idiotic and should have been shot down in the film meetings. Idiotically enough Franco thought they we're good ideas and made the movie anyways. The one part that was fun was seeing Fu's Henchman storm a castle and kill of the guards of a wealthy european.
The other parts in the movie were less interesting, although the actress who plays his Asian daughter is really hot. There is nothing to write home about here though. The acting is laughable even by Mr. Christopher Lee himself, and some
of his goons with the Shriner hats just look like idiots.
This is a bad movie that only MST3K lovers will see. This isn't a "cult film" because to be classified as that it would have to have some value and this movie does not have any value. Franco will be remembered as one of the most mediocre European directors ever. His venture to direct horror movies seems more like an exercise into comedy and he can't even begin to be in the same league as Ruggero Deodata or Lucio Fulci.
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