I'm going to show you some germs that will make your eyes go out of orbit! It just so happens that if a movie or a book has an interesting idea that no one has played before, then there are a lot of people who sleep and see them make a movie or write a book that is the same as the original, only twenty percent cooler. Naturally, such people, as a rule, have no idea what a good film is, so they write down their thoughts on paper and call this nonsense a script, although in my opinion it should be called somewhat differently, namely toilet paper. And our guest today, who is a tracing to the movie Escape from New York/Los Angeles, is a vivid example of that. The name of this movie monster is “New City of Crime”.
2020. Los Angeles has become a zone of antisocial elements, but unlike Carpenter’s film, this hotbed of crime is not a floating island, but still a part of America. Well, then one of the criminal leaders of Los Angeles throws all his forces in order to invent a biological weapon, thanks to which he will be able to dictate conditions to the world in general and the American president in particular. And you won’t believe it, biological weapons were invented. Without labs and materials, literally created on the knee by one man. And how did the U.S. government manage to lock up such a talented virologist? Never mind. So the criminal demands that the doors of the prison, which is Los Angeles, be opened, otherwise he threatens to spray the virus. What does the US president and the Council of Ministers do? Maybe they're sending a rapid-reaction team to defuse a dangerous criminal? Nope. Or maybe they decide to drop a nuclear bomb on Los Angeles and let the consequences be catastrophic, but it would be much better than the proliferation of biological weapons. Not again. Then what? Oh, they again resort to the help of Snake Plisky... sorry, Anthony Ricks, a tough cop who allegedly fights for ordinary people and hates all sorts of officials. Appealing to the conscience of the hero, as well as promising the latter freedom, the military send Anthony to Los Angeles without even bothering to provide the latter with various gadgets that could make life easier for the hero. So how will he deal with a crowd of brutal bandits? Naturally with bare hands!
This is the plot of the picture, which on paper does not look so bad, but you should not deceive yourself, dear viewer, since the film is as bad as it is at all possible for a work of art. Why? The answer, as usual, is slightly lower.
Let’s start with the main thing, namely the story. Well, he's not. The government decides to imitate the death of the main character, and then send the latter to Los Angeles with a mission, but this does not make sense, because if Anthony Ricks is so famous as they say, then at least the bus driver saw the hero’s face, and at most he was seen by a dozen onlookers who recently watched on TV the execution of “American hero”. But whether it will happen, because the main character was not drugged with a deadly virus and not implanted in the body of a bomb, and all he was told was either you go to Los Angeles, find a virus and we let you go ... maybe, or you are put in the electric chair, and the city is compared to the ground. Agree, a rather weak motivation, especially if you take into account that there is no normal person in the city, but about this a little later. But the main character, deprived of intelligence, agrees and goes to Los Angeles, but once there, Ricks forgets about his task and begins to inspect the sights, along the way killing cannibal monks, a crazy old woman in a dress Alice from Wonderland, and people in the garments waving pans. Yes, I know how funny this sounds, but the film is not trying to be a parody of cool action movies, it looks and behaves surprisingly seriously, and this very seriousness catches up with sadness and sleep. No, of course, towards the end, the main character will face a bad guy, but it does not look like an elaborate plot move, but rather an attempt to give the picture integrity, the unsuccessful one should notice, but it is better than none at all.
As for the “human factor”, everything is bad. None of the actors even tries to play, so what is there, I am not even sure that most of the people who starred in the film had any idea what the acting is, and therefore there are wooden dummy with stone faces throughout the film and are happy. Naturally, in this scenario, neither characters nor intelligible dialogues were brought, but they brought cheap American pathos, which is saturated with the whole film.
Action? God forbid! I am not sure that it is possible to shoot an action movie even worse than our current guest, because not only does the fist not even come into contact with the face of the supostate during the fights, so the creators skimped on showing chases on cars that were borrowed from the nearest landfill, there will be no chase, but instead of the “races” themselves, the viewer will look at the characters who do not express anything. Naturally, there is no question of any explosions and beautifully staged shootings, it is a miracle that the creators had enough money for red ketchup, otherwise everything would be bad at all.
To sum up, I want to say that the film turned out stupid and bland. This is a film that has no artistic value and the best thing you can do, dear viewer, is bypass this film, thank you.
1 out of 10