Reviews

The thing with this movie is that Crawl or Die seems to be intent on setting up Tank as a NEW badass Action Girl for a TRILOGY of Crawl or Die movies.

You could probably blame the weird explosive power of the shotguns or how bullets create a completely unrealistic shower of sparks on metal surfaces, but I think pretty much everyone who watches this movie is more than willing to suspend that little bit of disbelief if it means seeing these guys abs...

The first 3/4ths of the movie is setup for Linda Blair's character, Brenda, establishing her character as the likable punk girl.

The action is easily the best thing the movie has going for it though, so as much as will argue that it's a better movie than both Turbo Kid and Death Race 2000 as a whole, it has neither the nostalgic charm or comedic edge of those movies.

It's tough to go much deeper without a rewatch which I'll probably do at some point, but for now I'm going to look up Nightwish, because as much as I like this movie, it must have REALLY SUCKED to see it piss 3 million dollars away at the box office.

The movie even made me laugh a couple times and after seeing it I desperately want to see more movies follow in it's footsteps and pay homages to those "totally rad" movies of the past the same way Black Dynamite parodied and exemplified the blaxploitation genre.

*SPOILERS* Anytime I describe this movie to someone with the phrase, "and they've got this one truck dedicated to war drums and one guy with a double-necked flamethrower electric guitar to provide backing music" and the person I'm talking to responds with anything other than, "that's ****ing awesome...

Locke is one of the rare few movies I've not only given a 5 out of 5, but it is one of the even rarer movies where I gave it that score after a blind viewing, and it is one of the rarest of possible movies to make me cry.

After watching the first two movies recently I noticed something though: They made a Stand Alone Complex compilation movie.

It's not a movie, it's a 30-minute OVA, and not even a very good one.