Review of Brutal

Brutal (2006)
so bad it gets "brutal"
22 February 2008
Warning: Spoilers
4 guys kidnap a girl in order to ask her father for ransom. they take her to a basement where they start killing each instead of doing nasty things to her.

Story/script: As the director himself admits, there was no screenplay for this and this is more than obvious. Sequences that never end, endless swearing (as if anybody will be impressed) and badly executed fight scenes between the guys.

Acting: Horrible. The director stars once again and is bad beyond belief with an annoying Northern accent. The rest are also bad, including some old guy who is probably the director's dad. Since there was no script the cast obviously had to improvise. problem is none of the actors is good enough to do that and the results are... bad.

Direction, etc: No direction. My grandma could probably do better if somebody told her to grab a mini-DV camcorder and start filming random stuff. Camera work is so shaky and photography is so bad you can hardly see what is going on. poor locations. horrible editing job. picture quality is so low its hard to believe and this looks no better the average home video that a 10-year old kid would make. Special effects are lame to say the least.

sound/Music: sound is so badly recorded you can hardly hear what the "actors" are saying. music is death metal. The director is obviously a fan of that kind of music and never misses a chance to show us. At least you can bang your head while watching.

result: a total waste of time, this pathetic excuse of a movie that has the nerve to call itself "snuff" for commercial reasons. problem here is that "Brutal" is unwatchable. This mini-DV abomination looks like the work of somebody who has absolutely no clue on cinema and film making.
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