The question is not "why?" but "how?" when it comes to the terribleness of this "movie". It's obvious the makers had delusions of grandeur, but were forced to work under restrictions.
They had no budget, so all the FX is self-consciously "stylicized" to look unreal. Sadly, it just looks absolutely ****. How did they manage that?
They had to deliver a Guns & Blades Movie with a PG-13 rating, so all the fights are "coreographed" so that no blood ever spills on screen. Sadly, it just makes all battles totally unengaging and laughable: Violet's blades never even become bloody, no matter how many men she stabs! How did they ever think it would work?
The movie is also horribly overwritten, forgetting the Rule of Cool: Unless your movie is Inception or The Matrix, do NOT try combining the cool and the cerebral - just pose like hell and don't outstay your welcome. Even at 88 minutes the movie manages to be too long. The six minutes longer unrated version is not likely to improve the movie because of the final "how?"
How can the movie look so painfully unreal that after 20 minutes your eyes are likely to start bleeding? When the prevents the viewer from suspending their disbelief and constantly screams at the viewer that they are watching a lousy, lousy movie, any attraction for the movie is impossible.
One of the worst "movies" I've ever seen. So ironical that it is a Screen Gems production... Well, at least it was on TV for free.
They had no budget, so all the FX is self-consciously "stylicized" to look unreal. Sadly, it just looks absolutely ****. How did they manage that?
They had to deliver a Guns & Blades Movie with a PG-13 rating, so all the fights are "coreographed" so that no blood ever spills on screen. Sadly, it just makes all battles totally unengaging and laughable: Violet's blades never even become bloody, no matter how many men she stabs! How did they ever think it would work?
The movie is also horribly overwritten, forgetting the Rule of Cool: Unless your movie is Inception or The Matrix, do NOT try combining the cool and the cerebral - just pose like hell and don't outstay your welcome. Even at 88 minutes the movie manages to be too long. The six minutes longer unrated version is not likely to improve the movie because of the final "how?"
How can the movie look so painfully unreal that after 20 minutes your eyes are likely to start bleeding? When the prevents the viewer from suspending their disbelief and constantly screams at the viewer that they are watching a lousy, lousy movie, any attraction for the movie is impossible.
One of the worst "movies" I've ever seen. So ironical that it is a Screen Gems production... Well, at least it was on TV for free.