Greetings And Salutations, and welcome to my review of The Love Factor - aka Zeta One; here's the breakdown of my ratings:
Story: 1.00 Direction: 1.00 Pace: 1.00 Acting: 1.00 Enjoyment: 0.25
TOTAL: 4.25 out of 10.00.
Calling The Love Factor a comedy is tenuous at best because there are few titters in this picture - either intentional or unintentional. It's a case of titter ye not. What's worse is that the film possesses a decent story idea, not too terrible direction, and a talented cast. But yet it fails immensely to entertain.
I particularly liked the notion of interdimensional humanoid beings coming to Earth and pilfering our female population to repopulate theirs. It's sound and offers many possibilities. Michael Cort and Alister McKenzie primarily offer up a delightful narrative. Sadly, the characterisations and comedic elements deflate the story of its power. The Love Factor is supposed to be a spoof of James Bond and all the other spy movies of the era. To do this correctly, you require characters who are as large as the ones being spoofed or larger. Take Austin Powers; he's the perfect parody of every spy ever written. And there are no individuals in this tale who come close to Autin Powers' shadow, let alone his wacky powerful persona. As for the humour, the writers should've considered hiring a comedian to help them out on the script. Because as far as the comedy goes, it's as lame as Trump in the White House - and he provided more funny moments like injecting bleach to kill covid.
Luckily Cort is better behind the camera. He knows how to light and compose a scene appropriately. I especially liked the black space and vivid colours used when filming the Angvia scenes. Cort even throws in some appealing and humourous camera angles and pans. It's a shame he uses them on jokes that are as old as the bible. Sadly, they fail to breathe fresh air into the skits. But the worst thing is the combat training and fight sequence towards the film's climax. Clad only in blue rope, pasties, and panties, the elite Angvia fighting squad should have looked better than they fought. However, these scenes required a fight choreographer to add a splash of authenticity or a slapstick comedian to make them looney tunes fun. But neither was applied, which leaves you relying on the beauty of the semi-clad girls to keep your attention. But they're not beauties, and they're not that good.
The superb cast is hindered by the weak characterisations and poor dialogue the writers gave them. But it doesn't stop everyone from giving their best effort. And I cannot fault any of the performers. Though, it felt as if Robin Hawdon was batting below average when placed against James Robertson Justice and Charles Hawtree.
As you can guess, I'm not going to recommend this film to everyone, even though I can be that nasty. But I will say to any promising directors out there, it's worth a look-see so you can note should your story and its characters be rubbish, your direction and cast might not lift it out of the morass of misfortune.
Miss? Could you please book me on the next interdimensional trip to Angvia? While I wait, I'll check out my IMDb lists - The Final Frontier, The Game Is Afoot, and Just For Laughs and refresh my memory to where I rated The Love Factor.
Take Care & Stay Well.
Story: 1.00 Direction: 1.00 Pace: 1.00 Acting: 1.00 Enjoyment: 0.25
TOTAL: 4.25 out of 10.00.
Calling The Love Factor a comedy is tenuous at best because there are few titters in this picture - either intentional or unintentional. It's a case of titter ye not. What's worse is that the film possesses a decent story idea, not too terrible direction, and a talented cast. But yet it fails immensely to entertain.
I particularly liked the notion of interdimensional humanoid beings coming to Earth and pilfering our female population to repopulate theirs. It's sound and offers many possibilities. Michael Cort and Alister McKenzie primarily offer up a delightful narrative. Sadly, the characterisations and comedic elements deflate the story of its power. The Love Factor is supposed to be a spoof of James Bond and all the other spy movies of the era. To do this correctly, you require characters who are as large as the ones being spoofed or larger. Take Austin Powers; he's the perfect parody of every spy ever written. And there are no individuals in this tale who come close to Autin Powers' shadow, let alone his wacky powerful persona. As for the humour, the writers should've considered hiring a comedian to help them out on the script. Because as far as the comedy goes, it's as lame as Trump in the White House - and he provided more funny moments like injecting bleach to kill covid.
Luckily Cort is better behind the camera. He knows how to light and compose a scene appropriately. I especially liked the black space and vivid colours used when filming the Angvia scenes. Cort even throws in some appealing and humourous camera angles and pans. It's a shame he uses them on jokes that are as old as the bible. Sadly, they fail to breathe fresh air into the skits. But the worst thing is the combat training and fight sequence towards the film's climax. Clad only in blue rope, pasties, and panties, the elite Angvia fighting squad should have looked better than they fought. However, these scenes required a fight choreographer to add a splash of authenticity or a slapstick comedian to make them looney tunes fun. But neither was applied, which leaves you relying on the beauty of the semi-clad girls to keep your attention. But they're not beauties, and they're not that good.
The superb cast is hindered by the weak characterisations and poor dialogue the writers gave them. But it doesn't stop everyone from giving their best effort. And I cannot fault any of the performers. Though, it felt as if Robin Hawdon was batting below average when placed against James Robertson Justice and Charles Hawtree.
As you can guess, I'm not going to recommend this film to everyone, even though I can be that nasty. But I will say to any promising directors out there, it's worth a look-see so you can note should your story and its characters be rubbish, your direction and cast might not lift it out of the morass of misfortune.
Miss? Could you please book me on the next interdimensional trip to Angvia? While I wait, I'll check out my IMDb lists - The Final Frontier, The Game Is Afoot, and Just For Laughs and refresh my memory to where I rated The Love Factor.
Take Care & Stay Well.