Brace yourself for badness when you sit down to watch THE OBSESSED ONE. While the original tile may be OPERATION MAONAIMA, while watching the US released OBSESSED ONE you will not learn what that title refers to. Plot is simple, a man escapes from jail to track down the 3 men who did him and his bride wrong.
Along the way you will see some of the most unconvincing fighting choreography ever committed to film, and highly amusing car chases where the camera was under cranked resulting in the finished product looking like the keystone cops. The music is 70's funky & repetitive and the English dubbing is right up there with the worst you've heard. The actors ( I use that term loosely ) do appear to be speaking English though, so it's possible the dialog follows the original script. There is plenty of nudity and simulated sex, and some cheesy gore thrown in for fun, but I still fought off boredom after the 30 min mark of this 75 minute exploiter. A sequence with a slick ladies man decked out in outrageous pimp ware provides some laughs, but much of this is merely serviceable, and the technical aspects are dire throughout.
It looks like it was filmed on 16mm and blown up to 35mm, the quality of the source used for the Blu Ray I watched from Code Red was simply not worthy of the medium and should have been released on DVD. Colors are decent but it's soft, grainy and flat out ugly most of the time.
Along the way you will see some of the most unconvincing fighting choreography ever committed to film, and highly amusing car chases where the camera was under cranked resulting in the finished product looking like the keystone cops. The music is 70's funky & repetitive and the English dubbing is right up there with the worst you've heard. The actors ( I use that term loosely ) do appear to be speaking English though, so it's possible the dialog follows the original script. There is plenty of nudity and simulated sex, and some cheesy gore thrown in for fun, but I still fought off boredom after the 30 min mark of this 75 minute exploiter. A sequence with a slick ladies man decked out in outrageous pimp ware provides some laughs, but much of this is merely serviceable, and the technical aspects are dire throughout.
It looks like it was filmed on 16mm and blown up to 35mm, the quality of the source used for the Blu Ray I watched from Code Red was simply not worthy of the medium and should have been released on DVD. Colors are decent but it's soft, grainy and flat out ugly most of the time.