This movie has a "piecemeal vanity project" feel, although I give the director credit for not acting in the movie as well as doing everything else. That's just about the only good decision he made, alas.
"Dangerous Men" isn't as technically inept as some of the lesser "direct to video/DVD/cable" efforts out there. In fact I think that if you put "Rad" in charge of a project by a studio like "Full Moon" or "The Asylum", with an actual budget and support system, the results would be as good as anything those worthies pump out. But as it is, Rad really, really, really needed to collaborate with a 2nd or third party to help him realize what scenes and plot threads and performances simply did not work. If he'd dropped half of the annoying crap that went on too long in this movie, he'd have a brisk little 30-40 minute feature for an anthology film or TV series. Nobody would want to watch it, but it would at least make sense and be over before it exhausted the audience's patience.
Some scenes remind me of setups for soft-core porn, only with terrible makeup and lighting that rob them of any cheesecake value. Some scenes belong in a 70s biker film, but with worse characters and dialog. (BTW, Rad has absolutely no ear for dialog. The non-sequiturs come so thick and fast it's hard to tell sometimes when one is done and the next one is being launched.) There are fight scenes that make "The Guy From Harlem" look like "Enter The Dragon", with a kind of weird, misplaced emphasis on strangling and choking people.
I should also mention that the plot starts about being about one thing (a young woman seeking revenge on all rapists - or eventually men in general, I think)...and loses interest in that and becomes about bringing a drug dealer to justice somehow, which happens through a series of events that make no sense.
And then the movie just kind of....stops. Like a Road Runner cartoon, only without any humor or energy.
I feel a little bad poking so much fun at this inept piece of would-be cinema. It wants to be a movie, it tries to be a movie, it probably took over the director's life for months at a time as he kept trying to turn it into an actual movie...but this isn't even a "so bad it's good" movie because the feeling behind it is so slapdash and cynical.
You can miss this one. Or you can watch it drunk, or with friends while drunk, or with film fans who enjoying demolishing inept films.
"Dangerous Men" isn't as technically inept as some of the lesser "direct to video/DVD/cable" efforts out there. In fact I think that if you put "Rad" in charge of a project by a studio like "Full Moon" or "The Asylum", with an actual budget and support system, the results would be as good as anything those worthies pump out. But as it is, Rad really, really, really needed to collaborate with a 2nd or third party to help him realize what scenes and plot threads and performances simply did not work. If he'd dropped half of the annoying crap that went on too long in this movie, he'd have a brisk little 30-40 minute feature for an anthology film or TV series. Nobody would want to watch it, but it would at least make sense and be over before it exhausted the audience's patience.
Some scenes remind me of setups for soft-core porn, only with terrible makeup and lighting that rob them of any cheesecake value. Some scenes belong in a 70s biker film, but with worse characters and dialog. (BTW, Rad has absolutely no ear for dialog. The non-sequiturs come so thick and fast it's hard to tell sometimes when one is done and the next one is being launched.) There are fight scenes that make "The Guy From Harlem" look like "Enter The Dragon", with a kind of weird, misplaced emphasis on strangling and choking people.
I should also mention that the plot starts about being about one thing (a young woman seeking revenge on all rapists - or eventually men in general, I think)...and loses interest in that and becomes about bringing a drug dealer to justice somehow, which happens through a series of events that make no sense.
And then the movie just kind of....stops. Like a Road Runner cartoon, only without any humor or energy.
I feel a little bad poking so much fun at this inept piece of would-be cinema. It wants to be a movie, it tries to be a movie, it probably took over the director's life for months at a time as he kept trying to turn it into an actual movie...but this isn't even a "so bad it's good" movie because the feeling behind it is so slapdash and cynical.
You can miss this one. Or you can watch it drunk, or with friends while drunk, or with film fans who enjoying demolishing inept films.