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10 - Movie is the best possible version of itself
9 - A great movie with enough flaws that I can't justify a 10
8 - One of the better movies of the whole year
7 - Would recommend this movie to anyone who thinks the plot sounds remotely interesting
6 - Worth watching but not worth recommending to anyone who wasn't already interested
5 - A mediocre movie with some good parts but on the whole is just meh
4 - A bad movie that is half meh and half literal trash, maybe still worth watching to many
3 - Train wreck that might have some good special effects or something
2 - The worst rating I am likely to give
1 - It's not even working for me on an ironic level
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The Sixth Man (1997)
Superstition
As a child I loved the movie The 6th Man. I probably hold the world record for the most viewings of this movie so for that reason I think I should write a review of it. As I said I loved this movie as a kid but now that I'm older I realize the many flaws it has, though I still understand what I liked so much about it when I was younger.
The 6th Man is a rare combination of comedy and drama. It doesn't transition between the two very well and I think that accounts for its less than stellar average rating. For the first 30 minutes or so The 6th Man is a great drama with some of the best basketball action you'll ever see. Antoine is a likable character and dies tragically. Kenny deals with his brother's death. A very heartbreaking story. It could have been a great drama if it had stuck to that. Then it violently switches to comedy, back to drama, and back to comedy so many times I am sure that is what turns off a lot of people. It doesn't turn me off, but it's one of the clear weaknesses.
After the movie switches to a comedy you are given a lot of hit and miss jokes, mostly involving invisible Antoine doing poltergeist stunts and freaking people out. Some of the jokes are hilarious. Personally I love the scene where Antoine goes into the painting and kicks the guy fishing into the pond. Its undoing in the comedic aspect of this movie is that it goes back to the poltergeist stuff too often. It becomes repetitive and it takes away from the serious drama that we saw for the first 30 minutes.
The basketball action in The 6th Man is among the best you will ever see. A lot of the actors in this movie were basketball players and went on to never act again. It shows both in the quality of their acting and the quality of the basketball. Travis Ford (Danny O'Grady) and Jack Karuletwa (Luther LaSalle) both put on lousy acting performances but were good on the court. Lorenzo Orr (Malik Major) also never acted again, but he seemed like he had potential as a comedic actor.
The 6th Man is a very worth watching drama/comedy. The main undoing of the movie is that it seemed like it couldn't decide which one it wanted to be. As a fan of basketball, a fan of dramas, and a fan of comedies I can understand why I still enjoy watching this. It brings something to the table in all three areas.
Un balazo para Quintana (2008)
A bullet for my head would be better
I found this movie on my local library's "New Videos" section online. I've tried this before and it's been hit and miss. This was a miss.
The plot is essentially a woman in way too much makeup has a killer after her name "Angel Eyes Quintana." This woman, named Woman God, which I'll explain to you why that name is so ironic in a moment, has hired a "the best bounty hunters in the country" to defend her against Angel Eyes Quintana.
The filming is just awful. The cinematographer should be ashamed. The camera angles are nearly all bad. They switch way too often and with no apparent transitions, but I suppose that falls under the job description of the editor. The editor, in addition to the cinematographer, should be fired. I've never watched the show 24, but they are famous for a type of split screen editing. This movie tries to do the same thing and it renders it nearly unwatchable. Sometimes the screen is split in half horizontally, then they switch to full screen, then wide screen, then 4 screens, then wide screen but cut vertically into 3 sections. Sometimes it's not split at all, but just has been shrunk to the size of 1/9th the screen. The editing probably the worst part about this movie.
The bounty hunters have the most over the top costumes imaginable. One of them has an eye patch that looks like it's from a child's pirate Halloween costume. Another is supposed to be Russian I think, so he wears a beaver fur hat. He's supposed to be in Mexico! Why on earth would you wear a beaver fur hat? It's pretty apparent that these costumes were designed so that you could tell which character was who in long shots. Woman God, the lady who has Angel Eyes after her, I thought for the first 20 minutes was a man in drag. The costume looks like a man in drag, and the deep voice didn't help her cause.
The whole movie takes place in a bunch of abandoned buildings that echo very loudly. It's never really explained why they are in this place. These bounty hunters, in their over the top costumes, patrol around with pistols drawn. Another thing I never really got about this movie, is if they are really "the best bounty hunters in the country" why do they only seem to use pistols? I'm sure most bounty hunters would have a pistol, but there are a lot of ways to kill someone. Maybe they should have had one bounty hunter use an assault rifle, another who uses clever booby traps, another that likes pistols, maybe one who likes dynamite? I don't know, but everyone using pistols didn't really seem to make sense.
The only part of this movie that isn't awful is the acting, but it's hard to tell. The actors have nothing to work with. There are bad costumes, poor cinematography, and horrendous editing for them to overcome. I would have given this movie a 1/10, but I gave it a 2/10 just because I felt sorry for the actors.
Here are a few screen shots: http://img44.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=ss4ozh.jpg