sloulos Reviews

Jaws: The Revenge (1987)

At least its better than Jaws 3 and a masterpiece compared with Shark In Venice!

[6/10 · 31 July 2011]

OK OK...Sharks don't take things personally. Sharks don't roar etc. BUT Sharks don't like eating humans so in the first hand Peter Benchley's best selling novel is not based on accurate facts. What i am trying to say? Movies are fiction hello? So ANYTHING can happen. I admit that the shark's personal quest for revenge is stupid even for a fictional movie universe, but at least makes the movie work because Jaws 3 was a total mess, and in my opinion is even worse than Jaws 4.

Now lets think about it. After the first movie (a true cinema masterpiece) everyone got the "jawsmania" and wanted to go to the theaters and watch the shark eating his victims. So the shark became the driving force behind the whole franchise (even they never planned to make it one). Bottom line we all watched the sequels for the shark and the shark delivers big time in this one. This movie its mindless fun and full of carnage.

In conclusion. The producers wanted the Brodys in the film, (this family with sharks is like John Mclane with terrorists), they had the shark and they needed to find a way to make the Brodys get in a situation against a shark again. Someone said to make it personal, and the others agreed! So what? At least is not Shark In Venice!. Sure the movie could been better but it's entertaining and a fun movie to watch with a couple of beers.

Evil in the Time of Heroes (2009)

One of the most annoying z-flicks around, Kako 2 killed the good vibe of first movie

[1/10 · 28 July 2011]

Ι have seen tons of Zombie flicks, big budget, low budget, no budget at all etc.

"To Kako 2" is by far one of the most annoying movies of the genre. I understand that the second movie moved fast forward to a straight up comedy (the first one had balance and it was really really entertaining) but instead of being funny, its just plain annoying. As for the plot is a total mess. The whole go to past and come back to the present is done in a way to get to your nerves. Bottom line the whole script is like a cut and paste of various ideas thrown around and not single one of them is presented like it should. Too bad that the people responsible for the good first movie (Kako) managed to killed their own creation with the second one. The only good thing in this movie is only the gore factor. But gore cant save a z-film if the story who keeps it interesting belongs to the bottom of the toilet.

Too bad that one of the most annoying z-movies ever made comes from Greece.

I wonder how the Greek Cinema Centre (belongs to the state) and Audiovisual (major distributor company in Greece) decided to finance this total mess.