The Filth

The Filth

                If you thought cops in your country was bad, check this out. This is a British movie about a crooked cop who competing with other cops for his promotion, while a murder investigation taking place.  He goes on a path sabotaging his friends competing for a Job and general being a dirty rotten bastards. Well while trying to catch some killers. He crooked at a level that makes Vick Mackey look he works in Mayberry. He really surprise they made a film that follows someone that that much a piece of shit. This is not a complaint. He is an interesting piece of shit that makes you go “You know what it smells but got a unique smell to it “This cop is a druggy, a Jerk, a sociopath, and sex maniac. The Humor very dark but it gives an out there feel where you enjoy the ride. It also makes the main character funny enough where you go with him…somewhat and drops hints of sympathy. You just want to see what happens to him. That said he does do some horrible things where you loses him. He is not all fun and games. He is a scary mother F’er at times. So he probably goes to lose you at some point in the movie. But that when they heap stuff on him and you see WHY he this way that makes you want to follow him to figure it out. You start to pity him.  Also the people he going after is worst. Although he does it half ass like as possible. There is a change and tone that little unbalance. It gets REAL DARK and serious as the movie goes on. So it kind of a sudden Jarring switch. Thought it manage to still be off the wall during that seriousness.  Also some of the people he tricking come of a little too dumb or push over’s. He so obviously a lunatic...you surprise how he able to pull one over on them. You wonder how this dude remains on the Job in the first place. All through the movie it’s still a good ride. It goes by fast and pace well.  It’s a unique, interesting, fun, wild, drug fuel ride B+

Breaking the Girls

When it comes to erotic thrillers, Lesbian loves and murder plots go together like peanut butter and Jelly. It just goes perfect together.  This is one such tell that takes a strangest on a train plot. Where two people joking about wouldn’t it be a great idea, if each one of them kills someone the other head. This way each one of them has an Alibi. But OH No...Turns out one of them wasn’t joking. One of them went through it and now expects the other person to return the favor. But here it has a down on her luck college girl. The College girl pines for an X boyfriend who dating a stone cold bitch. Who not only, gets her fired, evicted, and almost kicked out of school?  Ouch that a holy trinity of bitchiness. The college girl while down on her luck, meets a wild party girl and they hit it off and have a lesbian love affair. 

The college girl view this as a onetime thing...but party girls goes all single white female and wants more. It is the college girl who brings up the murder idea and the first to Jump. There twist and turns along the way. Some of which pretty fun if you let you mind go. Some of scenes are pretty hot and the party girls play a good crazy girl. The girls are pretty hot. It’s the main character that a bit of problem...since she seems lifeless and monotone a lot of time. She has one setting...and that setting seem to be a light cruise control. No matter how bad or crazy things get...she never hits the emotional pedal in her acting. She reacts to seeing a murder the same way you would react to finding a ticket on your cars. Also the plan she somewhat convoluted and require them to have the worst cops sense the cops on Dexter. A small amount of investigation would have totally destroyed the plan. And the plan requires for too many things going right. Still a decent watch for the ladies but their much better movies of it type. C+

Battle Ground

Battle Ground

                Battle Ground is an ultra low budge shoot em up about bank robbers vs. a crazy nam vet. That hook alone was enough to make me (a love a Z grade Action movies) want to see that but the results are realty mixed. Think of it as Rambo vs. the guys from heat with a slasher movie style and you have a good idea of the movie.  The movie starts out with them just finishing a bank robbery with one of them injured. They are on the run cause one of them shot a cop now there normal means of escape will be delayed and cost more money. The idea of loose cannon on a team always bugs me. Why would you hire people on your team that clearly that insane? I mean no professional bank robbery team really wants some guy going all “Leroy Jenkins” by shooting up the place. It just counter productive. But that just my own pet peeve. The start of it gets you interested cause it takes you right into it. So they have to find a place to hide. They find an empty house in the woods thinking nobody there as they bicker on how the bank robber went all fubar. Low and behold this happens to be a house of crazy Vietnam vet who proceeds to hunt them down and killed them. An apparently does this to anyone who gets near his area. He sets up traps like a derange home alone kids and takes their money. Which cause the criminals to stay and hunt him down? There some nice kills and the set up of the battle ground are pretty sweet with a lot of secret passageways and good places for shoot outs. Problem is it no one to really root for cause both sides are dirt bags with very little remorse. So you don’t really root for anyone. You can have evil protagonist but you got to do something to make the audience follow them...make them exciting somehow. Something that makes each side somewhat rootable. Smoke Aces did this cause people had different hitmen they liked. Not so much here. Also you go into the clique that no one able to aim well in this...sense they can’t hit each other until the end. I mean this guy pretty old given when nam was…let no one seem to be able to get a shot off old man river over there. And it not like he a particular fit old mans…he has some city years on him. Still pretty fun. Some of the keys pretty imaginative and you can enjoy seeing the cat and mouse game. C+

Agression Scale

Aggression Scale

To understand the main character of this movie, picture the kid from Home alone if he was a complete sociopath...so basically picture the kid from Home Alone. This a dark take. Criminals break into someone house who stole money from them. It up to the two kids to escape as the bad guys tries to take them out. Little do they know the boy is lunatic with a history of violence and love to hurt people? It’s a pretty good twist. The kid is really creepy and when the criminals found out what they dealing with they have a nice “Oh $%it face” and some of the take downs pretty brutal. The problem is the brother and sister doesn’t have a great amount of chemistry together. I know there step ceilings but they don’t play off each other that well. The boy doesn’t talk...so it ups to the sister to carry most of the dialogue and exposition...and she not a good enough actor to carry that much weight. She mostly whines and kind of useless. The boy pretty good at his expressions but it a bit one note, Silent Bob this kid is not. But he plays a good lunatic. Although you get to the point where you say...dont these criminals have guns that can aim. Don’t the kids know where cops are or neighbors are or have Cell phones. Why they heck are they Rambo’ing it against these guys. Also the parents hiding the money kind of makes them the worst parents ever. All in all a nice fun flick to play if you have nothing to do C+