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Summary: What can I say?
Review: It was like being in some fifteen year old kids sci-fi daydream.
These kids get super powers, they take over their school, one of them goes evil and tries to kill the other three.
The clothes were great, the hair very Terminator2 meets Roswell.
The sex scene if you could call it that was short lived and didn't show anything and they all seemed to get REAL close real fast. It looked like off screen Pheobe and Reese were getting a lil action...from they body language.
This is an official B movie...all it needs is about 3 or 5 years, and it'll be a cult classic...Donnie Darko on five dollar a day shooting.
It's the cheesest thing on four wheels...but you can't stop thinking about it the next day.
So...I'd buy it if I were you. Be ahead of the curve for once huh?
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Summary: "Surge" Into the New Millenium of B-Movies
Review: Alright, just about everyone who's reviewed this movie has described the characters involved in the production and the special effects, but nobody has actually shed light on what the movie is about. Therefore, I'll do the honors of bestowing that information to you. Reese, the main character, has just moved to a new town with his father and is trying to adjust to life in a school that seems bent on giving him hell in whatever way they possibly can. After being bullied by some jocks on the corner of street one day, a few kids ride by and offer him a lift. Afterwards, they venture to a secluded forest where they find a mystic lodestone with the ability to give powers to those who are able to levitate over it. Reese and the others do so, and after gaining their unique powers they decide to get the school back for all the wrong it's done to them. However Ashley (who has the ability to control your mind) abuses her powers and in turn decides to go muy loco on the world with her gang of "zombies" who she's gained control of. Reese and the others must now find a way to stop Ashley from her dastardly plans for taking over the world. Dang, and she would've gotten away with it too if it weren't for those meddling kids... I suppose the acting in this movie was average for a B movie. Though uninspiring and highly fictitious, the special effects do give this movie some credibility which is what helped give this trash its 2-Star rating. All in all this movie is a little long-witted and the ending can pretty much be predicted way before its conclusion. For those who're in love with horrid low-budget films I'd recommend this, but be warned: it is extremely boring all throughout the movie, and nearly every aspect of the film is dulled by its dry, unprovocative plot.
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Summary: "Surge" Into the New Millenium of B-Movies
Review: Alright, just about everyone who's reviewed this movie has described the characters involved in the production and the special effects, but nobody has actually shed light on what the movie is about. Therefore, I'll do the honors of bestowing that information to you. Reese, the main character, has just moved to a new town with his father and is trying to adjust to life in a school that seems bent on giving him hell in whatever way they possibly can. After being bullied by some jocks on the corner of street one day, a few kids ride by and offer him a lift. Afterwards, they venture to a secluded forest where they find a mystic lodestone with the ability to give powers to those who are able to levitate over it. Reese and the others do so, and after gaining their unique powers they decide to get the school back for all the wrong it's done to them. However Ashley (who has the ability to control your mind) abuses her powers and in turn decides to go muy loco on the world with her gang of "zombies" who she's gained control of. Reese and the others must now find a way to stop Ashley from her dastardly plans for taking over the world. Dang, and she would've gotten away with it too if it weren't for those meddling kids... I suppose the acting in this movie was average for a B movie. Though uninspiring and highly fictitious, the special effects do give this movie some credibility which is what helped give this trash its 2-Star rating. All in all this movie is a little long-witted and the ending can pretty much be predicted way before its conclusion. For those who're in love with horrid low-budget films I'd recommend this, but be warned: it is extremely boring all throughout the movie, and nearly every aspect of the film is dulled by its dry, unprovocative plot.
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Summary: Surge Blows You Away
Review: I just watched The Surge today and I was blown away by it. The special effects were fantastic. The music was extraordinary. The cast worked beautifully together and they were believable. Mat Scollon was way hot as the goth Reese. Psychic powers are all the rage and these were superb. To say the very least The Surge will soon belong in my personal collection. It was the best movie I've seen in a long time.
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Summary: Love it
Review: i really liked this movie. not just because i love sci fi movies but because it was a good plot and what better to be the bad guy in the movie then the one who is kind of the person who sets every thing ups sister. good character acting, just a good movie all around!
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Summary: Awesomely Bad
Review: I watched this movie about five times. It just kept getting more hilarious. Let's go through its high points shall we?
I'm not even going to go into the plot, the acting, or the screenplay because it still hurts to think about. The character developement was pure genius, though! Throughout the movie, the main character, Reese, gets better and better at jumping into his friend's convertible. Every female character, including the math teacher, gets sluttier and sluttier. Reese's hair also gets greasier and greasier. Brilliant!
Now some funny things start to happen in this movie. Did the crew want to play a joke on us, or were they just smoking something? Right after the kids get their powers...from a glowing rock of some sort...we start to see flashlights. It's only subtle at first, but later it looks like there's kids behind the camera just going CRAZY with flashlights. It starts to hurt your head a bit. But THEN the camera starts swaying back and forth as if it were hung from the ceiling of a rocky cruise ship. You start feeling nauseous...but then, to keep you hooked on the movie, there is AN ENORMOUS, RANDOM CROTCH SHOT with a "whoooooo weeeeeee" sound effect behind it. Speaking of sound, there is ONE SONG that plays throughout the whole movie, like some Marilyn Manson song but they couldn't afford Marilyn Manson so they made up their own song and just played it over and over and over...
Overall, I loved this movie. Three very mutated thumbs up.
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Summary: Oh Lord!
Review: It is a horrible, horrible movie. I only got it because David Anders is in it, and it was not worth it at all. I do admit I was mesmerized by it; it was like a bad car accident.
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Summary: do they make C movies?
Review: Made for teenagers, I wondered at times if it was made by teenagers too. I did enjoy it though (for some reason I can't fully explain). The actors were solid. Story? Eh, I've seen better in worse movies. High School girls perhaps? yeah, they're cute too, but I think there's a darkness to it that people liked. If it were on cable, and your a male between 12 and 25, you'd probably leave it on. All in all, it doesn't have alot of substance but was entertaining. Glad I rented.
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Summary: The truth
Review: Ok everybody is saying how well written and acted and the plot and bla bla bla is... well here's the truth.. the acting was good-some of the characters weren't totally beliveable when they screamed for help or what ever, next, the music wasn't that great because i don't even remember the music, I mean it didn't even stand out that much for me to remeber, next, the camera angles made me sick, the kept bobbing it back and forth, back and forth, it was like I was getting sea sick in my own living room, but I do give them credit for good plot and good effects for a low budget film, I watched this on HBO or something, not on dvd I would only own this movie if it was for sell for less than $6.00. And I enjoyed it, I just wouldn't want to own it. So i think you should just rent before you buy,
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Summary: awesome movie!
Review: ok, just to voice a question I have, did all the other reviewers watch the same movie? 'Cause, like, one of them talked about the kids "holding the stone", which never, uh, happened. Likewise, I never heard anything about the stone being "from the gods" or anything. Okay, first of all, I thought this was a great movie overall. For pretty similar reasons to those that have been stated before, namely the plot and also just the sheer coolness factor (who wouldn't want to read their teacher's mind when they get called on to get the answer?). Anyway, I just have some things to say in defense of this movie.
For one, yes, the special effects were nowhere near the level of those in something like The Matrix or Lord of the Rings, but for one, they still got the job done (the glowing eyes still looked cool IMO even if it was obviously low-tech), and two, this movie had nowhere near the budget that those other two had.
The other thing I heard complaints about was the realism. They're sitting on a huge magnet, and they find this stone that produces strong electrical impulses (at a low amperage, obviously, or they would have been dead). Hey, we know the brain uses electrical signals, so why would electrical activity affect the brain? Ok, I know it's unrealistic that something like that would give you psychic powers, but come on, Star Trek breaks laws of physics all the time, and the geeks who watch that show, who ought to know said laws, don't complain. You want your movies to be perfectly explainable scientifically, how do you explain Harry Potter? How does mumbling Latin and waving a stick around cause something to fly? Face it, movies are by their nature unrealistic, or they would be documentaries.
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