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Summary: Christopher Lambert Is Back.... Run away.
Review: I have not read James Marcus' book, "Amazonia," but in a recent NPR interview, he insisted that during his Amazon tenure he was never pressured to write positive reviews of things he found crappy. However, Amazon's editorial review above makes me doubt such a claim. If the guy had said this movie is so bad that it's good, I could accept that. But to suggest that "Mean Guns" has redeeming qualities that anyone involved with it actually intended it to have? You've got to be kidding.
Also, do not believe the overall user rating for this movie or the low ratio of helpful to unhelpful votes that my review will inevitably get (assuming anyone ever actually reads it). Most people who have rated it are probably Christopher Lambert fans, so they obviously have no taste. For anyone who realizes Lambert has less acting talent than a dead dog, let me inform you that "Mean Guns" is actually terrible. I will admit that I found it to be enjoyably bad -- the incompetence of everyone involved gave me a few pretty good laughs. But enjoyably bad is still bad. I will say this -- at least it was not nearly as horrible as the previous Pyun-Lambert project, "Adrenalin: Fear the Rush" -- a movie as boring as it was atrocious. But that ain't saying much.
The absurd premise of this movie is that a bunch of members of Ice-T's crime syndicate have betrayed him. So he rounds them all up into a prison (a prison that will be put into use housing actual inmates the following day, mind you) and distributes all sorts of weapons among them: bats, guns, knives, you name it. The members of the syndicate are supposed to kill each other off and the last three members alive will split $10 million.
A friend of mine once jokingly suggested that the plot to this movie was devised after Pyun found out that many of his actors could not stay on long enough to finish the movie (hence the pointless killing of all the characters as the movie progresses). Frankly, if my friend's suggestion turned out to be true, it would not surprise me in the least, because this movie makes no sense at all. Why nobody kills Ice-T, I don't know. Why Christopher Lambert leaves a kid in his parked car outside the prison while all this goes on, I don't know (or just can't remember). Why there are vampires in this movie, I don't know.
All I do know is that it is bad.
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Summary: Incredibly compelling
Review: I'd never heard of this movie until a friend described it, and we later watched it. Incredible! The plot is simple, but the sub-plots most definitely are not. There is a lot of violence in this movie, make no mistake about it, but blissfully little blood and other unnecessary gore. Instead, I found it oddly compelling and philosophical, with a great performance by Ice-T. I would highly recommend it to anyone who is a fan of high action movies.
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Summary: At least Mario Van Peebles isn't in it.
Review: I'll try not to spoil the ending for anyone who is dying of suspense, but the worst character in the film is the only one that lives. I've seen quite possibly ever late night HBO action movie, and to say this one is the worst is not an assertion I write easily. It truly is. The idea of "100 assassins, 1000 guns, $10,000,000" is interesting enough, and some of the action isn't bad, but it's so frustratingly worthless that no one, no matter how late they're up, should be inflicted with this.
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: I'm amazed.After viewing the abomination that was "Adrenalin:Fear The Rush",I didn't think that Mr.Albert Pyun would make a decent movie.But finallly,he made a REAL movie! He realized what was wrong with the movies he had made earlier, took their problems and improved them by a zillion! The acting is superb.Ice-T is absolutely devilish at the role of Vincent Moon and Christopher Lambert's performance as Lou is incredible.The story is terrific.100 assassins battle in a vacant building in order to win $10,000,000.They go through hell trying to win and in the end the rusult is a HUGE death toll. The action scenes are VERY intense and realistic. You'll be biting your nails the whole time.The plot has loads of clever and imaginative twists. The photography was brilliant.It gave the film a very realistic and "dramatic" feel and the suspense was even tighter.Overall,Mean Guns is a brilliant film that deserves much more credit than it's received.Pyun finaly made a decent flick.Excellent acting,intense action sequences, brilliant plot and story and suspense galore made this one hell of a movie.This is Pyun's only good movie....The only thing unsatisfactory about MG is the ending,and that's too bad because the rest of the movie is a masterpiece.Rated R for intense and very realistic action violence and profanity galore.
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: I'm amazed.After viewing the abomination that was "Adrenalin:Fear The Rush",I didn't think that Mr.Albert Pyun would make a decent movie.But finallly,he made a REAL movie! He realized what was wrong with the movies he had made earlier, took their problems and improved them by a zillion! The acting is superb.Ice-T is absolutely devilish at the role of Vincent Moon and Christopher Lambert's performance as Lou is incredible.The story is terrific.100 assassins battle in a vacant building in order to win $10,000,000.They go through hell trying to win and in the end the rusult is a HUGE death toll. The action scenes are VERY intense and realistic. You'll be biting your nails the whole time.The plot has loads of clever and imaginative twists. The photography was brilliant.It gave the film a very realistic and "dramatic" feel and the suspense was even tighter.Overall,Mean Guns is a brilliant film that deserves much more credit than it's received.Pyun finaly made a decent flick.Excellent acting,intense action sequences, brilliant plot and story and suspense galore made this one hell of a movie.This is Pyun's only good movie....The only thing unsatisfactory about MG is the ending,and that's too bad because the rest of the movie is a masterpiece. Rated R for intense and very realistic action violence and profanity galore.
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Summary: In a Nutshell: Mambo Murder
Review: I've now seen the film Mean Guns twice and I have even purchased the DVD (albeit off of a bargain rack). This isn't a great film, it isn't even really a good film, but it can be entertaining if you like violence and mambo.
The story behind the movie is weak at best and the cast (consisting mostly of Ice-T and Christopher Lambert) really doesn't do much to improve the film. There are some interesting action moments, all to the beat of Mambo music.
If you can find it for a cheap price I'd suggest it, but I wouldn't pay any more than a couple of bucks for this film. Of course if you're a diehard Christopher Lambert fan or if you really love Mambo and Violence, this might be something you want to invest in.
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Summary: Quick, dirty, and oddly contemplative.
Review: MEAN GUNS stars Christopher Lambert and Pyun regular Michael Halsey, and has only the merest shred of plot to propel the story: a powerful crime syndicate wants revenge on those who betrayed them, so it's set up a free-for-all in an empty prison where the condemned must fight to eliminate one another in six hours, or less. The three left standing get to walk away with some big money in their pockets. Like most Pyun films, Mean Guns doesn't stand up to intense logical scrutiny, but that's not the point. The movie ends up being oddly contemplative, as the script draws out a handful of troubled characters thrust into a grotesque situation. While the emphasis is clearly on the action -- and there's plenty of it, well-shot as usual -- there are surprising moments of quiet where the audience is allowed to get close to these "bad guys" and come to at least part of an understanding of what their lives are like, what they think and feel. Lambert and Halsey are particularly good here, as a killer who's come unhinged because of a familial tragedy and another who's lost all hope of ever walking away clean, respectively. Good stuff, marred only by a very poor full-screen presentation.
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Summary: mambo, mambo
Review: really great story and I liked the way it played out, though theres some stupid bits and characters that really are just dumb, like Deborah Van Valkenburgh's role, the chick who lives at the end, she was stupid. Lambert is so insane in this one and his fight and gunplay scenes rock ass. Ice-T contributes some knife and gun skills as well. people get smashed, bashesd, gunned down, hung, stabbed, strangled, hit by bats, hit by frying pans and other cool ways to die. vicious fight scenes
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Summary: entertaining action movie SPOILERS
Review: the main reason why i waited up until 2 in the morning cause i am a fan of chris lambert i saw it id say it was excellent of the action and the acting done by chris lambert and ice t.Great action AND I WAS DISSAPIONTED when christopher lambert was told by marcus that he killed his daughter when he didnt and so they killed each other and that ugly old woman who can t even act probably old enough to look like shes 50 mabye she is.So it was very entaining worth a watch.
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Summary: Despite the simple plot, a great movie
Review: This movie is a straight-to-video insane shoot'em up flick starring Christopher Lambert(in his best performance ever as the psychotic Lou) and Ice-T(Mr. Platinum Teeth). The plot is basically 100 criminals who have betrayed the crime organization known as the Syndicate are put in a prison and told that the 3 standing after 6 hrs will get 10 million dollars. Then, the criminals are thrown guns and baseball bats to dispatch each other.....plot heavy, eh? What makes this movie work well are the wonderful action sequences, a great performance from Christopher Lambert as Lou, a psychotic killing machine with the best lines in the flick, and the actors who played Marcus and D both did well in their roles. Also, the movie's "soundtrack" is quite good....you'll see why if you watch the flick. The only weaknesses of this flick are really the annoying innocent lady, who, while she adds the human element of the flick, is very annoying throughout the movie. Also, the well-endowed femme fatale of the flick, nick-named Barbie, is somewhat annoying at points in the movie. Despite these flaws, this film is a great action movie even though it went straight-to-video.
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