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Summary: Don't be fooled by the cheap direct to video marketing
Review: This movie rocks. It seems it is being marketed as some direct to video cheapie. But wait... Violence , sex, drugs, car accidents, human sacrifice, cannibalism, and James Gandolfini. The script is great. The direction is sharp, superhip and intelligent. Alex de la Iglesia has been called the director of generation in Spain. His other two flims (Accion Mutante and The Day of the Beast) have been hits all over the world except in the U.S. He has won many awards at film festivals worldwide. The acting in the film is top notch. Pacing is relentless and some of the action sequences are breathtaking. So once again don't be fooled by bad american marketing. This film gives any Tarantino or Rodriguez flick a run for its money. The Europeans know how to make action and horror. Don't forget to check out The Day of the Beast, de la Iglesia is definitely a filmmaker on his way up.
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Summary: Entertaining, but certainly not for the kids!!
Review: this movie-containing explicit sex scenes, and sick violence-is at times entertaining as well as quite hollow at some point. however this may be forgiven, due to the outstanding performances by Javier Bardem, who plays the main character Romeo Dolorosa, a satanworshipping, killing psychopath, and Rosie Perez, who is in the movie(as i would take it) his second half Perdita Durango, also pretty sickminded. Together they take it to the road to finally pick up a young couple. Their purpose is it, to sacrifice them to this weird gods or whatever Romeo believes in. But the ceremony is interrupted. Bad luck for Romeo and Perdita. With the couple in the back they start their way to Las Vegas, where Romeo has got some deals. But as those kind of roadmovies are, everything goes wrong. That's quite it with the story!!! however there are these few sequences in this movie that are just of sheer brilliance like these weird flashbacks, shortly-cut scenes that are being seen as Romeo or Perdita are telling stories of their past or so. Pretty sick though is the rough violence, shown in the movie!! But in this film it's simply a neccessity!! well, that's it so far!!! If you like Tarantino or Lynch, or you are even into splatter, go and watch it; if you've got the nerves, it's great fun!!
bye, bye martin
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Summary: A Waste of a Picture
Review: This picture is a complete waste, considering it had nothing to offer, even the perversion in the film becomes trite and tiring, by the end, I had hoped that all the characters would wind up dead because they are uninteresting. The director thinks that he is being morally ambiguous by presenting Bardem as a villain who rapes and plunders all form of human decency but actually he is being silly. The film never knows if it is being a slasher film or a comedy, but by the end, who really cares as long as this disaster is over?....
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Summary: Not a film for the weak of heart (or stomach)
Review: Upping the bizarro quotient from David Lynch's Wild at Heart, comes Alex De La Iglesia's Dance with the Devil (aka Perdita Durango -- i like that title much better), a wild ride of a film that features a pre-Before Night Falls Javier Bardem gleefully chewing up the scenery as Romeo, a witch doctor/mercenary enlisted to hijack a truckload of foetuses and bring it to Las Vegas. Casting against type is Rosie Perez as the title character, Perdita, who is as wild and crazy as Romeo. Along the way they kidnap a couple of white bread kids and stay ahead of the law, represented by a pre-Sopranos James Gandolfini in a hilarious turn as really unlucky lawman who keeps getting run over by speeding vehicles, and Repo Man director, Alex Cox as his dimwitted partner.This is funny, violent, warped cult film oddity that features an awesome cast (also including Screamin' Jay Hawkins) and an equally impressive soundtrack (with not one but two rockin' tunes by Southern Culture on the Skids). Think of this as Natural Born Killers without all the political stuff or Wild at Heart on bad acid. Certainly not a film for everyone but if you like your action movies fast 'n' furious with a good dose of weirdness on top, then check this bad boy out.
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Summary: Nervously Bizarre
Review: Ya gotta love movies that successfully mix violence with laughter. Dance does that fairly well. One scene will make you so uncomfortable that you're compelled to turn it off. The next scene will make you giggle. The director moves you from one emotion to the other often with no purpose rather than just shock value, but it works well! Aside from the theme that can (and has) been done many times, the acting made this movie. It was the acting that held me through the difficult parts. As a collector of cult-type movies this one will be added to my collection. Watch without kids and with somebody you love. :)
Rating:
Summary: Nervously Bizarre
Review: Ya gotta love movies that successfully mix violence with laughter. Dance does that fairly well. One scene will make you so uncomfortable that you're compelled to turn it off. The next scene will make you giggle. The director moves you from one emotion to the other often with no purpose rather than just shock value, but it works well! Aside from the theme that can (and has) been done many times, the acting made this movie. It was the acting that held me through the difficult parts. As a collector of cult-type movies this one will be added to my collection. Watch without kids and with somebody you love. :)
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