Despiser

Rating:
Summary: An imaginative and cool fantasy!
Review: DESPISER is a wild little film. Made for almost nothing, I found it refreshing and innovative for its budget. I could easily have seen this as a main stream Hollywood flick with some star power and money behind it -- an imaginative and cool fantasy. It's certainly better than most of the shot on video features that liter the shelves of rental stores. If you like a fantasy adventure that's not cynical, has a lot of action and an fairly original storyline, check it out. If your in it just for T&A and blood and an gore, it won't be your cup of tea.


Rating:
Summary: An imaginative and cool fantasy!
Review: DESPISER is a wild little film. Made for almost nothing, I found it refreshing and innovative for its budget. I could easily have seen this as a main stream Hollywood flick with some star power and money behind it -- an imaginative and cool fantasy. It's certainly better than most of the shot on video features that liter the shelves of rental stores.

There is undeniably a lot to enjoy in Despiser. It's an ambitious project ... Given its budget, it achieves much... I'd like to see what Phil Cook could do with some Hollywood resources or even some decent indie financial backing. If you like a fantasy adventure that's not cynical, has a lot of action and an fairly original storyline, check it out. If your in it just for T&A and blood and an gore, it won't be your cup of tea.

Rating:
Summary: Imaginative Fantasy
Review: Frankly, I was surprised by DESPISER. It was a witty, imaginative adventure and after a few minutes, I fully accepted its stylized look. The explosive finale was pretty impressive for a little direct to video flick and the animated car chase over the lava bridges was pretty cool--sort of a SPEED RACER in CG. As far as the graphics are concerned, they not as real as say the animated HULK which cost millions more? Please! At this point, the graphics in both pictures requires suspension of disbelief. The bottom line is does the story have a heart and soul and have something to say? Do you get involved with the characters and their quest? In my view, the answer for DESPISER is yes.

Rating:
Summary: Imaginative Fantasy
Review: Frankly, I was surprised by DESPISER. It was a witty, imaginative adventure and after a few minutes, I fully accepted its stylized look. The explosive finale was pretty impressive for a little direct to video flick and the animated car chase over the lava bridges was pretty cool--sort of a SPEED RACER in CG. As far as the graphics are concerned, they not as real as say the animated HULK which cost millions more? Please! At this point, the graphics in both pictures requires suspension of disbelief. The bottom line is does the story have a heart and soul and have something to say? Do you get involved with the characters and their quest? In my view, the answer for DESPISER is yes.

Rating:
Summary: I'd rather have a broken glass enema then watch this swill.
Review: I rented this movie fully expecting an hour and a half long crapfest, full of lo-grade troma/full moon-esque special effects, subpar acting and dumb storylines. The kind of dumb many B horror movies are whiile still being entertaining.

This movie exceeded my expectations in the worst way possible. Let's analyze it section by section:

Acting:
- The acting was astoundingly terrible. First, there's a girl who's supposed to have a british accent, but it fluctuates between british, southern, new england, and a few other ones during the course of the film, none of which were believable anyway.
- There was a hispanic man who was somehow supposed to be asian.
- I'm almost certain the lead character was Phil Collins.
- All of the acting flowed like a fourth grade play on the four food groups.

Special Effects

I understand completely that this movie had a low budget and couldn't afford Industrial Light and Magic to come in and create a beautiful realistic CG representation of purgatory, but if you don't have it DON'T flaunt it.
Every three seconds you're whisked away to a wonderland of horrid CG that looks to have been made by the director's 38 year old cousin who lives in his mom's basement.
I can accept that purgatory is a fantastic place that would be hard to fully capture with nothing but sets and on-camera special effects, and using cg, even if it's pretty hokey CG for establishing shots and such. Unfortunately this movie seemed to take great pride in it's horrible CG and used it for scenes it could have easily just shot (i.e. a car driving, an actor walking in a field, an actor standing up in a church). It's not like they'd be wasting film, the whole thing looked to be shot on DV.

To be completely honest, i didn't get all the way through this movie due to a faulty DVD i rented. I think there was divine intervention involved in order to save me from the suicide this movie was going to drive me to.

It was so bad that I've looked up the names of anybody who said anything good about this film in their reviews on IMDB to see if they're affiliated with the movie. I'm absolutely convinced that no sane human being can honestly like this film. No names have come up yet, but I will keep you posted.

in summary

horrible plot + deplorable acting + (terrible special effects x overusing the hell out of them) = total crap movie (and not in a good, funny way).

Rating:
Summary: I'd rather have a broken glass enema then watch this swill.
Review: I rented this movie fully expecting an hour and a half long crapfest, full of lo-grade troma/full moon-esque special effects, subpar acting and dumb storylines. The kind of dumb many B horror movies are whiile still being entertaining.

This movie exceeded my expectations in the worst way possible. Let's analyze it section by section:

Acting:
- The acting was astoundingly terrible. First, there's a girl who's supposed to have a british accent, but it fluctuates between british, southern, new england, and a few other ones during the course of the film, none of which were believable anyway.
- There was a hispanic man who was somehow supposed to be asian.
- I'm almost certain the lead character was Phil Collins.
- All of the acting flowed like a fourth grade play on the four food groups.

Special Effects

I understand completely that this movie had a low budget and couldn't afford Industrial Light and Magic to come in and create a beautiful realistic CG representation of purgatory, but if you don't have it DON'T flaunt it.
Every three seconds you're whisked away to a wonderland of horrid CG that looks to have been made by the director's 38 year old cousin who lives in his mom's basement.
I can accept that purgatory is a fantastic place that would be hard to fully capture with nothing but sets and on-camera special effects, and using cg, even if it's pretty hokey CG for establishing shots and such. Unfortunately this movie seemed to take great pride in it's horrible CG and used it for scenes it could have easily just shot (i.e. a car driving, an actor walking in a field, an actor standing up in a church). It's not like they'd be wasting film, the whole thing looked to be shot on DV.

To be completely honest, i didn't get all the way through this movie due to a faulty DVD i rented. I think there was divine intervention involved in order to save me from the suicide this movie was going to drive me to.

in summary

horrible plot + deplorable acting + (terrible special effects x overusing the hell out of them) = total crap movie (and not in a good way).

Rating:
Summary: Huh, did these other reviewers watch something else?
Review: I totally disagree with the other reviewers. The underworld depiction was heavily utilizing computer generated graphics is correct according the reviewers. However, they looked like video arcade game graphics generated by old school Atari games. The story is the only thing I can give credit for. I dont care too much for logic esp. when it has a religeous slant to the film, which does make this movie fun. I guess if you are Catholic you might want to try this film out because the majority of the movie is set in Purgatory. I dont weigh it too heavy on watching poor quality low budget films because often low budget films surpass high budget films. What I am looking for is creative ideas, storyline.

Pros:
-Interesting storyline, credit of one star goes to good use of imagination and good use of graphics at particular times.

Cons:
-Really lame graphics.
-Horrible costume design. The Demons looked like bums in rags.
-The action resembled a bad Xena fight.
-Interesting storyline but does not put it together to make it effective enough to make the audience feel like it was enough to make you impressed with it.

Rating:
Summary: Huh, did these other reviewers watch something else?
Review: I totally disagree with the other reviewers. The underworld depiction was heavily utilizing computer generated graphics is correct according the reviewers. However, they looked like video arcade game graphics generated by old school Atari games. The story is the only thing I can give credit for. I dont care too much for logic esp. when it has a religeous slant to the film, which does make this movie fun. I guess if you are Catholic you might want to try this film out because the majority of the movie is set in Purgatory. I dont weigh it too heavy on watching poor quality low budget films because often low budget films surpass high budget films. What I am looking for is creative ideas, storyline.

Pros:
-Interesting storyline, credit of one star goes to good use of imagination and good use of graphics at particular times.

Cons:
-Really lame graphics.
-Horrible costume design. The Demons looked like bums in rags.
-The action resembled a bad Xena fight.
-Interesting storyline but does not put it together to make it effective enough to make the audience feel like it was enough to make you impressed with it.

Rating:
Summary: A Good Ride!
Review: I was impressed with DESPISER. It's a wild fantasy adventure that obviously had a lot of heart, thought and soul put in it. For its modest budget, the effects are wild, its settings imaginative and its pacing nimble. The characters are a lot of fun and there's tons of action. A good popcorn romp. I'd go to purgatory to rescue Gage Sheridan!

Rating:
Summary: A very decent budget title..
Review: I was totally surprised by how much I enjoyed watching this film. It has an interesting storyline: an artist, down on his luck, gets zapped into Purgatory and gets involved in the struggle between Good and Evil.

The director takes a more down-to-Earth approach to depict this fight; mixing car chases and gunfights along with the traditional demons and monsters. I also liked the way the director used computer generated images as a cost cutting way of depicting the underworld and certain action scenes. The CGIs are not great, but they are decent enough. This is a very solid B-Grade movie.