Darkhunters

Rating:
Summary: Enjoyable B movie
Review: I really enjoyed this film. It wasn't as scary as the video box suggested but it had a likeable freshness that set it apart from more standard genre fare. I love Jeff Fahey and here he is as good as he has been in the last ten years or so. But really what makes this film is the special effects (in particular the angel at the end of the movie). Well worth checking out even if it is sometimes painfully slow.

Rating:
Summary: Hunting for a Plot
Review: It's a shame. There's an interesting idea here, but it gets completely lost in a confusion of Commodore 64 style computer effects and bad storytelling. The plot, such as it is, concerns a bounty hunter of souls. It should be a fairly straightforward hunter/hunted kind of story, but the director and/or the writer seem like they forgot what the movie was supposed to be when they were about three days into shooting. Things aren't helped by the fact that the main baddie looks like he's wearing a cheap Darth Maul mask, which they tried to disguise with flowing CG colors. Not much to recommend here, even the title seems to propel it into obscurity.