MONSTER MAN
USA, 2003
Director: Michael Davis
3,5/10
USA, 2003
Director: Michael Davis
3,5/10
"Monster Man" is a mildly entertaining but pretty disappointing horror / comedy / road movie that desperately tries to be witty and original, but ultimately fails due to a flawed script, lame pacing, weak cinematography and some extremely annoying characters.
The first 35 minutes feel like someone mixed "Duel", "Odd Couple" and "40 Year Old Virgin" together. Apart from a few tense scenes and one helluva kick-ass monster truck, we have to get through loads of stupid and unfunny scenes where Eric Jungmann (virgin) and Justin Urich (idiot) talk sooo much shit, it's annoying.
The whole purpose of the next 20 minutes (which are boring beyond hell) is to show how the virgin finally gets his cherry popped.
The remaining 40 minutes are so-so. There's some brilliant-looking gore, more monster truck madness, a Leatherface-like maniac, a Rom-Zombie-esque dysfunctional family and 2-3 really suspenseful scenes - but there's also a dumb plot twist, more annoying characters and an underwhelming ending.
Monster Man is a Monster Mess.
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I just might have to see this for at least the gore. The picture of the half missing person is a bit exciting... in a special effects makeup way. However the monster truck idea is a bit silly, haha.
ReplyDeleteThe gore is quite good and monster trucks are always cool :) but apart from that, the movie didn't do anything for me.
ReplyDeleteI actually didn't hate this. I didn't love it either, haha. But still, I never expected much, so I wasn't disappointed.
ReplyDeleteLOL think the problem was that I actually expected too much of it.
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