| Deceit (1988) Cast:Norbert Weisser, Scott Paulin,Samantha Phillips A woman is taken hostage by a man who claims to have the robbed the earth and is going to blow such up, all while trying to get in her pants. However a man claiming to be the man's doctor named "Brick Bardo" (No relation to Bloodmatch's Thom Mathews, eh?) however along the way she learns that the doctor isn't who he seems to be either and discovers that life is worth living in the climax. I learned that Cyborg's final print was so awful that Jean-Claude Van Damme reworked the fight sequences and Sheldon Lettich worked with the dialogue and characters to make what is a masterpiece of surreal cheesy awfulness. (Even Roger Ebert found it hilarious.) Of course i've been told (promised) that the movie is far better than its original cut. Of course this also pissed off Albert Pyun so he made his own little film and this was the result. He even gave Jean-Claude Van Damme a thank you in the credits (sarcastic, obviously.) of this movie. However when viewing this movie, it's obvious that Pyun could've used Van Damme and Lettich to recut and rework this movie because the results are just plain boring. The movie is also really stupid and one wonders why on earth why was such an idea thought up and committed to celluoid? The movie's ridiculously low budget does the film no favors since the action sequences are lame, the acting is horrid and the special effects are bad. It really does make you curious about the mind of Albert Pyun, I mean alien robbers who blow up the world and who can only take the form of dead bodies? A upbeat message of how life is great. The fact that the bad guys waste their time trying to get into Phillip's pants when the planet is gonna be destroyed? Samantha Phillips questions why the bad guys just don't rape her, and really I must admit questioning the same. I mean if you're blowing up the planet, what difference does it make? Of course this would disrupt the film's comic tone. The comedy is excruicatingly lame and the film really has no sense of logic or common sense to tie anything together in a coherent movie. The film's upbeat message, the final shootout, the crystal thing that makes fantasies come true, the sets from Cyborg all melded together into a film that is genuinely worthless. Pyun sites this film, Down Twisted, Brain Smasher...A Love Story and Mean Guns as his best efforts (I'll give him credit on Mean Guns) closest to his vision and if this is the case, all I can say is thank god for creative control. D.Albert Pyun* |