Left for Dead (2007) Movie Review, Trailer, Film Still and Poster

Argentina 2007
Director: Albert Pyun
Cast: Victoria maurette, Andres Bagg, Janet Barr, Soledad Arocena, Javier De la Vega, María Alche
Rating: R
Release Date: November 6th 2007 (Argentina)
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The Movie Review

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Ouch....what is with all the slow-motion scenes??? Does everything have to be like that? Almost everyday, every time I turn on the TV, there are cheap day time dramas with zilch storyline (only quarrels about money and lovers) overwhelmed with soooo unnecessary slo-mo(s).

That's it also the case with Left for Dead, whether they're just talking, shooting, quarrelling, running, walking, or even getting a key. It seems that everything is mandatory to be slow motioned! And....to be zoomed and frozen! Yes zoom in, zoom out, freeze, zoom in, zoom out, freeze, and Slo-Mo! Arrhh..What a mind-numbing movie.

I couldn't believe that technique is also applied to this potentially good movie. Zoom slo-mo zoom zoom slo-mo mo mo zoom and slo-mo. What is with this film? And the main villain oh my my, what a cute guy, so similar with Billy the Kid character in Uwe Boll's Bloodrayne II: Deliverance. Cute-80s-rock-star-like villain with pathetic ability encountered by a hysterical woman with no other expression than to stare deeply all the time, whow, must be a very tiring character to role.

Clementine Templeton (Victoria Maurette) is seen walking through the woods when two women from a gang of fiery women led by Mary Black (Janet Bar), try to rob her. Clem resists and fights back, she reveals that she's just merely looking for a man. Mary then asks Clementine to join the gang in searching for the same man as the one that Clem's been searching for, the one that also responsible for making Mary's daughter Michelle (Mariana Seligmann) pregnant. A man named Blake Sentenza (Javier De La Vega). While on the other part of the woods, Blake frantically runs from three bounty hunters that are also searching Blake for a reward of money.

All of them eventually get to a ghost town called Amnesty, where the ghost of a preacher still lurking the town. A preacher named Mobius Lockhardt (Andress Bagg), who sold his soul to the devil in return for a power to avenge his wife and his baby's death in the hand of whores when the town's people were massacred by these wicked women. We soon learn that the one responsible for all this is none other than Mary Black herself. The fate of those involved will be settled once and for all in Amnesty.

Gory...yes the gory are abundant but c'mon, is it that fun to see a bloody violence involving a baby? Italian gory combined with western set? I accept that, but then again, with baby? No no no.., I'll have to pass this one.

Their performances are unstable, sometimes downright fake, and other times really good, is it the script or something else? I don't know. All that added that misogyny is splattered all over the movie, only the musical soundtracks are superb (Kudos for Tony Riparetti). Wish they were used for a really awesome western movie. Watching it, I have to hold the urge to play game in my cell phone just to pass all the overly (way over!) stylish directing. Sigh...Left for Bored that is...

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