A short while ago I wrote about a piece of rancid shit known as Cam Girl that comes in the seven movie set Grindhouse Galore. Well now I moved onto the second movie Future World: City of Mass Destruction. Given the five dollar price tag on the seven movie set I assumed I got a bargain considering this cool looking movie was 25 dollars on the shelf by itself. Thankfully City is much better than Cam Girl, unfortunately not by much. In Cam Girl nothing really happened, in City everything happens. This movie is all over the place and nowhere at once. I give the filmmakers props for making a feature on zero budget, they've created an entire world of neat characters and creatures using the obvious bare essentials and the thing had potential from the start. Unfortunately the story is too big and overwhelming to care about any one thing (an hour and a half in and I still have no idea what's going on) and this beast clocks in at a little over TWO gruelling hours. The visuals at times are impressive, while other times simple shortcuts bring the whole production down, a good example for anyone interested in making films is this; if someone is wearing a mask, especially one that is to be passed off as actual skin always black out the eyes and anywhere else there might be a hole or its going to look stupid!
It's not all bad there's talent hiding amongst the diarreha for sure and had they focused on the group's strengths I'm sure they could have really made themselves famous here, but instead Future World is a complete mess with very little to hold any interest. It's poorly written, badly structured, and takes itself way too seriously.
Future World is that movie that you make with your friends so you can watch together and laugh at every performance, unfortunately we don't know these people, and as such we're not in on the joke. Viewing this probably should have stayed limited to the makers basement. Two down, Five to go. Next up House of Sin, I still have hope that there's something worth watching at least once in this set.
