The Purifiers (2005)
The story of martial arts clubs who have created their own city infrastructure after tiring of government initiatives. Responding to the greed and corruption creeping into the other clubs, headed by capitalist-wannabe Moses, The Purifiers battle to maintain the successful system which has rid the city of crime and violence.
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Surprisingly incoherent and boring
Boring
Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.
The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.
Yawn. Some people fight.Yawn. Some more fights Yawn. Dull plot twist yawn. Poor overacting.Yawn. Not sure what happened, eyes heavy cant stay awake.Snoooooooooooooooooooooooore!!!! Yes that best explains my experience of watching the Purifiers, one of the dullest British, ney FILMS ever. And I have sat through Val Kilmer in the Saint and Dr Moreux. Kilmer in Batman Forever. Mortal Komat 2. Now and Then. Matrix 2 & 3.And you know what NOT ONE OF THEM came close to this.Oh and its a rip of off the Warriors with the same ideas done on a lot less money. See the other film instead. SEE ANYOTHER FILM instead!
This film is pretty bad. Directed by 16 Years Of Alcohol's Richard Jobson this film tries hard to be a modern retake on The Warriors but ends up more like a film version of the ZX Spectrum computer game Renegade (but with worse graphics).Getting past the glaringly obvious inaccuracies in the story, the films biggest flaw is the fact the every action scene is in slow motion. The logic behind this is baffling. It takes what would be a 40 min film and makes it clock in at a rather boring hour and a half. And even then what is left is badly put together and brings back memories of poor 80's action films (step up Don Wilson) But beyond even that no one seems to care.Alexander sleep walks through the film, 'Lord Of The Rings' Monaghan just looks bored and the talented support cast hardly get a look in.In short this film is just appalling and has the privilege (in my opinion) of being the worse film funded by the UK lottery fund yet and that's saying something!
Before you read on, I'm not positive this is a spoiler, or at least part of it, that's why I checked the box.I loved it! I mean, yeah the plot was a little...shady??...um, mehish. The cinematography was beautiful and the lighting was really...experimental, but it worked. The only thing I didn't like (besides the language and the mehish plot) was the split screen parts. It was too much to be watching and too fast.Dominic however, was fantastic (maybe I'm a bit biased?)and I'm really pleased to see him in a darker sort of role. He got out of his comfort zone and I loved it.
It is not as bad as I make it sound with the summary. To be honest, I rented this movie strictly because Dominic Monaghan was in it. I had read some bad reviews and was expecting a less than mediocre film. All the same, Dom had looked good in the previews and I figured that if nothing else Dom would be pretty. Dom was pretty. He also did a really good job playing the bad guy. At the end of the movie both my friend and I (we're both big Dom fans) were waiting for somebody to kill him and they did, thank you very much. He is not the main character, but I loved the main character, John. Gordon Alexander did a fantabulous job portraying John as the man who will always stick to what he knows is right and fight what is wrong. There is something of an artistic way this film is done and sometimes it works...other times it doesn't. I still like it a lot and plan on buying on it. It is not what most people would expect when they see the preview, but it is worth a watch.