Manborg (2011)

An absolute waste of money

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

.Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

manborg, manborg, manborg!!! Where do you start...LOVE KUNG FU, GAMING, WEIRDNESS, B MOVIES !!!This film WILL BE a true classic and a film that will be reviewed with many many different lenses as you can see already reviews are mixed - you probably would't know whether to hunt this down or not. Lets say if you get past the first 10 minutes you are curious and starting to figure out if this is worth watching. You will be smiling to yourself and reminding yourself that you are feeling quite happy and do not know why! As you watch you are getting spaced out and are actually enjoying this mess of movie. You will not know why you are watching, what you are watching but it doesn't matter anymore. This is like the old days where films surprised you, llke the early manga titles etc. People will tell you it is blah blah blah...I will tell you to get out the popcorn - watch it late (please remember this is not a rom-com!!) get seriously comfortable and you will be transported into mortal combat itself. Not the modern 64bit version but the old megadrive one!Personally it is so painfully charming i loved every minute!!!!!!

this is epic, its everything in the VHS /early 90s era of film and displayed brilliantly, this film is inspirational!. the characters are constructed very well,the Asian character(number one man) dubbed and dressed like lui kang!, the cocky character straight out of the lost boys and the beautiful Minna.. a bad ass.! the dialog is phenomenal and is guaranteed to make you laugh over and over,the baron steels the show! the visuals are brilliant ranging from well executed green screen and some sort of stop motion.. think of ed 209 from robocop,this is how most of the unearthly characters move and to great effect..manborg himself is epic,his scene with doctor Scorpius is my favorite of the movie.please watch with a light heart and enjoy and appreciate just what the makers have achieved

Imagine an awe-inspiring vision of an inferno descending onto Earth, with machines and demons decimating the last vestiges of mankind. Such an apocalypse brought to life on the big screen could be something brooding and chilling. It could be epic.This is not that movie.Manborg is a cheap, silly, ridiculous little film, and it knows it. It has action, certainly, and plenty of gnarly bloodshed and gratuitous special effects. However, the delivery of the action, dialogue, and the overall story is so over-the-top, so silly, and so cheesy that it's hilarious. Most of the characters here sound like they came from a Mortal Kombat video game, thanks to the overdubbed dialogue. One character even tries to fight MK style. One lady fights like she came straight out of an anime, complete with cheap sound effects and streaky lines behind her. Most other special effects look like they came from the original Doom PC game, because they are that cheap. The film is short and pretty fast, but more importantly, it made me laugh pretty often.The story for this is not an inherently bad idea: I kinda do wish somebody in Hollywood would make a big-scale apocalypse story like this, with the actual forces of Hell being unleashed on the planet (they totally blew it when they adapted Doom). If this same movie was handled with a big budget, big stars, and a distinguished director, it probably would have been awesome. If this movie was a video game instead, it would have been awesome as well. But as it is, the film plays things well within its limitations, keeping things purposefully small-scale and cheap, and simultaneously silly. There are scenes that reminded me a lot of other movies or games - The Terminator, Doom, Quake, Wolfenstein, The Running Man, Fist of the North Star, and other stuff all came to mind. Regardless, the film is pretty fun, even if it lacks depth or originality.This film is very cheaply shot and edited, with gaudy and weird special effects that looked like they came from the stone age. Acting is very silly and over-the-top, and with dubbed dialogue, it's rendered even more hilarious. Writing is very silly. This production uses some very cheap sets, props, and costumes. The music score tries so hard to be cool.If you're looking for something awesomely cheesy and funny, this film will satisfy.2.5/5 (Entertainment: Good | Story: Marginal | Film: Awful)

But in my view, that is a good thing. I am glad I read a little about it on IMDb before watching it or I may have turned it off. "Manborg" runs of the philosophy that if you create something and try your best to make it as bad as possible, you will end up with something really great. And kudos to the cast and crew of this film, because they succeeded. I can't really tell you what this movie is about. Does it have a plot? Yup. Is it a clear plot? Yup. Does it matter? Not in the least bit.The reason "Manborg" worked for me was because it reminded me of a couple of films that me, my sister and my best friend used to make each Halloween. They were horror/comedy anthologies much like the Simpson's Treehouse of Horror episodes. We made them badly and we made them badly deliberately. This appears to be what the producers of "Manborg" went about doing. There are two kinds of bad movies. The first is the kind that nobody likes. It is the result of an attempt to make a good movie that fails miserably. The second is the movie that was meant to be bad. The people who make these movies love bad movies and their appreciation of it keeps us going. It is quite clear that the producers of "Manborg" appreciate cheesy and bad cinema. This is one of those rare finds which I know I will be watching over and over. Don't watch it if you are looking for...well....hmmm... well pretty much anything actually. But if you want to see a movie and spend the entire time absolutely baffled at how anyone could make such a horrid piece of cinema, watch "Manborg" and have an absolutely fun time.