Event 16 (2006)

Great Film overall

Fantastic!

Absolutely Brilliant!

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

This would have to be the worst movies that I have seen for about 10 yrs. The acting was sooooo bad and flatter then a pan-cake. Special effects where very basic and of primary school standard. Some of the plot line was good though and I feel that if it was given to a professional film maker and script writer and established actors, the movie would have been way much better. Really dont' bother watching this crap.

I've never given such a low rating for a movie before as I always try to be positive in my reviews, but having just watched 'Event 16' on DVD I'm astonished that anything as bad as this was ever released at all. The plot summary sounded promising- a time travelling serial killer (echoes of Nicholas Meyer's excellent 'Time After Time' which the plot steals from) .The FX are quite reasonable for an obviously low-budget movie, but that's as far as the plus points go. The acting is completely one dimensional and the bad guys behave like second rate pantomime villains just waiting for an audience of children to boo them.The dialogue is cringingly dire and even the actors look embarrassed at some of the truly awful dialogue they are asked to speak.Product placement was the most obvious of any movie I've ever seen. You didn't need to read the credits to know that Misubishi was the main sponsor. The camera zoomed in on the company logo in almost the first frame and all the vehicles driven by the the main characters were of course all Mitsubishi!This was the first time I had had seen a movie made and produced in New Zealand. I hope there's better to come!

Not everything that comes out of NZ will send you to sleep either.This is a very well produced project that was fun to watch while having a story line that you had to think about as you watched it. At some points of the film I admit I was a bit lost, but at the end of it all when I thought back on it, everything fell into place. With ANY time travel movie you can pick holes in it and say "That was just wrong", but Event16 is one of the best thought out time travel stories I have seen in a long time. The plot twists worked well and while some of the scenes were a bit cheesie (ie. the foot chase) it only added to the overall charm of the film.IMO - Hollywood could learn a lot from this movie as although it has a lot of special effects, they are there to support a good story as apposed to being there because the director wanted to see an explosion that would match his/her ego.I would love to see this film transfered onto film and hopefully bypass the audio problems inherent with LCD projection.Whatever way it goes, I think this film could well end up as a NZ classic along the lines of "Goodbye Pork Pie" and "Bad Taste".

I saw the "World Premiere" of 'Event 16' at the Wellington Film Festival yesterday. I was excited to see a film made by Kiwis in NZ, and the story sounded good, time traveling to 19th Century and bringing back a serial killer.That is where the good ended. This movie was a total waste of time. The story was confusing(granted doing any time traveling movie, something is going to get screwed up) the acting was appalling, the sound was terrible, and this was supposed to be an effects heavy film, which it was, but the effects were dismal, I could have done the effects! I have to let some of this go, because it was so bad. They said we have recreated Wellington 1893 WOW! Yeah all Wellington 1893 was is a 2D picture background and filming in front of it! You didn't recreate anything! And you use rain effects, you should try to make it look the environment is effected by the rain, not a single drop gets on anything but the guy shows up at the door soaking wet! The "time traveling portal": every time when used and someone comes out the other side, the effect makes part of the actors heads disappear. I felt really bad for the director who was in attendance, seeing that on screen. And I know that Mitsubishi sponsored this movie, but do you have to use every chance you had to promote them. ZOOM in on cool "moped" of the future "Hmmmm, I wonder who makes that? Oh its Mitsubishi!" Have some dignity.I cant think of any redeeming qualities for this film. Let me just say not everything that comes out of NZ is made by Peter Jackson.