Title: Hard to Kill Part 1
Company/Director: Falcon Films/Spencer Crabb
Genre: Pointless Action Movie
Reviewed by MidbackMan


Scale:
5 to 10: Very Bad	A film of just terrible Quality; Don't bother
11 to 20: Bad		A few slightly redeeming qualities but still not worth your time
21 to 30: It's okay	Very ordinary technical stats; Not worthless but not great
31 to 40: Good		Above average; Usually recommended to the fan of the specific genre
41 to 50: Very Good	Well worth your attention; Content and design are spectacular


Review:
	I never had high hopes for Hard to Kill and when I had seen a bit of it before it
was released I thought to myself, "Oh greeeaaaaat, another action movie." That's basically
what I'm still thinking after watching it in it's completed form.
	The action is only sub-par. Being that there's no story other than a small little
bit where a guy yells at his henchman to not fail him or it's curtains, you have to rely on
the action to entertain you. Unfortunately, the action isn't that hot. The title of the film
doesn't really tell a lie. It's not as blunt as "Pointless Action Movie" but throughout the
whole film there are a slew of people trying to kill one guy and a bunch of others get in
the way and get shot at by even more people... It's sort of absurd. I didn't know what I
was watching. I assume the main character was played by Tuna Hematoma but sometimes the
action revolved around characters I didn't even know. Besides not knowing who was who or why
someone was being attacked by who knows, the scenery mixed with the action could be a bit
confusing. One minute a guy would be running away from some bad guy and the next he's
standing upright on top of a car that's going by the screen. For the most part the scenery
didn't bother me and was actually pretty good.
	It was really the animation and action that I have a bigger problem with. If you're
going to make a pointless action movie than make the action exciting like in Nick the 
Almighty's "Pointless Action Movie!" And to make the action exciting I think I have to know
at least a little bit about what's going on. I mean, even in Litterbug 2 the action was
great but you don't think for one second that it wasn't helped by the fact that the first
movie at least gave us a story and reason for what was going on?
	The music was pretty decent in the areas that weren't action scenes. Spencer used
a good bit of music changing to add a cool effect to some scenes to make some good
atmosphere and even added a bit of tension. It was about the only good thing in the movie.
The music during the action didn't seem to fit because the songs were too fast for the slow
animation but the rest of it was good.
	There's a bunch of other stuff to gripe and nitpick about Hard to Kill, like how
the best action scene in the entire movie - the only scene with even remotely exciting
action, was removed and put as an "added bonus deleted scene." Another gripe could be that
the credits said things like "Henchmen#1 as Ben Williams" instead of the other way around.
But I suppose something that insignificant can be looked over. It's just that I'm looking
for even more crap to yell about since I didn't like it that much AND I'm a little upset
about two things: This movie is "Part 1" and the beginning of the movie makes no mention of
that it will be a 'to be continued' at all (or that the movie will suck but we can't be
expected for that to be present, can we?) AND to top it off, my name wasn't in the credits
where it belongs... I'm not grading the movie any less for that small thing but that doesn't
mean I thought the movie was any good. My only hope is now that Hard to Kill Part 2 will
include some part of a story that will fill us in and will be more exciting in the action
department...


Story:		0/10  
Animation:	6/10 
Scenery:	7/10
Voices:		3/10
Music:		5/10
Total:		21/50


The Movies Highs:
*It has action
*Some good music use in "quiet" scenes
*Decent Scenery


The Movies Lows:
*Crap music for action
*Crap Action
*Only Good Action scene was deleted & used as an "Extra" at the end of the film
*Crap voices
*No Story or real Dialogue


Bottom Line:
	If you want a pointless action movie that has "okay" action then give it a whirl. If
you want a story wait and see if part 2 adds one. I wouldn't watch it again. BUT for you
cable modem-ers maybe you'd enjoy it since it won't take you long to download and the last
action scene that was deleted actually might be worth the price of admission.


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