Another Deadly Weekend Reviews

Okay I saw a trailer for this awhile back and was interested with what I saw. Now I watch the trailer again and wow does it look cheesy. I think the goofiness and gore effects are what possibly drew me in. Most of the "actresses" here are just models. It doesn't help that one of the recognizable faces here was the actor from the Fifty Shades of Grey parody Bound. Anyways I enter this at my own risk. Hell even if it's bad it might be the fun kind of bad.

It's a strange idea to start a movie like this in the middle of the chaos. I do think I understand that their idea might be to get people interested in the prequel to see what happened. Although I wonder if that is just a strategy and the prequel has nothing to do with our current characters.

So the acting is not really all that good and you can tell this was pretty low budget. I do think the injured guy had a lot of the good one-liners. He was also probably the best actor of the group to be honest. The birthday girl in the bar has an accent that I absolutely love. I think there are some characters I actually liked here such as Troit (who comes to save the day), Chandi(the Hindu hottie with Troit), and Billy (the injured guy). Everyone else is boring or over the top.

There are so many stupid scenes and ideas throughout this. I'm sure some were meant to add humor, but they only caused me to shake my head in disgust. It sounds like they say Wes Craven throughout the entire movie which I feel was intended. It however wasn't really amusing to me. The killers (whom I have no idea what they are besides maybe some kind of weird tribe or whatever) constantly tear clothes off the women and watch as others get naked. I don't get why they have to be perverted as well as murderous. Also there is a dumb little filler scene where the guy who went for help stumbles across a woman changing and watches her wasting time. What was the point of showing all the girls at the bar and doing nothing with them. The girls are pretty attractive for the most part with many showing off their bodies either in skimpy outfits or with nothing on. Sadly it doesn't really do anything for the movie other than make it feel like some nude photoshoot with horror thrown into the mix and some nonsensical plot.

What kind of person came up with these character names like Grawesome Crutal which doesn't sound like it would be a name in any language? Troit doesn't sound like a name either, but it is an actual word meaning narrow. Most of the other names are pretty normal though oddly enough.

The death scenes were pretty plain and boring. In fact in some cases you barely even see the death scenes. It's sad that they couldn't even do anything really original with them either. There was an off-screen death scene that made absolutely no sense as you can't even see it.

So this is a part of a trilogy. The way it's edited really does not work too well. It starts in the middle without us knowing what the hell is going on. We don't really know anything about the main group other than they are running from something. Also only two characters supposedly died which I'm sure will happen in the prequel. If the prequel has shows only those two then it's probably going to be pretty boring or just full of random nudity. It may even have some flashback scenes to other groups or just random deaths of strangers just to add kills. It might even just be more boring and pointless than this one.

The way this ended was really lame. First of all there is no reaction to something that happens which seems mostly like bad script writing. It also just ends on a really awfully edited cliffhanger. It kind of does make me want to see what they were looking at and what happens though. I guess in that regard it somewhat did it's job at making one wonder. The way this trilogy breaks off seems more like we are getting the before and after of some commercial breaks which I'm not too sure was a good idea.

Pros:
-A few likeable characters
-Some little bits of funny lines
-Somewhat attractive women with nice bodies

Cons:
-It tries to keep our attention with said ladies with nice bodies
-The acting is pretty awful
-The death scenes are tame and unoriginal
-The editing is awful
-It feels like a very long TV episode that came back from commercial and ended before the next one
-Kane Hodder is barely in it and seemingly killed off after only like 5 minutes of screen time

Anyways the point is the movie was pretty bad and not worth the time wasted on it. This one I actually wanted to turn off, but I didn't so that I could see if anything changed. My opinion might be different for the prequel and the sequel which yes I will be watching. As I am a glutton for punishment. I do think the third may be more enjoyable as Chandi and Troit survived and I actually like those two. Anyways if you decide to watch this you have been warned. It doesn't have much of anything going for it except a very few exceptions.