Mike Mendez' Killers

I know a guy who came to me and told me that he had a movie he claimed to be very good. If I liked Natural Born Killers and From Dusk Till Dawn, I will love this movie. He couldn't have been more wrong. In two words, it sucked. But to use more words than that, I will say that the movie had a very funny story, it was a very nice little story concerning a couple guys who just broke out of jail and take cover in a nice suburban household. It seems dark and gloomy at first, but 50 minutes later we are revealed to a nice array of insanity. The movie actually fools you into liking it by the end. The point is, the dialogue takes more centerstage than it should and half the time, you dont even know whats going on. Nice story, bad movie. No wonder I have never heard of it before.

As far as my rating goes, I'm voting on the entertainment value of the movie, and not analyzing each category of the movie as far as cinematography, special effects, dialogs and stuff of the sort might go...

The movie is just a completely amazing and over the top adventure, with outlandish plot twists, cheesy lines and dialogs. The characters are just totally unbelievable and over the top that you can't help loving them and most of the movie just feels like a completely delusional experience, but it's AWESOME! It just grips you to it, and entertains the living crap out of ya! Well, at least it made my night! I'd recommend it to any movie-watcher that just likes having a laugh, with some fun involved.

AVOID if you take films too seriously!

I saw a midnight premiere of this movie in college and it quickly disappeared, but it stuck in my head long after I forgot the title, and I'm lucky I re-found it. No one in that theater knew what to expect from this movie, and it start out as everyone's worst nightmare: a cheap, clichéd crime drama. A lot of people walked out after the first 20 minutes, but I was determined to stick it through. And I'm really glad I did.

At the twist point in this movie, the horrible clichés and acting and directing of the first half feel like an amazingly underplayed setup to a punchline with actual humor and shock. Imagine "From Dusk till Dawn" if the vampire angle hadn't been completely ruined by over promotion.

It's really rare that a movie seems to be one thing but then turns completely around halfway through into something 10x better, but this is one of those. It used the low expectations and low budget to it's own advantage and turned out a movie I never forgot.

Having seen "The Convent" years earlier, i was expecting a much more juevenile film than the one i got. What i got was a well filmed movie with much more sophisticated dialogue and plot devices than "The Convent", but still a movie plagued with spotty acting and a B movie atmosphere.

The main thing to appreciate here is the dialogue. Like most things in a Mendez film, its quality fluctuates, but said dialogue is consistently quite good in this film, and the police shop-talk seems to have been pretty well researched, as well.

The main thing this movie is, is fun. I'm personally one of those cinephiles willing to forgive the bad elements of a film in favor of the overall vision and scope of the film. However, while i enjoyed "Real Killers" overall, i must say that the social criticisms and commentaries felt second-hand and that the film has no real "message" as far as I'm concerned, but more mimed and aped morals from movies the director admires. However, the story istelf is whats most prevalent in the movie, with the "pithy" dialogue an underpinning for the whole production.

Not a terrible film, not a brilliant film. "Real Killers" is some good B-movie fare suitable for fans of this type of genre.

M.

this is bad. this is very bad. i had this recommended to me by several friend and i've cut off all subsequent communication with them in the three years since. it's that bad. the dialogue is so conveluted and eager to try to be cool that it takes on the dimensions of a beggar. The acting is probably is decent but given the material it's impossible to tell who's at fault for this train wreck. I was bored to a navel gazing introspection long before the sixty minute mark and from there it continues down hill. I'd rather watch Henry: Portrait of A Serial Killer, or Vulgar, or Natural Born Killers, or anything but beaches.

It's too bad Mike Mendez was involved hilarious budgetly challenged Bimbo Movie Bash. I wanted to like this movie but each terrible moment of celluloid was working against me.

2 out of 10 file under the category of "so bad it skips being wonderfully bad and goes right back to just plain awful"