Avenging Force: The Scarab

As good as a shortfilm of any highschool kids. U cant watch this garbage. Worst actors and maybe recored with a iphone 3.

The people behind this film are notorious for making movies meant to be "so bad it's good" a la Sharknado. You'll see the same faces involved in Jurassic Shark and Raiders of the Lost Shark. I was introduced to these movies through I Hate Everything's review of Jurassic Shark and went on to watch Raiders of the Lost Shark, then ultimately this movie. With the two shark movies as the basis, Avenging Force is surprisingly good. It's still not a great movie but it has a lot more charm and better production in general than later works by the same crew. It's at least worth a watch if you like amateur films that don't have a budget but made a good attempt.

Being a huge fan of the original comics I was greatly disappointed in this film. There is no attempt to tell the origins of any of the main characters even the title character gets the readers digest version. The acting is bad even for a low budget film the lady in red in particular sounds like she is reading lines off a card just off camera. The fight choreography looks like it wasn't even rehearsed the lady in red again is the worst of the group making it painfully obvious that she has never throw a punch in her life. the costumes are laughable at best the lady in red is actually the best of the bunch this time followed by the scarab who's bad batman costume mold with very visible seams wasn't too terrible and would have been passable if the cowl wasn't clearly not connected to the suit and hovering four inches above his shoulders like it warped in shipping or something. And then there is the black terror who's acting seemed the best but it was totally ruined by his hideous costume with a skull and crossbones T shirt that looks like it was crocheted on by someone's grandma, I mean they could have done better if the just bought a jolly roger t shirt at a discount store there not that expensive. The absolute worst is the daredevil suit "agent double-dare in the film". Daredevil is the reason watched this film I am a huge fan of the comics only to find out he's not even in the stupid thing except for one plain clothes fight scene in the middle that doesn't even not even need to be there and the team assembling at the end of the film where he is wearing a plain two tone spandex body suit without eyes or a mouth which was the most disappointing costume in the film "even worse than all the villains just wearing domino masks". When you make a superhero film even on a budget there are some things you cant cut on and costumes is definitely top of the list. and lastly the locations for the film were absurd N.E.D.O.R. headquarters is clearly a museum with no attempt to dress up or disguise the room at all, and I have no words to describe the fact that the final battle actually takes place in a mattress factory I'll say that again a mattress factory, for no reason at all. even micro budget short film makers on youtube know how to build flats and panels to cover what you don't want the audience to see this is just sad. i'm normally a fan of this kind of stuff even the bad one's but this is clearly too much, i might forgive it if it was a student film or someone's first film but no a real production company gave a real director with real films under his belt to make this trash and I just had to comment. It should come with a warning label, Caution the following film is trash watch your step.

On Tubi, this is titled "The Black Scarab", so I thought it was a knockoff of The Blue Beetle. When the opening credits started, the title on screen said "Avenging Guardians", which also popped up when the movie returned after each ad break (tubi).

The reviews giving this movie a 10 seem extremely sarcastic with the hyperbole. But I can't imagine why those reviewers think it's funny to try to bump up the overall rating. Or maybe those were written by the makers of this basement creation.

Anyway, basically a bunch of guys in their 40s decided they wanted to play superhero in the backyard and make it into a movie. One of them talked their job into letting them use the warehouse for scenes, and aomehow they got a few girls to go along with the whole thing. Longest drawnout opening ever with borrowed 'earth from space' footage. It's suppoeed to be dramatic but was my first clue that this was going to be bad. Seriously subpar filming quality, over-the-top cheesy script, worst acting I've seen across an entire movie (usually one person can pull their weight), poor special effects (not unexpected given the low budget and run time), and ridiculous costumes - rubber eye frame disguises, a borrowed batman helmet with the ears sanded down, black eye paint, etc. You get the drift. There was one decent fight scene near the beginning, but the rest were very poorly executed with obvious fake punches and overly dramatic falls.

I wasted my time and stuck with it because I had time to kill for a quick flick before needing to go out, I also tend to be a completionist with movies, but I was tempted to turn it off about 12 minutes in because it was so bad.

I usually enjoyed bad movie but this one is just so pitiful I'm just angry at the time I wasted watching it, which feels like about four hours of my life. Then again that's probably just because this was so bad.

You see this isn't one of those bad movies that is fun to watch because the poorly done parts and bad acting and child level writing are so dumb that you can laugh at it, no, this is one of those movies that is just bad in a very annoying way. Nothing in this movie is good or even slightly entertaining at all. It's just a very badly produced movie with awful picture and sound quality, non actors trying to act and a script that's just boring, boring, BORING.

The only thing even remotely close to being somewhat OK is the well done poster/DVD cover. Don't be fooled by it though, this is just a total dud masquerading as an Avengers spoof or ripoff and trying desperately to look like an actual movie.

Lowest possible rating on this one.