Comin' at Ya!

The DVD edition in 3D, widescreen 2:35 and dolby surround is a must and gives credit to this good western.

A so-so screenplay with a hero exploring his dark side while he seeks revenge...but describing a bunch of helpless women screaming at the view of some poorly animated bats. A bit macho stuff, but quite professionally handled.

The essential is in the cinematography : not much dialogue but everything is on the screen, the images speak for themselves. They don't need dialogue to explain what's going on. In that way, Ferdinando BALDI is a great director: not many are capable of this.

As for the 3D, some actions are quite powerful (the explosions, the fire...) some others especially shot for the 3D experience then not necessary.

Victoria ABRIL brings a feminine touch which was really needed.

But a good entertainment indeed.

Coming to view this, you can't help but think this was Tarantino's inspiration for KILL BILL, or more like, KILL BILL 2. We can only wish, we were watching that movie instead of this. From the cool, great action filled cover, it's 3D version, which would be more wort, it's watch, Comin' At Ya, comes up short. If I had seen, it, in the 80's, I would of had a different opinion of it, and I wish I had. What was frightening and disappointing, was this, was typically what I expected from this, and I got it.A 6 out of 10 movie. Poster cover 10/10 though. There are some cool moments, the highlight being the smart credit opening scene, and the implied 3D moments, but I terribly got what I expected from this. If you brush that aside, and accept it for the originality and photography color/black and white, repeat, it is a nice little Saturday arvo watch. Gene Quintano, makes a great likeable hero, and our fat busty villain, makes a great memorable villain, while Victoria April, is just great as always, throwing some nice sexiness into her role. There are some Sin City moments, as in it's photography, and those bullets ripping through flesh, blood spouting moments, are memorably impactful, but this film just come up short, on a many stops. I can't believe how real those bats looked, especially when you can faintly see the strings. Still a definite watch with great respectful performances. I would like to see more stuff with Quintano in it. We even have some familiar music to Kill Bill in this one.

Even if I had seen the movie in the original 3-D process it was filmed in, I seriously doubt it could have masked the utterly boring and unoriginal story. The constant jabbing of things into the camera lens is initially amusing, but soon becomes tiring.

In fact, the whole movie is seriously tired, a mix of elements from previous Tony Anthony movies (some of which were ripped off from Sergio Leone movies - talk about copies of copies!), and once again Anthony gives a performance that alternates between indifference and about-to-burst-into-tears. Much of the budget must have been spent on buying an extra camera, because the movie has a real cheap and quickly-shot appearance.

If you decide to watch the movie anyway, be sure you have fresh batteries in your remote - I guarantee you'll be using the fast-forward button a lot.

This was absolutely the worst movie I ever saw. Believe it or not, I paid to see this bomb at the movie theater and it is only one of two movies that I ever walked out of! No plot, poor effects, horrible script.

I saw "Comin' At Ya!" when it was released in 1981. Remembering that it was highly entertaining, if cheesy, I happily threw down my 14 bucks for the DVD re-release. If you're thinking about buying it, three words: Don't do it.

Rhino has converted the film to the red/blue 3D process (as opposed to the polarization process--if you've seen the 3D movies at Disneyland or Universal Studios, you know what I mean), and the results are horrible. Not only does the 3D not work, the red and blue lenses ruin the color (red/blue 3D is better suited to black and white movies or monochromatic comic books). I gave up the glasses after ten minutes, muted the colors on my TV, and fast-forwarded to the fight scenes. It wasn't even worth the 14 dollars I paid for the DVD, and I'm taking it back.

I'm very disappointed with Rhino for even releasing the DVD with the shoddy 3D. It's as if someone said, "Yeah, the 3D doesn't work, but who cares? They'll buy it for the gimmick." If you absolutely must see it again, rent it or con a friend into buying it. Because it is absolutely not worth the money.

As for the movie itself--c'mon, rubber bats on wires; flaming arrows; spears bouncing along on half-taut wires as they come "right at you"? That's what 3D was made for. The director uses every excuse to throw things at the camera, and then some. Most of them defy logic. But it might make a good party game to predict what object on screen is going to come at you next.

"Comin' At Ya!" is pure 3D cheese, and I loved it. Just don't expect good 3D.