Agent Revelation

Even if I was rolling in cash, it's not worth the time. Sorry was that too harsh? Shame on me for being tricked.

I know they mean well and they're trying hard - but there's no reward for effort here. It's SO BAD. Maybe I'm missing something and it's bad on purpose? No way, that's giving them too much credit. Don't be fooled by the reviews. Look at the top reviewers and see their rating distribution. It's universally low.

Read a book. Or watch some brainless reality show. Both are better uses of your time.

"Agent Revelation", a sequel to 2017's "Agent", just reeks of Saturday afternoon B-movies from the past, in fact the VFX look like they're from the early '80s. The story is bad, the acting poor, the directing is nowhere - in fact, let's lay this travesty at the feet of actor/writer/director Derek Ting! You have to be at the top of your game to do all three for a film otherwise you end up with something you find in the bargain bin at Walmart for $1.99. The actresses that play "Billy" and "Dr Porter" are pretty attractive but that's not really appropriate for the characters, especially Billy who's military but looks like she's from a modelling shoot. There's all types of incongruencies throughout and Derek, as director, just whiffs on them. Another wasted attempt in the Covid-era.

This is not the worst movie I've ever seen... but not for lack of trying. The dialogue is poor, the action scenes are often clunky, and I could not find myself caring about any of them... even Worf. I would advise a hard no on this one.

So I watched this movie on a streaming service that I rarely use which links review scores from multiple websites to online in the details. The scores on these sites were obviously forged in some way because they were really high - it was a few minutes into the film when I began to notice that virtually all the acting was terrible and then we were introduced to Michael Dorn's character. I actually didn't recognize him at first since he's mostly done voice work for animated projects and video games since playing the iconic Whorf from Star Trek. I thought to myself "why is this guy here, he's actually delivering the only convincing performance"?

So then I picked up my phone and ventured here to IMdB and realized who he was. All I can say is that he must have owed a friend a favour because he's so overqualified for this project I can't imagine what else would have drawn him to it unless he's managed to somehow go broke over the years and is in desperate need of money.

Aside from Dorn, this film offers nothing else. There's no action, no plausible drama, no gore, no horror, no suspense, no nudity, no comedy and it's basically a bunch of people playing alien laser tag with someone who has mild super powers.

I know this filmmaker is associated with making bad films, so I was already suspicious of the ratings. I watched this film anyways since it's part of my job, and it was not what I expected. It was worse.

This is just not a very good movie. It's insane how many fake ratings there are for this film. The vote inflation is obvious to anyone with half a brain. It's safe to say that this film is an embarrassment for all involved.