The Killing Edge

I saw this movie about 15 years ago. It has stayed with me ever since.

I specifically joined IMDb, for the sole pleasure of bitching about this film. Well this film and Battlefield Earth, which by comparison is a marvel of cinematographic brilliance.

My brother (Gary who will never be forgiven for this and I intend to name and shame publicly.) chose this film and we saw it with friends.

It has become our benchmark for how completely rubbish a film can be. No really... this one pushes the envelope...

After 15 years I still feel I was unfairly robbed of 1.5 hours of my life. We sat there staring in disbelief like rabbits staring into an oncoming cars headlights, instead of trusting our instincts and turning it off after the first 5 minutes.

My comments above show more plot and character development and generally a better story line that this film. This film should win any contest for bad taste gift. Should only be bought as a gift for people you don't like.

Utterly utterly cr@p. I'm p1ssed that I can't give it a zero or a minus score. Did I mention this was all time worst film I have ever seen? I have enjoyed TV commercials more than this film.

This film truly deserves legendary status.

edit 10/01/2011: now ~20 years. And my opinion hasn't changed. I am simply stunned that this isn't on the "top 100 worst films ever" list.

What can I say? Rarely have I seen a film so completely devoid of plot, characterisation, acting ability or production skill...the post-apocalyptic premise is hackneyed and most of the film is supposed to be in real time making it even more tedious than it would otherwise be...generally, this film is a complete pile of crap. Unfortunately it's really so bad it's funny..."bye!"

It really is unreal how bad this movie is. It's only 1 hour and 20 minutes long, but it feels like 2 and a half hours long. The dialog is terrible, and maybe 10 pages of script in the entire movie. The plot revolves around a survivor of the nuclear holocaust looking for his family. "The Terminators" are killing anyone who is still alive. Gunfights and special effects are terrible, the budget was obviously realllllly cheap, and it shows. Everyone wears ragtag stuff, and it was filmed at about 5 locations. A field, a forest, a home, a supermarket, and a freeway underpass. Pretty much wherever they could film for free.

No redeeming qualities whatsoever. Avoid at all costs

This film is so unutterably terrible that it remains the best (worst) example of a bad film I have ever seen. Worse than American Ninjas 3 with its rubber knives & awful acting, worse than Sickle even (The Slaughterhouse Massacre with its stupid archetypal characters, wafer thin plot & shameful acting) - why, it's EVEN worse than The Thin Red Line (for which I still want compensation for the hours of wasted life & trauma.) The only reason to watch this film is for comparative purposes - if it's anywhere near The Killing Edge, it isn't worth the time you'll take to watch it. SO bad is this film, in fact, that 10 years after having seen it it remains like the North Star in my discussions on films with my best mate - i.e., well at least it was better than The Killing Edge

So go on, watch it. It's like THAT tape in The Ring - once you watch it, things will NEVER be the same.

The Killing Edge has very little plot, and not much thought or money put into it. But this is a brilliant film when viewed as a spoof. Statements like "How about you Ted, fancy a shave?" and "But first Ted i'll shoot you, you little b@#!€£" both directed at a teddy bear make this a very funny and enjoyable movie. There are some classic fight scenes including a near showdown at the end in which everyone gets shot about 20 times and live. I won't spoil it by giving away the plot(if you can call it a plot) but if you can get hold of this film you are extremely lucky.