This Old Machine

Horrible movie, acting was terrible. So vague in certain aspects too hard to figure out. I was really disappointed although the story line could have at least gone somewhere more.

This movie is downright awful. I only watched it for Kevin Sorbo, whos character in this was very confusing. I have no idea what role his character actually plays in the story. The acting was just awful,, it was so so bad.. Kevin was the only person in this movie who can act. The old man was alright, the rest of the actors were terrible. Most of this story does not make any sense. The ending is terrible. The camera man needed to be fired and banned from movie making forever. The wife is one the most annoying characters I have ever seen. She goes on and on about how terrible her husband is and yet he was never rude to her once, but she was constantly being rude to him, yet her family hated him for some unexplained reason. The characters had no idea what they were doing. They did not know how tonhandle a firearm properly at all, nothing they did was thought out. They were just a couppe of idiots running around looking the man's wife with no idea of what they were doing. Most of the actors in the Movie are ugly as HELL too! It is as if they sought out the ugliest people they could find for this movie. Maybe only really ugly people would apply for the roles.

I should have read the reviews first. OMG could they have kept shots on a person with no dialogue for any longer?? As a filmmaker who has made NO BUDGET to low budget, this was amateur hours with recognizable talent. Someone give me the amount that this film was made on and I will make 2 better films. Writing, directing and acting from the smaller names was horrible. I couldn't give less than one star or I would have given NONE.

I can't relate to the low opinions and star ratings. I'm convinced that the director executed his artist and story-telling vision. The movie portrays high, messy humanity at its worst, and the actors come across as real-life individuals -- no make-up, no beautiful people, no perfect statements/lines,... no contrivances. The acting was real people talking as real people talk and real people do. I feel Henriksen was particularly effective. This movie is life with a little 'l' delivering Life with a big 'L' truth about the human condition. I found it engaging and effective at establishing and sustaining authentic dramatic tension. I still don't like shaky-cam, but here I think it worked; and, sure, there was loose end or two remaining, but life has loose ends, and the story remained focused.

For sure this isn't a masterpiece, for sure the movie is even boring most of the time, but there's still some interesting sequences and some correct acting. When I've see the rating was under 2 stars I was kinda surprised! Particularly when some Asylum movies have a way better overall ratings! Honestly this movie is way better than 99% of the Asylum titles and deserve to have a less negative rating. I can't strongly suggest to have a try but if you have an opportunity to watch it don't be too repulsed with this idea, particularly if you like Lance Henriksen.

My real rating is probably 3.5 out of 10, the 5 is only to correct the awful overall rating over Imdb.