Epicenter

From the beginning, I was intrigued by mystery and the hi-tech security measures, but then came the car chase, and I decided Epicenter was aimed at the 10 to 12-year-old crowd.... cars flying through the air and a train crash that sent it rolling sideways, over and over. But fairly soon it turned into an x-rater with fully nude dancers in a night club, followed by a very explicit sex scene. The acting was mostly good, but the script made both the good guys and bad guys more interested in their jobs than in the severe earthquake all around them. The movie did keep me watching, so I rate it at five.

And here is another one from the guy's of PM entertainment. The people who brought you films like Hologram Man and launched the career of one Evan Lurie. I've seen a lot of movies from these guy's and yes there all nobrainers, lot's of explosions, a lot of rip -offs and second and third rate faces and acting, but fun strange enough. There all made for a shoestring budget and the plot is nowhere to be found but they look good and are quite well crafted. And so we have epicentre with a Traci - no I am not a minor - Lords and Gary Daniels, another PM star. The plot is about some stolen chip, a handy use of a webcam and an earthquake and a lot of it is shot in some ex Iron Curtain Country, try to piece the plot together from other movies in the dull parts.

To keep it simple the movie was put together partially with help from other movies. I'm thinking "Metro" with Eddie Murphy (the scene with the cable car (MUNI?)). They didn't even bother to change the driver. Same guy, same bullet wounds. Next I'm thinking Money Train. The scene were a subway train rolls around knocking down some stilts or something was cut and pasted directly from "Money Train" with Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson. Also, scenes were copied (not cut and pasted, I think) from Speed with Keanu Reeves: the elevator scene, were a person gets rescued out of the elevator in the nick of time before it crashes several floors down.

Wasn't there some scenes pasted from Volcano with Tommy Lee Jones?

Nevertheless, Traci is the most amazing FBI-agent, I've ever seen. Bigger and stronger guys couldn't even go half the way she went. And I especially like the scene where she and Gary Daniels floats down some drain I think it is? Her hair is neatly combed backwards even though they're dropping like hammers down the drain.

A bit superficial and amateur-like, Traci. Don't settle for this. Go I've seen your in your earlier carrier. Well, I'm a guy, aren't I? But you can do more and better?

(Wonder if anyone ever reads this, let alone Traci. But anyway... :)

I was really looking forward to watching this movie for a while but then I found it was airing on UPN network and that kind of disappointed me. It was a decent action movie but it lacked the martial art fight scenes that I was hoping on since Gary Daniels was starring in it. Gary's role was kind of like a villian role until the end of the movie I didn't really like that. If I were to rate I would rate **out of****.

This film was nowhere near as bad a movie as I was expecting after reading several reviews. Yes it did contain sequences from some other movies, however, I still enjoyed watching it. I thought that Traci Lords playing the main part of Agent Amanda Foster was decent and that her partnership with Gary Daniels worked quite well. In parts, I found it to be quite exciting and thought it moved along at a decent pace. Because this was a low budget movie, the special effects where not that great,however,I have seen much worse. If you do not take this film too seriously,then I think that you should(perhaps surprisingly) be entertained.