Adrenalina

This feels like movie that was dubbed into English from the original Linear A. Adrenaline was surely a mistranslation. The word they were looking for was "Don't".

Lambert and Henstridge are competent actors. They have earned themselves a better film than this. There are plot holes you can fly the space shuttle through. Enough continuity errors for a drinking game. The production crew should have waited for the gaffer to return from vacation before filming. And vampires. Vampires! How original.

Three stars for Lambert and Henstridge doing their best to turn nothing into something. Zero stars for the nothing they had to work with.

Three stars.

Rock-bottom stuff in most respects, but fairly energetic camerawork, short running time and the gorgeous Henstridge keep it reasonably painless - if you don't mind the sloppy editing and the fact that the script is virtually non-existent. (**)

I'm not really concerned with whether or not this was a low or big budget movie. A good film can be made with few or lots of $. Unfortunately, this one is a stinker. The overall idea of cops chasing a viiolent plague victim is interesting, but the execution is poor. There are so many illogical and outright silly goings on that it's hard to get involved with the film. Not helping things is the slew of cliched tricks and devices thrown in from the constant amplified panting of all the characters to flashlights that go out at all the right, or wrong times. The film has a few overtly gratuitous and pointlessly nasty scenes. The ending is just flat out incoherent. On the plus side, Lambert and Henstridge don't suck. They are not given much to do acting wise in the picture, but with what they have to work with they do a passable job. There are a few moments of suspense but mostly the film alternates between being repellent and insulting.

Awesome movie. Fast-paced from beginning to the end. It never gets boring. Very gory and bloody. Kick-ass movie. 10/10...

It would be unfair to comment that Adrenalin is boring at all. Although it was a low budget Pyun film, it has its moments. Although I watched the movie on TV, I still got some excitement. Not bad as a B grade thriller for mediocre audience like me! One thing I am still confused about, in the beginning of the movie it reads "Romania, western Europe", but the movie trailer says it is Boston.

Another plot hole of the film, to me, is if the guy who was infected by a virus something like rabies, seems to be sane and very intelligent. How could he be so clever and retain his mental composure? He was supposed to be delirious or in coma instead. I don't think the writer cared about this details.

3 out of 10, for the sake of the face value of Lambert, my icon.