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A damaged homicide detective (Johnny Messner) must prevent a grieving father from unleashing a "robotic virus" that he believes will destroy the terrorist cell that murdered his son, but at ... Read allA damaged homicide detective (Johnny Messner) must prevent a grieving father from unleashing a "robotic virus" that he believes will destroy the terrorist cell that murdered his son, but at an unimaginable cost.A damaged homicide detective (Johnny Messner) must prevent a grieving father from unleashing a "robotic virus" that he believes will destroy the terrorist cell that murdered his son, but at an unimaginable cost.
Michael Long
- Sergeant Ramirez
- (as Michael J Long)
John Ryan McLaughlin
- Yakov
- (as John Ryan)
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Being able to defeat terrorists and others who are threats using technology that would make deaths on one's side negligible or nil sounds like a great idea for a science fiction film. Right?!
That interesting idea underlies 'Weaponized'. The film may be less than enjoyable for many viewers, however, as it doesn't reveal much about how the weapon is supposed to work. Without introducing spoilers, let's just say that the technology or the weapon involves people controlling other people through some type of transference. I may be mistaken myself, but the transference seems to involve the use of satellites. Viewers who do not make that inference or come up with some idea about how the technology works will likely find the plot ridiculous and they will not enjoy the film.
This film is a great example of the value of having viewers provide feedback on films before their mass release. If that had been done here the producers would likely have been informed of the need to explain the technology so that it would be plausible to viewers. A little explanation could have gone a long way towards making this film better. They would have also likely received some other feedback that would have helped to turn this movie from a decent one into one that is first rate one!
The moral implications of the technology envisioned in this film are also interesting to ponder: Would the world be a better or worse place if people such as Hitler or Stalin could be terminated with ease? And a good answer might be that that is complicated!
That interesting idea underlies 'Weaponized'. The film may be less than enjoyable for many viewers, however, as it doesn't reveal much about how the weapon is supposed to work. Without introducing spoilers, let's just say that the technology or the weapon involves people controlling other people through some type of transference. I may be mistaken myself, but the transference seems to involve the use of satellites. Viewers who do not make that inference or come up with some idea about how the technology works will likely find the plot ridiculous and they will not enjoy the film.
This film is a great example of the value of having viewers provide feedback on films before their mass release. If that had been done here the producers would likely have been informed of the need to explain the technology so that it would be plausible to viewers. A little explanation could have gone a long way towards making this film better. They would have also likely received some other feedback that would have helped to turn this movie from a decent one into one that is first rate one!
The moral implications of the technology envisioned in this film are also interesting to ponder: Would the world be a better or worse place if people such as Hitler or Stalin could be terminated with ease? And a good answer might be that that is complicated!
The list of actors should be a warning... I think I figured out why this film was made... Steven Sehgal's film Sniper:Special Ops was released around the same time and a competing studio needed to throw something out in record time with little to no budget.
I know some of you may be thinking that this statement above might be overly harsh but, seriously, there is no way I could ever be overly harsh. There were redeeming factors: 1.) I enjoy train-wrecks and this is definitely one of them. 2.) Outside of the three main actors the studio skillfully avoided finding anyone with talent - Kudos to them. 3.) They spent 50% of their budget on special effects - if their budget was $10.
It wouldn't have been rated a 1/10 but was slightly let down by poor cinematography, terrible acting, ridiculous dialogue, poor locations, horrible sets, poor sound engineering, terrible special effects, shonky score and really, really awful ending.
Despite all of this - you really should watch this! Why? Same reason people watch new Steven Sehgal and Nicholas Cage movies - I don't know why else.
I know some of you may be thinking that this statement above might be overly harsh but, seriously, there is no way I could ever be overly harsh. There were redeeming factors: 1.) I enjoy train-wrecks and this is definitely one of them. 2.) Outside of the three main actors the studio skillfully avoided finding anyone with talent - Kudos to them. 3.) They spent 50% of their budget on special effects - if their budget was $10.
It wouldn't have been rated a 1/10 but was slightly let down by poor cinematography, terrible acting, ridiculous dialogue, poor locations, horrible sets, poor sound engineering, terrible special effects, shonky score and really, really awful ending.
Despite all of this - you really should watch this! Why? Same reason people watch new Steven Sehgal and Nicholas Cage movies - I don't know why else.
You take good actors, good movie technicians, cameras, lights etc. and you make a movie scripted by your sister's brother in law's hairdresser's pool cleaner. (Sorry for the slur, pool cleaner's of the world, you don't deserve it) Then you direct it while playing video games on three screens and randomly yelling "Action!" "Cut!" and "Print!" (Do they still say "Print?" Whatever) You hire an editor whose last job was making sandwiches, big sandwiches, overstuffed with filling. You don't bother with a composer, you have a soundtrack CD from some other movie, which you randomly add in, at inappropriate volumes, in inappropriate scenes. I suspect that if the folks at the Youtube channel "What's wrong with..." Attempt to do their thing with this movie, they will give up at the 25th minute of the movie as they've already made an hour long video!
well it has good story, but direction is awful, no logical explanation between some scenes lack of explanations make it very bad.
its just collection of some scenes,not good movie at all.
should have done way better.
my opinion is with such powerful story and good actors this director should have done better.
well directing sci-fi movie needs good imagination and logical explanations.
when i watch it it had 7 IMDb rating,thats why i watched it,so we can rate bad and help community to not waste their time
its just collection of some scenes,not good movie at all.
should have done way better.
my opinion is with such powerful story and good actors this director should have done better.
well directing sci-fi movie needs good imagination and logical explanations.
when i watch it it had 7 IMDb rating,thats why i watched it,so we can rate bad and help community to not waste their time
Holy crap this is a horrible @#$@! movie. DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME WITH IT. NOTHING in this movie was good in the least please i beg you learning how to knit for the hour an a half runtime would do more for you then watching this. We could talk now about the cinematography, the lighting, the special effects, the acting, the story, but in the end there is nothing left to say. This was a huge waste of time, I wish I had watched Spongebob instead. Playing a moba would be more fun than watching this. At this point I'm running out of analogies. But the review has to be ten lines. So I'm sorry but. I'm never going to give you up, never going to let you down, never going to run around and desert you. Never going to make you cry, never going to say good bye. Never going to tell a lie and hurt you. Like this show did.
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- TriviaTom Sizemore and Mickey Rourke previously worked together in Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man. Sizemore later criticized Rourke, saying he didn't even act, he just smoked cigarettes. Shortly thereafter, Sizemore entered rehab.
- GoofsAround 1:14:45 Dr Downey and Mitch enter a secured room to deactivate a program. Dr. Downey enters an access code and says the system is locked and wont let him shut it down. Mitch who has never been there fires 3 shots into a piece of equipment and the computer voice says "System Shutdown Imminent" Hilarious !
At least he didn't just pull the plug.
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