Devil's Revenge

Granted, when I stumbled upon this 2019 movie titled "Devil's Revenge", I was initially intrigued. So I picked it up and saw that William Shatner was in it, and I must admit that whatever hopes I had for the movie started to dim. But still, I decided to give the movie a chance and sat down to watch it.

Turn out that my expectations of this movie not being anything grand came to be. This movie was fairly bland and actually rather mundane and pointless. The storyline was essentially to blame here, because director Jared Cohn wasn't really giving the audience much in terms of a proper script or storyline.

What did work for the movie was the special effects and the design of the demonic creatures. I liked those. But sadly they could only do so much to salvage the rest of the movie, which was somewhat of a swing and a miss.

As for the acting, well you shouldn't get your hopes up. And truth be told, it was just toe-curling to watch William Shatner in a movie such as this, holding a grenade launcher and shooting demonic creatures up close and personal with some dubious and questionable CGI effect explosions.

I managed to endure the entire movie, although I can't claim that I was entertained. And this is not a movie that I will be watching a second time.

My rating of "Devil's Revenge" is a mere three out of ten stars.

Great acting by William Shatner. I almost thought he was impersonating my dad for a minute. as always he really sells his character. Unfortunately though the director was not quite as talented and the editor even less so. Post production team gets a D. I really felt like the Director and the Editor didn't care about the final result of all of the effort that went into the rest of the movie. the director didn't spend much time writing a script, and the other actors didn't do much in the way of ad-lib, but that is neither here nor there. It could be saved, but it needs a new score and a re-edit, which i'd like to personally do, because with some modifications this movie could have actually been scary.

Not very well put together, cheap budget horror, that could have been so much better with a good director and a good script , it's about time William Shatner gave up now as his overacting old man portrayal did nothing for the film, the locations were unrealistic, the hunt for the relic was more like an afternoon out with the family in a theme park, though not somewhere you'd take your family with you knowing those creatures lurked in the tomb, nice to see Jeri Ryan but a shame it had to be in this shambles.

After watching 18 minutes I started fast forwarding, normal speed when Captain Kirk was on screen, then fast forward again.

They must have used the entire budget getting Shatner to say a few lines, and he obviously didn't earn his keep.

Blazing sunlight in the cave casting sharp shadows, yet using flashlights was pretty funny.

SFX about fifty years outdated.

Story - none.

Actors - none.

No redeeming anything. It might even be worse than the worst movie "Asylum" films have ever put out.

This is one that should gather all copies of the movie, and buried in concrete with nuclear waste, or put in a rocket and fired into the sun.

Well, one cannot expect much with low budget contemporary horror like this. In any case the film had a few worthy moments like some gore scenes and a few atmospheric glimpses of the bad guys. Star Trek's Voyager's Jerri Ryan is here in a largely contrived and forgettable role. Most of the movie seems nonsensical but everything turns out relatively fine when William Shatner comes in with a solid trademarked over-the-top performance and some killer lines, while his participation lasted much longer than one would expect. For me his presence made this whole thing worthwhile