Dangerous Men

Imagine if you will,: you've created an AI with the intelligence quotient of a sea cucumber. You make it read an aileen wuornos biography 10 times, you make it watch tarantino films for hours, and then you reprogram it to be even dumber than a sea cucumber. Next, you ask it to create a film based on its informational diet. That film is Dangerous Men. Its bad in every way possible. The story is ultra bad. The writing and acting is quite awful. The fight choreography is almost as hard to watch as the attempted SA scenes. The music will give you whiplash. It doesn't get much worse than this in terms of ineptitude, and i feel bad that someone put 20+ years of their life into this mess.

Well some of the music is a positive point, I tried to Shazam it, no such luck, it's like funky porn music stuff.

Jahangir Rad is iIm sure of Indian descent: and the movie definitely has an old Bollywood feel about it.

He probably looked a lot at these type of movie, but shot on Super 8? OK.

Another plus is the locations picked to make the movie,.they are quite beautiful, another Bollywood style.

Balls to the acting, a super backdrop will easily distract.

I had it on in the background and I got drawn in, there are some parts that make you laugh aloud, only because of their badness-: it must be up there with Plan 9 as a total turd to be honest, but was I entertained? Yes I was.

Don't expect actors who can deliver lines, I'm sure most of them are delivering pizza now.

Are the actors among the worse to grace a screen? Yes they are, but (Doctor) Melody Wiggins is sure stunning enough to carry the plot, if there ever was one.

Someone between one and seven stars, going up and down that scale.

Don't try the suffocating headlock at home. It won't work.

I guess Jahangir Salehi Yeganehrad, a.k.a. "John Rad" or "John S. Rad" was overly ambitious with this movie (e.g., Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Music, Cinematographer, etc.). He stretched himself too thin, and everything got scrambled in the process. In addition to the poor acting, the film has no continuity and makes little sense. However, the RiffTrax guys take full advantage of this nonsense, and have a blast with it! The RiffTrax version actually rates 10 stars, so the 5 stars above is kind of a compromise.

This isn't one of those fun bad movies, it's just bad. BUT, it's bad in a way that you can't look away from. Almost no internal logic, time shifting, nonsensical editing changes and a plot that shifts completely 2/3's of the way through. It's like an alien tried to make a movie and failed miserably. See it, but only with people of like minds.

What is there to say about Dangerous Men that hasn't already been said about Afghanistan? The filmmaker, John S. Rad, clearly set out to make the worst movie of all time, but it ended up entertaining me more than most films I've seen. When watching it, I felt I was the butt of some sort of Emperor's-New-Clothes joke, but I couldn't help but laugh. The acting and cinematography are reminiscent of the worst After School Special ever made.

If you are willing to put aside the horrible cuts, dubbing, acting, and film-making technique in general, you might enjoy this surreal and absurd piece of work. I found myself forgetting the finished product and instead wondered how Rad convinced these people (especially the women) to take part in such ludicrous and graphic sex scenes, considering there is no chance that anyone ever dreamed that this movie could make any money.

I am glad to see that it is now on IMDb, after a direct challenge from LA Weekly. Even though the attempt to make it so was contrived, it deserves to be a cult classic shown at midnight on screens across the country.