UKM: The Ultimate Killing Machine starts as four teenage misfits named Waylon (Mac Fyfe), Buddy (Steve Arbuckle), Zoe (Victoria Nestorowicz) & Carrie (Erin Mackinnon) enlist in the US Army. They are taken to Millhaven Research Facility where Major Blevins (Michael Madsen) runs the 'Havoc Project' where scientist Dr. Stroheim (John Evans) is trying to perfect a serum that when injected into a living subject will turn them into an almost unstoppable soldier, the ultimate killing machine if you were. Blevins & Stroheim plan to use the four new recruits as guinea pigs but things go wrong as one of their failed experiments is accidentally freed & goes on a killing rampage inside the locked down facility...
This American Canadian co-production was directed by David Mitchell & is yet another poor generic 'science gone wrong' horror flick that has very little going for it. The script by Tyler Levine & Tim McGregor takes itself extremely seriously & is pretty slow going & very dull, the majority of UKM: The Ultimate Killing Machine is spent following annoying character's around incredibly dark corridors which look almost exactly identical. The film has no pace, the story about a US Military project to create the ultimate weapon through genetics & science is so old hat & clichéd it just feels so routine & predictable, there just isn't a single original idea or scene in the entire thing. The character's are pretty poor, you get the usual bonding scenes as they take it in turns to open their hearts to each other between being chased by a genetic mutant soldier, the Army official's are poorly defined & no-one has any real individuality or personality. At 90 odd minutes in length the film feels a lot longer as we get scene after scene of these character's running around dark corridors doing nothing in particular. It gets very boring very quickly. There isn't even any decent violence or exploitation to distract you from the snail's pace.
Director Mitchell films with competence but little else. One corridor looks pretty much identical to the next one & the whole film becomes very repetitive & bland to look at. One also has to comment on the fact that the military facility featured in UKM: The Ultimate Killing Machine is maybe the darkest & most understaffed ever seen, could they not afford the electric bill? Was this place not fitted with lights? The gore levels are virtually zero, there's some blood splatter, a decapitated head, someone is shot in the head, there are a few injection scenes & a few dead bodies. Basically nothing memorable at all.
According to the IMDb this had a budget of about $5,000,000 which quite simply amazes me, I simply cannot believe a film as basic & sloppy as this cost that amount, I just can't. There's nothing here apart from a small cast & lots of dark corridors which look exactly the same. Filmed in Hamilton in Ontario in Canada. The acting is alright, this is the type of film Michael Madsen has openly admitted he makes to pay the bills & here he seems on autopilot.
UKM: The Ultimate Killing Machine is a routine science gone bad for military reasons horror film where lots of bland character's run around identical almost pitch black corridors. One to forget & one to avoid.
This American Canadian co-production was directed by David Mitchell & is yet another poor generic 'science gone wrong' horror flick that has very little going for it. The script by Tyler Levine & Tim McGregor takes itself extremely seriously & is pretty slow going & very dull, the majority of UKM: The Ultimate Killing Machine is spent following annoying character's around incredibly dark corridors which look almost exactly identical. The film has no pace, the story about a US Military project to create the ultimate weapon through genetics & science is so old hat & clichéd it just feels so routine & predictable, there just isn't a single original idea or scene in the entire thing. The character's are pretty poor, you get the usual bonding scenes as they take it in turns to open their hearts to each other between being chased by a genetic mutant soldier, the Army official's are poorly defined & no-one has any real individuality or personality. At 90 odd minutes in length the film feels a lot longer as we get scene after scene of these character's running around dark corridors doing nothing in particular. It gets very boring very quickly. There isn't even any decent violence or exploitation to distract you from the snail's pace.
Director Mitchell films with competence but little else. One corridor looks pretty much identical to the next one & the whole film becomes very repetitive & bland to look at. One also has to comment on the fact that the military facility featured in UKM: The Ultimate Killing Machine is maybe the darkest & most understaffed ever seen, could they not afford the electric bill? Was this place not fitted with lights? The gore levels are virtually zero, there's some blood splatter, a decapitated head, someone is shot in the head, there are a few injection scenes & a few dead bodies. Basically nothing memorable at all.
According to the IMDb this had a budget of about $5,000,000 which quite simply amazes me, I simply cannot believe a film as basic & sloppy as this cost that amount, I just can't. There's nothing here apart from a small cast & lots of dark corridors which look exactly the same. Filmed in Hamilton in Ontario in Canada. The acting is alright, this is the type of film Michael Madsen has openly admitted he makes to pay the bills & here he seems on autopilot.
UKM: The Ultimate Killing Machine is a routine science gone bad for military reasons horror film where lots of bland character's run around identical almost pitch black corridors. One to forget & one to avoid.