Paintball (2009)
4/10
Not funny enough for a ROCKY HORROR wannabe
27 November 2011
Warning: Spoilers
How's this for a premise? Set up an octet for a PREDATORS-style survival game aimed at a non-subtitle-enabled English-speaking audience. To save money, pick half of the so-called "Green" paintball team from the ranks of low-paid, English-illiterate European extras. Then dub in some loop group dialog for this extra-expendable quartet and kill them off quickly enough that the movie won't be ruined for viewers too drunk or high to realize that things these four say are lip-synched worse than a Milli Vanilli video. Hopefully, this subgroup of easily entertained viewers also won't notice all the awkward "blocking" caused by rampant miscommunication between cast and cast or cast and crew. While you're at it, put in some garbage footage intended to simulate the "night vision" of the stalker, since this is sure to disguise the fact that PAINTBALL is edited more haphazardly than half-stirred hash. Who cares if key death scenes are missing? Who cares if the climax is lame? Who cares if the post-climactic scene of a girl running down railroad tracks makes absolutely no sense? You've already taken your euros and run--quickly--to the bank. (If you had really cared about us the least little bit, you'd have added some campy songs into this sorry mix!)
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