Natural Vice (2018) User Reviews

Cool Tech, plot has been used several times

[rpeiffer-381-928498 · 5/10 · 28 October 2020]

Speed of flick is slow and fast, cool futuristic tech, not a bad flick. My main complaint is when the Chinese characters speak, there are no subtitles. Personally you can figure out what's going to happen, but without the dialogue it just seemed to add to the slow sections of the flick leave the overall pace flat.

Bizarre movie - In a bad way.

[NickGepetto · 1/10 · 9 September 2019]

Watching this was one of the stranger movie experiences of my movie watching career. The first scene is very cool and futuristic. Think Minority Report. I mean super clean open, especially for a cheap Indie. Even after this scene there seems to be a flow. But this is all in the first 10 minutes. After this. it's all downhill and nothing but dumb trash. So much of the dialog is improvised and the actors are so inexperienced. There is an easy way to tell when inexperienced actors are improvising. They get unnaturally animated to make their point and "sell" their just thought up lines. This movie has bucket loads of this. In addition, there are many clichés throughout. One that is all over this movie: In reduced-rate acting school (think: Night acting classes taught above the 7-11 in downtown St. Paul) they teach a few things. One is to stare at a phone for a really long time after a call has ended. Just stare. It brings "depth" to the scene. Another (and this is a weird one) is to lick the tips of one's fingers when eating anything. They are taught to suck the tips of their fingers when eating. They also tilt their head a little. I have seen this cliché for 50 years. At the end of sucking the tips of their fingers, they make a sharp sucking noise with their mouth - like a snap. It's a true hallmark of a super bad actor and this movie has plenty to go around. So anyways, back to the movie. The main super bad, super cheap actor is supposedly a 50 million a year distributor of MDX - a type of molly. He has a gang of four other bargain basement actors. One that looks like a mongoloid Tony Robbins with a rare communicable disease. In the first drug deal we see them make, they go to a huge party, meet with the "Russians," sell them a bag of drugs, receive an electronic money transfer, and then the bad Russians pull the transfer back. Great bank you got there Mr. lead actor! So their response? They go back into this LA house on a busy street with a full party going on and SHOOT AND KILL 8 people. So imagine that. Many witnesses still alive, LA county detectives will be there in 20 minutes, the country and the world will know all details within an hour. So what happens to them? What do we hear about it? NOTHING. So many levels beyond horrific scriptwriting. Next they inexplicably fly to Hong Kong to tell a dealer who ripped them off they are no longer doing biz with him. That's it! -- Five guys fly LA to Hong Kong on a private jet for the SOLE purpose of the lead super bad actor telling the head Hong Kong dealer "face to face" that they are done doing biz - "cuz that's the way I do business." No effort to get the money back that the Hong Kong dealer stole. Nothing. So head Hong Kong dealer tries to shoot super bad lead actor but super bad lead actor kills head Hong Kong dealer instead. Then the head Hong Kong dealer's brother finds out. And he and his very morbidly obese sister and their team of cliché "Yakuza" bad guys fly to LA for "revenge." But they don't kill the lead super bad lead actor. They kidnap his incredibly average looking girlfriend and challenge super bad lead actor to a (I'm not making this up) 5-on-5 fight to the death. Oh, how I wish I was making this up.

Overall: It's hard to describe how stupid this movie is. So much of the movie consists of these improvised "stories" that the actors inexplicably tell each other. Zero purpose. Special effects in the movie range from "Avengers: Endgame" quality in certain scenes to "iMovie for Mac - 2001 version." So very bizarre. It's always sad to see movies like this because I think of the money being wasted here instead of for a real quality Indie like "Favor." Some of the set design, lighting and cinematography in this movie are exceptional. But this is mixed with horrific writing, terrible acting, cliche finger-sucking, and other garbage to create a truly forgettable video. A bizarre experience and a waste of money.

Get the toys

[nogodnomasters · 2/10 · 8 October 2018]

Adam LeBlanc manufactures MDX, a black capsule similar to Molly. The gizmos were all futuristic and nothing else in the world was advanced. Adam goes to Hong King to cut ties with a dealer that has cheated him. Things don't end well and the Chinese come to California for revenge.

The film had boring characters and backstory. It had a few action scenes with an inane ending. The electronics were the sole reason to watch it.

Guide: F-word, sex, no nudity.

Great Action Scenes!

[melissamontella · 7/10 · 10 September 2018]

This movie was excellent! It had lots of on the edge of your seat action scenes! I have already recommended it to friends! Will be watching again! I highly recommend it!