Lethal (2005) User Reviews

DO NOT WATCH THIS MOVIE!!

[paniceolan · 2/10 · 25 April 2004]

Unless you are a bad action movie craved masochist, do not watch this movie. The acting is horrible, the storyline is weak, a very low budget film. The star can kill 20 of the enemy's goons in one minute (the bad guys are the same guys used over and over again, there might only be 3 or 4 actors and they wear full body black outfits that make them indistinguishable from one amother)

Do not spend any money on this movie - if you want to waste some money, send it to me instead.

Thought they ended making these movies in the 70´s

[fiindus · 2/10 · 26 January 2004]

If you don´t have really vast amounts of time to waste, avoid this ultra-b-movie. My time feels definitely wasted! Bad acting, bad dialog, bad budget, even bad actor-russian and extremely bad dying by the stuntmen, that about sums it up!

Amateurishly done, but delivers what the cover promises

[gridoon · 2/10 · 22 May 2005]

As an action film, "Lethal" is a joke: amateurish and underbudgeted (they didn't even hire extras for the scenes set on the streets or in office buildings!), with very bad fight choreography, editing and camera placement (which even manages to miss a few hits in the fight scenes). But, let's be honest here: the only possible reason you could have for renting this film (unless you're a Lorenzo Lamas fan!) is that the video cover features a good-looking woman in a black tank top holding a gun. And the film actually does feature a good-looking woman in a black tank top holding (and shooting) a gun (and occasionally two guns). Her "serious" acting is painful, but her tough-chick act is engaging, and she has really great abs. As for her co-stars, Frank Zagarino almost manages to come out of this looking decent, and Lorenzo Lamas, playing the bad guy, tries for a Russian accent, which at least shows that he doesn't take himself all that seriously. (*)

WORST FILM(almost) EVER

[Adridot · 1/10 · 22 April 2004]

This film I was watching, just because I wanted to see something from 2004, that is the dumbest thing I have ever done!

This might is the worst film ever, the acting was terrible, some direction could have been ten thousand times better! The story was lousy.

Maybe the only thing that was good about this film was that it was some good ladies in it, that's it!

I forgot to read at imdb.com before I saw it, I will never forget that again!

This movie suck!

Bit on the poor side !!

[i_am_da_fly · 1/10 · 2 February 2004]

The direction is shocking! Fight choreography is poor! There's a real lack of fluidity in the scenes.. Check out the kicked over table that magically stands on it's side in an instant !

The leading lady was hot though...! Probably not enough for most people to bother with this one !

One of the worst movies I've ever seen...

[gr_a · 6 July 2004]

well actually its really hard to find movie which is REALLY bad in every point of view.To be honest acting is awful, fights choreography sucks, dialogs are stupid and and and... I could waste more space for description but no one would give me the time back I wasted watching that nasty movie :( Lorenzo Lamas played really bad, the

central female figure is just a shadow, totally without any kind of charisma, acting like a stupid doll, enemies are played by maximum 4 guys who popping again and again

(annoying to death)...STAY AWAY..STAY AWAY STAY AWAY!

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Phony

[dmitriych · 1/10 · 9 February 2009]

This is just about as phony and cliché as an action flick can get. It is so phony it almost looks like a spoof because every element a spoof would laugh at is in Lethal. You have everything--an evil psychotic Russian mobster, an ass-kicking bimbo, professional terrorist mercenaries who can never hit a target 20 yards away in the open and never shoot together (they pop up one after another just to miss their target and be killed by the bimbo waving a machine gun at them). The bimbo can walk, look straight ahead and still see a guy aiming at her from behind. And of course, they all love holding a gun to your head and telling you all about their emotional problems leading to them becoming terrorists, giving you plenty of chance to escape. Watching this movie, you almost scream "will you shoot her already!" To add insult to injury, a building where they develop space-age military technology must be guarded by a horny useless nerd. You can get in with someone's ID and of course the entire office floor is conveniently empty in the middle of the day, no computer is locked, no files are encrypted. But I'm sure if they were, any bimbo could quickly "break" the encryption or guess the password. And you guessed right, dear readers, you hear a police siren literally a second after the last shot is fired.

Pass this one, BELIEVE ME!

[newtonattraction · 1/10 · 21 January 2004]

This was horrible. Bad directing and acting. Don't waste your time on this one. Everything feels fake in this movie. Have nothing positive about this movie to say. Failed

You are desperate? It could help, otherwise, there are better things to see

[TuDiosEsMiBastardo · 3/10 · 14 October 2006]

Its not a good movie, but you can laugh so much of it... It can inspire great parodies, if they were worth it... Character design was good now and then but in the run this quality was thwarted by tradition.

Extras, for example, did their parts in ways so ridiculous one could really think it was a satire, the doorman was such an excessive stereotype. The overall events could make sense but by themselves did not. Conversations were too much of an obvious attempt to explain events instead of natural happenings in the film... The best attempt at that was damaged by the oversimplification of senseless characters invited to help as a new goal once the former goal was lost...

Waste of my free movie ticket

[natester1188 · 1/10 · 11 January 2006]

This movie, to be honest, was the worst movie I have seen. I fast-forwarded through the whole movie after the first scene, and I still knew what was going on. Although the first scene contains a few explosions and a stolen cycle, the movie sucks. This movie was like Napolean Dynamite, with explosions. I shouldn't even be wasting my time with this review, but I would like to let everyone know that it will be a waste of your two dollars by renting this movie. I recommend going to your local movie rental store and boycotting this movie to get your point across if you have seen the movie. (Do not actually try this, as you may be shot by a chick in a black top.)

Cinematic dreck

[finkess · 1/10 · 22 April 2005]

I can normally manage to find something really salvageable out of bad movies. Heck, I enjoyed Highlander II so much that I've seen it more times than can possibly be good for me and *still* like it, even though I now know the plot holes it causes in the Highlander universe. But this piece of cinematic dreck takes the complete biscuit.

It is bad.

It is, in fact, arguably the worst film of 2004.

And the really sad thing about it is, it needn't have been. The opening scene was a scene of true promise. The story suggested that the plot would revolve around two rival gangs chasing after a thief who'd stolen their plans - no guarantees that would have actually been better, but at least it might have been interesting. Instead, through some deluded idea that t-n-a sells movies, what we got was 80 some odd minutes of laughably stupid film making interspersed with hysterically bad action - action that's made worse by the very obviously small stunt crew.

If you watch one movie this year, watch ANYTHING but this.

I think I'd rather stick forks in my eyes than watch this film again.

Bulletproof curtains and many masked men

[unbrokenmetal · 4/10 · 27 October 2015]

Samantha Stewart (Heather Marie Marsden) is a tough mercenary lady who shoots bad guys a lot. They are easy to spot because they all wear black masks. Not only during attacks, but also when they are alone in their hiding-place, maybe they like wearing masks so much, or is it just that the audience shouldn't realize the same 3 stunt-men are shot again and again? Anyhow, FBI agent Ethan Marshall (Frank Zagarino) wants Samantha to stay away from one particularly evil killer named Fedorov (Lorenzo Lamas), who is so evil that he shoots 2 of his own men just to test his new gun ('I like this gun!', he happily exclaims). But after Fedorov kills her friend Kordell (John Colton) and kidnaps her sister Heather (Jennifer MacIsaac), Samantha gets her Uzi and goes after Fedorov. Or maybe it was because Fedorov's men destroyed her kitchen? An action movie with a simple recipe - have masked men shoot at the pretty lady every 5 minutes to keep the audience awake. The funniest moment was when one guy hides behind a curtain, so bullets can't hit him. Very modest entertainment which is easily exceeded in quality by any television action series episode.

So bad, it's just another action movie pappy show!

[smiley-32 · 24 July 2006]

I saw this film yesterday.. I must admit, it's one of the most crappiest action movies I've ever seen. OK, you got this blonde babe going around in some black tank top. There's nothing really sexy about it. Just some woman carrying a gun shooting down the bad guys..

Lorenzo Lamas plays the bad guy in this flick. He's trying hard to put on this Russian accent. It was so bad. The fight scenes were OK in some parts, but the shootout scenes were awful. I could've swore that this dark-haired guy shot this black uniformed terrorist off the roof.

After watching this film, I felt as if the filmmakers really wasted their talent on making this pile of sh*te!

I got nothing against Lorenzo Lamas and Frank Zagarino. Yes! They maybe good actors, but how comes they got sucked into this rubbish?

Well, at the end of the day.. This is one film that shouldn't be made. Bad script. Bad directing. All pappy show! A totally awful 0 out of 10!

Had the potential to be mediocre, but couldn't quite aim that high.

[seasparrow32 · 3/10 · 8 April 2013]

An overwrought, poorly acted tale of a former-FBI-cadet-turned-mercenary trying to rescue her kidnapped sister and put her troubled past behind her and you know what, I just can't finish typing anything else in that sentence...

All the pieces are here for this to have been an effective low-budget piece of disposable fluff-- moderately attractive actors, plenty of fake guns and cheap holsters, lush California palm trees and soaring mountains in the background-- but sadly it doesn't come together in any effective or entertaining way.

My wife says "Its like this movie was made by people who sort of heard a description of what a movie should be, but had never actually seen one. One good point though, it is virtually impossible to be distracted from housework or sewing while watching this movie."

Personally, I think this movie is a cheap knock-off of "Burn Notice", but made by a crew of people with brain damage. I'm not sure if they were born with brain damage (which would be sad) or maybe they were all injured in a terrible car accident. But evidence of brain damage is definitely there.