Absolutely impossibly stupid but entertaining

Rating: Null/10 (18 June 2004)

The best thing about this movie is how a few moments consist of extremely improbable events twisted together resulting in, usually, someones death. It reminds you, to extreme extents, of the classic PC game "The incredible machine". You know, where the bowling ball falls on the string that pulls out the water that frightens the rat-in-the-cage that pulls the hook that... and so on. Who the hell has a deadly guillotine boat model thingy hanging from loosely fastened strings in the basement roof anyway? And elevators have emergency stop buttons for heaven's sake!!
The next best thing is the clichÃ© ratio, which is a lot higher than just about anything else I have ever seen. It is often far over the top and sometimes it falls down to just about laughable, but always more present than the plot.
The story is comfortably predictable, everything is about destiny and how everything is going to happen in a predestined order, so once you have understood the basic (but quite exotic) laws of time, logic and probability that propel the plot in this movie, you can just sit back, relax, and look for goofs and continuity errors.
The special effects in the first car crash are spectacular, and seem to go on forever, like a boring ballet show except the dancers are bouncing wrecks of burning metal and it is too noisy to fall asleep. Soon, however, the real deaths start to take place, and you are presented to much cheaper stuff, like dolls being crushed by glass plates, tomato-sauce-type blood sprayed all over, and computer rendered explosions. Gore and fire! Not enough to be fun, not little enough to be tasteful.
The cast doesn't stand out as bad, which doesn't say much at all, but basically the acting is quite good.
The worst thing about this movie is how it tries to be scary. Actually, in some parts in the beginning, it is, but soon the few scary moments that work serve only to put you off your good laughing mood. Had it been made properly like a Comedy/Horror movie and not only Horror, in the style of, for example, "Braindead", I would have been much less sarcastic.
It all comes down to one of these movies that almost are that enough-bad-to-be-good but simply are too boring or not enough overdone to actually entertain. 2/10.
I can't help but mention that I watched "The Butterfly Effect" just before I saw this movie, and not that the two movies have anything to do with each other, but if you are looking for anything good to watch, "The Butterfly Effect" is far more likely to please you. Watch it!