Botched

Plot synopsis:
Richie Donovan works as a professional thief for Groznyi, a wealthy businessman, to pay off his debt for being smuggled into the U.S. as a child. He pulls off an initially successful diamond heist, but it is botched when he is involved in two separate car accidents. He is given one last chance to pay off his debt by going to Russia to steal a priceless antique cross, locked in a safe in a Moscow penthouse apartment. Richie and his Russian accomplices, brothers Peter and Yuri, recover the cross; but their elevator becomes stuck on the uncompleted 13th floor. Believing the police have stopped the elevator, the thieves take their fellow passengers hostage to negotiate an escape. They agree to send one hostage down; but, when the elevator doors open on the ground floor, the hostage has mysteriously been beheaded.
The remaining hostages quickly divide into two groups: a Christian group consisting of Sonya, Helena and Katerina, who are later joined by Yuri, and another group consisting of nerdy Dmitry, beautiful Anna, and incompetent security guard Boris.
In the confusion, the Christian group seizes firearms and takes control, shooting Peter. Katerina is sent to stand guard over Richie and the remainder of the hostages, while Sonya takes Yuri to a chamber where he is to sacrificed by a wild man in armor named Alex. Yuri escapes, but he is impaled by one of Alex's traps, complete with disco music and lighting. In his rage, Alex kills Katerina, allowing Richie and the hostages to escape. They discover Alex's lair, where he has been watching everyone using security cameras. A photo reveals that Alex is the twin brother of Sonya, and they both believe themselves to be descendants of Ivan the Terrible. The group splits when Richie and Anna decide to chase after Alex, while Boris and Dmitry prefer to rig the room with various traps they have constructed and wait for Alex to come to them.
Richie and Anna manage to drive off Alex, though Richie is wounded and Anna loses part of her ear. Instead Alex confronts Boris and Dmitry, and starts chasing them through the building when their traps fail to deploy. Dmitry gets caught in his own snare, making him an easy target for Alex, while Sonya dupes Boris into deploying a malfunctioning trap, cutting his hand off. Boris cauterizes his arm but is also injected with a serum that restricts facial movement.
Alex drags Peter's body into his lair for a sacrifice. In doing so, he finds the cross and takes it for himself. Richie and Anna then unsuccessfully search Peter for the cross, only to discover that Peter miraculously survived the shooting. Alex is then attacked from three sides by Peter, Richie and an increasingly incoherent Boris. Though Alex easily kills Peter, Richie manages to impale him on his disco spikes, recovers the cross, then sets him on fire. As they are fleeing the building, Richie is strangled by Sonya, but Anna saves him by stabbing Sonya with her nail file. Security is alerted by Alex's body falling onto the floor below, allowing Richie and Anna to escape unencumbered.
Outside, they are met by Groznyi, who pays Richie handsomely for his work. Richie is enraged, having discovered that Grozniy is the brother of Sonya and Alex, and tells him that he will never work for him again; Grozniy replies that Richie will be back. Richie and Anna then depart for Los Angeles.

Tags: comedy, violence

Review:
Once established, this cheaply made movie was quite simply a laugh riot for those who have a morbid sense of humor and enjoy creative torture methods.The description in the film fest magazine really says it all: "And you thought you were unlucky?
- During a heist in Russia, a professional thief (Dorff) finds himself dealing with twin serial killers, insane hostages, double-crossing psycho Russian hard-men and the real possibility of a horrible death." By the end, the audience was laughing so hard we had tears in our eyes.
As soon as the audience got into the movie, and got over an initial impression of crappiness (like a very rudimentary set, bad editing with scenes that were often just a bit too long and actors that were, with the exception of Stephen Dorff, sub par), it became clear to them that the movie is intended as a comedy and delivered funny and unexpected scenes one after another.
Wow this one really caught me by surprise wasn't expecting much from it and it has turned out to be one of the gems of the year in my eyes what starts out as an average crime comedy thriller and turns into a comedy horror Splatter fest it's genius and by far the best thing stephen dorf's been involved with in years.For those of you not familiar with this stephen dorf plays a guy who owes a Russian mobster big time and keeps cocking up heists and is given one more chance to steal a cross in Russia with 2 even more bumbling sidekicks which leads to a hostage situation from there onwards it unravels into a weird blend of of hostage movie / slasher flick with serial killers death traps and lunatic hostages..
The overdone Russian accent without anybody ever speaking Russian through the whole movie, the weird characters and the twisted story add up nicely to a movie about one day in the life of one guy that just went completely wrong in every way you could imagine.
I watched this movie last night not knowing what to expect and have to say this was one of the funniest slasher movies I have seen for a long time.
Apart from the main character, who is an American, it is really funny to see all the other actors in this film speak English with this over- exaggerated Russian accent, hence the name of the movie - 'Botched', taken from the English word 'butched'.Definitely is not one of the greatest movies ever.
But absolutely hilarious if you just sit back, do not take it for a serious movie, but rather enjoy the entertaining comedy of it.
While escaping from a successful heist of diamonds in an auction house for the Russian mobster lord Mr. Groznyi (Sean Pertwee), the driver of the runaway car crashes a wall and only the thief Ritchie Donovan (Stephen Dorff) survives.
They negotiate with the police, but when they release the first hostage in good faith, they discover that their negotiator is not from the police but an evil serial-killer, beginning their night of terror trapped on the floor.The gore "Botched" is an entertaining and forgettable dark comedy.
the acting wasn't great, but not that bad, either, some of the actors are familiar from movies like blade, layer cake or dog soldiers.
i'm pretty sure the b movie feeling is fully intended, for there are enough people that actually cherish this kind of movie.altogether, if you don't mind simple down-to-earth entertainment with a little gore once in a while, you might risk watching the movie.
The odd thing is, the weirder, gorier and more ridiculous things get, the funnier and more enjoyable it becomes as well.This is not a dumb film and there is a consistent and thought out story that appears on film, despite the odd silly "rubber chicken" prop moment.I didn't have any qualms about the acting as the cast did a fantastic job staying in (dodgy Russian) character.Whilst Brad does a good job keeping the audiences sympathy, supported ably by the very foxy Jamie Murray, a horror movie is only as good as its villains.
Whereas part of the movie takes place in Russia, all the "Russian" actors speak in hilariously bad, over-the-top parodies of Russian accents.
Just be warned: it's a bit low budget, and if the thought of Satanic serial killers with really bad Russian accents doesn't make you giggle, you'll probably find this movie insultingly stupid..
I thought this movie would be a Thriller/ Gangster flick , it started off that way and i though seems OK.
The movie then started to change, Steven Doriff seemed serious ,as everyone did , then the humour came in , and once the film moves to Russia anything goes , and it does .
His face is a character-study in "Jesus-WTF is going on here?" And that mein makes him the Straight-up Man for the entire Horror Hoot.This movie isn't just Funny.
It was the sort of funny that always made your mother wake up and order you to turn the TV Off because you were laughing so hard.This movie is GREAT with friends and Beer & Wine.
This was horrific, i cannot actually believe i managed the whole movie.Where do i start on this tale of woe, the film basically centres around a "Botched" Robbery in a hotel and the cast arrive at a floor that nobody knows about which has a killer running around murdering all and sundry.The running around is by far the worst i have encountered.
Rocky because Rocky sounded more Russian than this guy.The Russian accents were laughable, the only thing the film lacked here was each cast member playing a Russian to have a bottle of vodka and one of those woolly hats all KGB agents have in classic soviet union movies.This film has got to be the worst film i have seen in years.
Bad Russian accents done by a mostly z-list British cast (nice to see the girl from the Commitments working again) aside, to say that this is not a good film is an understatement that dwarfs all other understatements you have ever heard about movies.
Is this a comedy, a thriller or a horror movie.
Announced as humorous splatter movie on the DVD cover this sounded like a good film to view on a Friday evening.The first minutes were quite fun but from there on it went downhill.
yeah, there is gore, blood, intestines and so on (which I like) but this movie is all in all more or less pretty crappy...
Thought at least Stephen Dorff would be good, cause I like him (sometimes) but nothing positive to say here neither...Its not funny enough for a stupid movie and its not violent enough for a gore movie..
Well, I happened to like these two aforementioned movies quite a bit and yet I hugely regret having spent money and wasted precious time on "Botched".
You'll find the odd drama which sways heavily into comedy and then back again, leaving the viewers wondering what they're actually watching.'Botched' is indeed a 'multi-genre' film, however, it's dabblings in various genres does appear intentional.
But, if you're generally into heads being severed and bodies being hung up and sliced at the waist (while at the same time trying not to laugh at the cheesiness of it all) you should be pleasantly surprised.Special mention to Geoff Bell who steals ever scene in his 'alpha male' persona..
Clearly filmed on a micro-budget, this horror-comedy manages to deliver an entertaining story by never taking itself seriously for one moment.
I didn't know a thing about this movie, and was expecting a heist movie so you can imagine my surprise when, twenty minutes in, one of the hostages taken by hapless jewel thieves Ritchie (stephen Dorff), Peter (Jamie Foreman) and Yuri (Russell Smith) is unexpectedly decapitated by a pair of giant shears.
The story gets more hectic and bizarre from this moment on, and while some of the intended laughs fall wide of the mark, the frantic pace means there's little time for reflection over those misfires.For my money, Jamie Foreman - who has been singled out by some reviewers as giving a bad performance - enlivens the film with his deliberately over the top performance as Peter, the violent psychopathic Russian gangster, and it's a shame that he's missing for a large chunk of the action.
The film grows dafter as it builds to an ultra-violent conclusion, but that is always its intention, and if you leave the viewing grumbling about it maybe you were in the wrong frame of mind when you started watching it?.
The film also drags on in most areas and the gore was also very over the top however it have a few nice moments in it with a few good gags as well apart from that Stephen Dorff and Jaime Murraey were good and she did sound sexy with the her Russian accent and a few other members of the cast were also good trying to be serious in a film that was not serious at all.
Bad Russian accents, low budget, and over the top but this is a true B movie horror gem.
The characters are great and where with other horror/gore films, you'd want to strangle them at some point for their general stupidity..
It's one I'll be recommending to my film Buff mates as a good movie!.
The title of this film presumably refers to the heist that goes disastrously wrong when professional thief Ritchie (Stephen Dorff) and his Russian cohorts run into some seriously messed-up characters, but it could just as easily be describing the manner in which every almost every aspect of this film has been handled.
From the abysmal acting, to the dreadful dialogue, to the 'stylish' direction, ill-advised editing (including speeded-up Benny Hill style action), and pathetic attempts at off-beat humour, it is all seriously botched!Clearly, director Kit Ryan's intention was to create a totally bonkers cult comedy/horror that would become a midnight movie favourite amongst fans of insane cinema; his script, however, is woefully free of either laughs or scares, the zaniness feels incredibly forced, and virtually everyone on-screen gives a thoroughly cringe-worthy performance (with some of the worst Russian accents you're ever likely to hear!).Admittedly, the film does deliver quite a bit of fun gore (a bloody decapitation, a man cut in half, lots of mutilated bodies and assorted internal organs), and actress Jaime Murray is rather lovely to look at, but none of this changes the fact that Botched is a thoroughly inept and irksome mess—an embarrassment for all involved..
"Botched" is a high energy, fast moving crime comedy with horror movie style gore.
The gore and makeup effects are excellent and the music by Tom Green has a great funky feel to it.Well worth watching for fans of black comedy.Eight out of 10..
Attempting to steal a valuable treasure, a group of thieves and their hostages find the building controlled by a psychotic killer and his sister who kill intruders in the area and try to get away with their stolen goods before they're all killed.A pretty strange horror-comedy, mostly in the fact that like so many of these kinds of films, the horror angle here is awesome yet the comedy aspect fails lamely, due to the common factors of either the joke not being funny or being weird doesn't make it funny.
Scenes like the killer rolling around the corridors on roller skates to disco music playing on the speakers as a victim remains stuck through a trap in the area, using ballet moves to chase after a fleeing victim or arguing with the inside man about the job he's doing are just some of the different ways in which that's obvious, but as mentioned, the horror angle here is awesome with outrageously bloody kills, a mostly-imposing killer and some pretty neat twists later on.
yeah well there was a lot of blood and many dead people, but when i watch a splatter/horror movie i don't wanna hear music like a Russian version of benny hill in chasing scenes.
I can imagine if i would have looked up the film online and read about it first or watched a review i would not have enjoyed it as much.I wonder why one does not view movies this way every time completely blind.
But for some reason one always have to read or hear a opinion about the film before deciding to watch it.This time when i watched it blind it was one of the greatest movie experiences i ever had..
However things again go wrong & Ritchie finds himself trapped on a skyscraper floor with two of Groznyl's men & a bunch of hostages as he tries to figure out what to do in order to get out of the building alive & without being arrested but there is someone else there too, a psycho killer who starts to kill everyone off...This German, Irish, British & American co-production was directed by Kit Ryan & seems to be one of those films that divides opinion, some seem to love it's bizarre sense of humour & madcap plot while other's like me think it's a complete mess that fails at everything it sets out to do.
The whole film is terrible, the plot is just rubbish, the gore is minimal & the so-called comedy is just awful.
The gore isn't even all that, someones head if chopped off, there's spikes through feet, a fridge of guts, dead bodies hanging up, a chopped off hand gag & a decent amount of fake blood but Botched never really goes for it in either the horror or gore department.Apparently shot in Ireland & in Russia the film looks nice enough with good production values.
A special mention goes to Jaime Foreman who has to have put in the worst single performance in a film I have seen in a long time.Botched is what it says it is, a totally botched attempt at a modern madcap horror crime gangster comedy that was terrible on all counts.
I'm now going to slap'' that line made me laugh and it would have been enough to make me like the movie but they added some more fun and unexpected stuff...
Another title could be FUBAR, If by chance you do not know what this means, ask an older person.Stephen Dorff is the star & the only recognizable actor, he does quite well, The entire cast does well,in fact with this funny material,It is not a great film by any means,its not supposed to be.
A robbery gone wrong leads to the robber having to do a "final" job to pay-off a long standing family debt to a Russian Mobster from a building in Moscow.The robbery is bungled and the 3 robbers are forced to take hostages but we soon find the floor they've taken refuge on isn't quite all it seems.The film is gory, violent and darkly funny.
I don't know why but I quite like Mr Dorff as an actor but man does he get into some crummy films.
It may well have had some good ideas in it but they were all messed up in delivery or their effect watered down by chunks of really bad story that preceded it.Jaime Murray was OK too, she looked good and kept her mouth shut most of the time so you couldn't blame her for the lame dialog or story.This looked and felt like the sort of home movie you'd do if you and a bunch of friends decided to make a film and make it up as you went along.
Stephen Dorff plays a thief who is hired by Russian gangster Sean Pertwee to steal a cross that belonged to Ivan the Terrible.
The character of Boris was the best thing about the film and was much deserving of his own movie.
I can't really recommend this movie, because I've seen funnier horror/comedies, but it was an entertaining fluff piece (thanks mainly to Boris again).
Ritchie (Stephen Dorff of Feardotcom, and Alone in the Dark shame) stars in this dreary unfunny ;horror-comedy as Richie, a professional thief who can't seem to catch a break and is trapped on the 13th floor during a botched heist of a jeweled cross in Russia.
He and his thieving co-horts must survive the serial killer that lies in waiting as the spit hits the fan all around them.Horror-comedies are notoriously hard to pull off, if one errs to either side the whole film falls like a deck of cards.
That will explain how bonkers this movie real is!This movie was a lot fun to watch, there are some really funny moment (Including giants rats scenes, and some what gory deaths which are really funny as well.There are few twist and Turns in this movie , which worked really well , acting from the whole cast was outstanding, which was really surprisingly for movie like this Really good 7 out of 10.
But because the opening offers the possibility to be so much more than that, you can't help but be a little more disappointed when it doesn't.Ritchie (Stephen Dorff) is an American thief with a debt to pay to a Russian gangster (Sean Pertwee).
It not only doesn't let on you're watching a horror film right away, it's thoroughly convincing as the opening to a completely different sort of story.
Well, played for the sort of laughs you get in a horror comedy.
It's like he's in a different movie, which isn't a good thing when you're talking about the main character.Probably the best thing about Botched is Jaime Foreman as Peter, one of the Russian thugs teamed up with Ritchie.
Probably the worst thing about Botched is Geoff Bell as Boris, a security guard character that these filmmakers obviously thought highly of since they give him a lot of screen time.
If you're a horror comedy fan, you might like it.