asginn I would put this in the top 10 worst movies I have ever seen. But actually, I can't really think of a worst movie, so maybe this one is The One. When I wasn't falling asleep with boredom, I was cringing at the bad acting and absurd script that reads as if it was poorly translated from a foreign language. There are the absurdly slow fight scenes when, for example, a cop mysteriously just drops his gun and allows himself to be strangled. Then there is the lame attempt at irony, when the crazy guy says to the main character "You're insane." Like a slowly unfolding car accident, I couldn't look away. Now I am left with a feeling of shame and emptiness for the 2 hours of my life that I wasted--precious time that I could have used for something more productive, like hitting my fingers with a hammer, or holding a penny on the wall with my nose.Even Judd Nelson's acting was bad.

sth_Weird what can I say? If it wasn't for Judd Nelson I wouldn't even have finished watching this movie. But he's just as brilliant in his role as always. It's not that I'm not used to him being the only positive thing about a movie, he's done a lot of poor ones. But this one beats them all, even though I think the story itself wasn't that bad. It was just poorly done. There's a big psycho in a closed hospital for retarded people managing to escape his cell, and kills everybody who dares trying to stop him from leaving, and he's intelligent enough to stop help from the outside getting in. So the only two people left are a female psychologist and the janitor, who is retarded himself. At the beginning they are trying to hunt the psycho down, but soon they are the ones who are hunted by him. Unfortunately, the hunt takes place in slow motion. It does start to get scary sometimes, but you get bored because it takes so long until something happens (if something happens). Appearantly they went out of ideas for more scary things to happen. In the end Quitz (the janitor) dies saving the psychologist, because he swallows the key the psycho is after, which of course he gets back (urgh...but you don't see how he does that), so there's not even a real happy ending. The whole movie is too dark (and I don't mean the atmosphere, the pictures are dark, sometimes you have to concentrate to see what's happening), and even though I never expect thrillers to be very realistic, this one is laughable. Judd Nelson once again manages to create a wonderful, believable character on screen, the other actors do their job too, but they couldn't stop me giving the movie a 3/10 (just for their effort, because the movie itself would get 1/10, and only because there's no 0!)

jstuur7147 Okay, I didn't expect much from this movie. No big names, except for Larry Drake (when was the last time he was in something decent?), and Pauline Porizkova (Ric Ocasek's SO). Your typical idiot plot (everybody acts like an idiot otherwise the movie would be over in about 5 minutes), your unstoppable loonie, your designated victims. Refreshing change in that we didn't have to listen to the loonie babble endlessly. However, the big oddity is the implicit message: sane people are stupid, ineffectual, weak, and incompetent. Crazies, on the other hand, are cunning, tough, brutally strong, and endure gunshots with only minor annoyance. This is seen not only in our unstoppable villain, but also in the sympathetic, supportive nutcase who aids our heroine. It is even seen (albeit briefly) in our heroine herself, who has her sanity repeatedly questioned when she starts behaving with some sense of self-preservation. Add in the coffee-swilling, donut scarfing cops and you have 90 minutes of stupidity you won't want to watch sober.

Wizard-8 Well... maybe not exactly, but you can see the DIE HARD influence in this horror flick. It's actually not that bad; low budget, but the production values are really strong. It keeps moving at a good clip as well, and it's never boring. Though I thought it was worth the rental, I did have two problems with it that prevented it from being even better than it was:(1) Some really big plot holes. (SPOILERS) When the killer gets out of the asylum, why doesn't he just hightail it out of the area, since that was his original intent all along? What's the cause of that big explosion in the basement? Why were the cops late in arriving in big force? Why in the beginning of the movie is the killer immediately thrown in an asylum before getting a sanity hearing? (Couldn't the cops hold him in a cell before then?) These are just some of many questions that come up.(2) I don't know if the director was showing "good taste", or if the movie was trimmed before its release, but it seems that many moments when we should be seeing gore happen off-screen or right out of camera range. Why tease the audience this way?