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David "English is my second language" Evans (Mohammed Bardi) is an ex-cop and out of work detective who struggles with vices. When a couple of nurses from the Kingdom Psychotic Hospital are murdered, he is hired to investigate by his ex-girlfriend Maria (Amiée Conn). We see the killings. It is a deformed blue skinned man who looks like "he who which we do not speak." There are no suspects, just a new electronic device to treat patients. The victims have Arabic writing on them, famous quotes about revenge. This was low budget all around. The script was terribly boring. The acting wasn't there. Mohammed Bardi has no business around a camera. The sound was uneven. Worth a punch on the hacker's card. Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.

From the godawful "acting (that's stretching it ...)" to the incredibly craptastic special effects this is one of those criminally bad movies. Reminds me of the clueless characters in Waiting for Guffman except they aren't funny, just awful actors. The story is too dull to bother describing. Movie making at its worst.

So this film is definitely not a big budget masterpiece and it cannot compare or be listed at the same league as the super buget films out there but it certainly has some redeeming qualities. The plot is nothing special but still engaging, the acting was pretty good from Arthur Roberts who plays the Psychiatrist. The lead actors were both decent for first time comers and with experience and training they might grow into something big. Cinematography was excellent, however, the biggest probelm with the film is the editing which seems rushed, both the scene editing and sound editing fail miserably here. Some of the suspenseful scenes seemed rushed and so fails to build up tension. The sound editing was also awful, espcially during some of the action more tense parts you feel there is lack of loud sound effects that makes the scene powerful. Generally a decent effort, that could have been better perhaps if it were put in more professional hands and proper editing. Worth a watch at least to support independent films to make better films for sure.

Well that was a waste of 69 minutes! The lead protagonist couldn't act if his life depended on it. He was so wooden I'm surprised he didn't give himself splinters every time he opened his mouth to give a tedious and lengthy line. The film was really bad. I was wondering why scenes were so long and filled with absolutely meaningless dialogue then realised it's because talking is a lot cheaper than doing anything. Basically this movie was written on the back of a stamp with no budget so it had to be filled with mundane, irrelevant and poorly executed dialogue to pad it out by about 90%. Examples of this were excessively protracted scenes where the lead actor was asking a series of questions in his role as a private detective. Not only were they delivered flat as if he was reading cold off a script he'd never seen before but the questions went on and on obviously to fill time on an already short running movie.Such was the length of such drivel that one actor in particular had issues with her lines. Her dialogue was peppered with points where she stumbled over them which was most bizarre. They also couldn't afford proper microphones so sound levels were all over the place and even in the same scenes, actors had completely diverse levels so either booming or quiet. The whole film was just a waste of time and effort. I'm sure the production team slapped each other on the back to congratulate themselves on reaching past the hour mark for material to piece together to make this film but boy was it dull and 3rd rate. The problem is that I've seen low budget movies and if you have the right story and cast you can work magic. Unfortunately they didn't have any of that here. It was a movie borne out of someone's ego that they thought they were special and could create some type of masterpiece. I hate to tell you but you suck as a director, the story sucks, the script and actors certainly suck and everything about this stinker does also.

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