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Also
known as the movie that should not have been made, based on
the comic stories that should not have been written. (And
please note this is a spoof review)
Gun Shark is the movie adaptation of the 'Sinister Dexter'
comic stories from the 2000AD comic. The original comic stories
were written as a lightweight take on the 'Pulp Fiction' style
contract killers and evolved way beyond their entertainment
value by trying to add something vaguely resembling a plot
and moral ethos.
With such little background to work with the movie comes out
as just enough gun slinging buddy movie tucked in alongside
all the other gun slinging buddy movies that come out each
and every year.
The plot, if you can call it that, involves the two lead characters,
Sinister and Dexter shooting people for money, driving around
the sprawling future European city of Downlode, getting set
up by their crimelord bosses, shooting some people for money,
getting chased by the police, shooting some people, uncovering
their crimelord bosses nasty plans, shooting some crimelord
people and driving off making bad puns.
A side romance between Dexter and one of the female cops looks
forced even though it was in the original stories and the
strange decision to use 'non offensive' swear words like 'Funt'
does not seem to work alongside the masses of bloodletting
and gunshot wounds the movie contains.
What are they trying to say anyway? That you may splatter
someone's guts over the wall as long as you are polite about
it?
Casting was a strange choice. Despite the fact the stories
are set in Europe and that one of the main character is Hispanic
there is a lot of American actors in the movie, something
that ends up reinforcing the fact that this is just another
buddy movie instead of giving it the unique feel the movie
should have had.
In the end however you just don't care. The villain, despite
the scripts best efforts, comes across as much more likeable
then either of the heroes. The moral subplot that the gun
sharks of Downlode are the good guys that keep the city safe
from the villains the cops can't touch falls flat after a
while and the silly pun names of every character becomes annoying.
In short, nothing that you haven't seen before, watch Lethal
Weapon 8 instead.
MudCrab
Poster Kindly provided by Adrian
Bamforth
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