Spoonixel Amateur movie with Big budget

Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Christophe Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

DigitalRevenantX7 A woman who lost her father years before when he was gunned down in a robbery gone bad, finally tracks down the hood who killed him, only to fall in love with him when he confesses to the crime. After a few days of hanging out together he proposes to her. But his former gang members want to silence the couple & stage a hit where they kill their former friend. The woman is arrested by the police but her lawyer manages to get her released without charge. When he learns that the gang wants to kill her, he takes matters into his own hands.Ulli Lommel is a German-born director who has made quite a formidable reputation as one of the millennium's worst directors. In his heyday he made some interesting films – the 1970s art-house classic The Tenderness of the Wolves about an infamous German serial killer was featured in Time magazine at one point & Lommel's 1980 feature The Boogeyman was his biggest hit. But once the millennium came, Lommel's films became nothing more than cheap hackwork. Which is a shame for what was an interesting talent. Of his post-millennial works, the only good one (that is, the only one that was semi-watchable) was Zodiac Killer, which was disturbing enough to bypass its inherent cheapness.Absolute Evil was one of a number of ultra-cheap serial killer-themed DTV films Lommel made with his independent production company & was one of the last films to feature legendary actor David Carradine before his death. The film is typical of many of Lommel's films around this time period with mediocre plotting, awkward dialogue & acting, some traces of Lommel's infamous 'lather, rinse, repeat' style of storytelling (where he would showcase a killing over & over again with little variation to it) & brutal torture scenes but with no gore.The film has been slammed by almost everybody on the Internet, with attention paid to its flaws. But I have never outrightly hated Lommel's works. Sure, most of his post-millennial works have been frightfully cheap to the point of being overwhelmed by their low budget. Absolute Evil has many of these flaws & is not ever going to be seen as a good film, let alone a minor classic. What it does have is a story of forbidden love between a cheap hood & the daughter of one of his victims, only to find themselves torn apart by the hood's former gang mates. Lommel, for once, makes the film more character driven but he still has a problem with writing dialogue, with many of his characters being unable to talk coherently. Absolute Evil also has a mild brutality with Lommel's staging of a man being tortured by having his head dunked into a full bathtub looking like it was done for real. Christopher Kriesa, an actor who has starred in an awful lot of cheap B-grade action films & thrillers, makes a passable impression here as the lawyer but even he can't make the film work well enough to rate as anything more than disappointingly poor.

tonipain After being caged in a Lionsgate Serial Killer Contract for more than two Years exiled German Indie Cult Director Ulli Lommel is back at his best. At the Berlin film festival he premiered and succeeded with the audience, but , as I experienced at a press screening, led also into a real controversy..Love is not colder than death,, because Death is not cool anymore. Sure Lommels new Flic is a hell of a genre mix of film noir, road movie and western with a lot of violence and torture, sure it's still a Lommel with its unique style somewhere between indie and big screen movie, but he's changing the subject. of a modern thriller. Before there were innocents who became bad, or villains, who couldn't cope with their past. But for the very first time, without playing on one's heart strings. Love and Forgiveness are presented as a solution in this deeply violent story . Maybe this alienates, because viewing habits are going to be mixed up, but you can't cheer Obama and enjoy ego shooters at the same time. Lommels Absolute Evil is more a vision for the next 40 years than a reminiscence to Love is colder than death from 1969. And to all you critics who won't understand now: You buried Fassbinder in a Museum , but you're afraid of Lommel, because he is alive!

Steamroller_Blues Absolute Evil is Carradine's best film since Kill Bill. And that is strange, because Absolute Evil is very much along the lines of Tarentino's narrative. The good becomes the bad and the bad turns good. Evil is a complex force in this fascinating twist of film noir and horror film and suspense thriller. The film itself is a love declaration to the horror genre, and pumps new life in it. And Ulli Lommel, who also wrote and directed, is terrific as the Private Eye that tortures a killer. The film is short and sweet. 80 minutes of inspired suspense, and a total departure from Lommel's previous low-budget true-crime horror flicks.

FassbinderFan85 The film played at Berlinale film festival in Berlin and the premiere was on February 8th. I got the ticket to the premiere the day before and later I heard that the screening was sold out!It's a nice movie about love, hate, forgiveness and murder. The main roles are played by new talents like Carolyn Neff and Rusty Joiner, but there is also 'veteran actors' like Ulli Lommel, Chris Kriesa and David Carradine. I think Lommel makes his best performance in years plus Kriesa and Carradine were great choices to their roles such as Neff and Joiner.I hope it will be released on DVD soon, so I can buy it!