Phonearl
Good start, but then it gets ruined
Supelice
Dreadfully Boring
Senteur
As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.
Scott LeBrun
"Manborg" is a delightfully dopey post-apocalypse flick, played with tongue firmly in cheek. The guys keeping cheesy Bs like these alive are the Canadian collective "Astron-6", who are also responsible for "Father's Day" and "The Editor". In the world of the future, humans have been fighting the armies of Hell for some time, and are losing the war, although some people refuse to give up the fight. Matthew Kennedy plays an unnamed soldier who dies during battle, and is reincarnated as the half-machine "Manborg". He hooks up with three other warriors: feisty Mina (Meredith Sweeney), Australian-accented chatterbox "Justice" (Conor Sweeney), and the truly hilarious # 1 Man (Ludwig Lee / voice of Kyle Hebert).Although it's not meant to be taken seriously, one has to admire some of the actors for playing it straight, which is the right way to play this sort of material in the first place. The whole thing is a marvel of visual design; it often looks like a video game. It's been stylized to a great degree by director / producer / editor / effects artist / actor Steven Kostanski, and does have an agreeable sense of humour. One of the baddies is a goon named The Baron (Jeremy Gillespie), who pines after the adorably cute Mina.There's not a particularly big story to tell here, but that's not necessarily a bad thing; it helps to make the movie clock in at barely over an hour. (On the DVD, a promo for an Astron-6 short called "Bio Cop", and a priceless spoof of those FBI warnings on tapes and discs, helps add to the running time.)The biggest laughs come from Hebert, a riot as the voice of # 1 Man. Adam Brooks (as the primary villain Count Draculon, and the scientist Dr. Scorpius), and Andrea Karr (as a hench woman named Shadow Mega), co-star, and they, like everybody else, play this for everything that it's worth.The ending is rather abrupt, but in a mindless, gory, funny little diversion like this, that's not such a big issue.Filmed in my hometown!Seven out of 10.
robyams
A terribad, fantastic movie. The first 30 seconds clues you in that this is not a Hollywood product and just as I was reaching for the remote to change the stream, something stopped me. I'm not a B movie fan, but the character of and characters in this film are so good/bad I had to keep watching. I was really enjoying it and then the end made me angry but then I realized that was completely irrational. Its a bad movie. Its supposed to have a bad ending. You're a genius Steven Kostanski. You created a masterpiece...
mike-ryan455
How does one say "ridiculously bad" in more ways than one? I can't think of it. I looked at it because it was supposed to be rated 5.5 and my brain was permanently injured from the attempt.If you look at the ratings, most were 10's. Those were obviously from the cast, crew and family of the producers. An almost equal number gave it the honest review of 1. That is how it ended up with a 5.5 rating.It was a train wreck of poorly done green screens, childish dialog, poor audio and fake monster masks. I wouldn't have been impressed if middle school children had come up with this mess. Please do not subject your brain to this unnatural punishment.
magnusman60
It doesn't try to be anything but what it is which is a high cheese fun movie to watch.There no i am a serious actor doing Shakespeare moments where you can see the others actors wincing and thinking pay me so i can get away from this guy.It was friends making a low budget movie that entertaining to watch.Jeremy Gillespie had a surprisingly good sense of comedic timing as the love struck baron.Think low budget,decent affects but not industrially lights and magic and people who enjoy what they are doing.Seriously this is miles ahead of rob zombie's movies and had budgets and big name actors. Sorry Rob but to his credit he has gotten better.
