Huievest
Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.
Mathilde the Guild
Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.
Quiet Muffin
This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.
edhahn
B videos can be so annoying to watch. A pretty good idea ruined by some set of fools who want to add revolting sexual scenes, either to try to get an audience or satisfy their own disordered desires. This is such a a piece of trash. If there was censorship, this would not be here to be reviewed. Every form of the popular gender-identity disorders is in this, smeared together with a potentially interesting time-travel video, ruining it. I gave it one star, because the site doesn't have negative stars. Making a video like this should carry a mandatory life sentence, with mandatory psychiatric interventions. Researchers should be exempt from using ethical standards when trying to fathom the pitiful, perverted a$$holes who made this.
bigdave11
I've never given such a low rating for a movie before as I always try to be positive in my reviews, but having just watched 'Event 16' on DVD I'm astonished that anything as bad as this was ever released at all. The plot summary sounded promising- a time travelling serial killer (echoes of Nicholas Meyer's excellent 'Time After Time' which the plot steals from) .The FX are quite reasonable for an obviously low-budget movie, but that's as far as the plus points go. The acting is completely one dimensional and the bad guys behave like second rate pantomime villains just waiting for an audience of children to boo them.The dialogue is cringingly dire and even the actors look embarrassed at some of the truly awful dialogue they are asked to speak.Product placement was the most obvious of any movie I've ever seen. You didn't need to read the credits to know that Misubishi was the main sponsor. The camera zoomed in on the company logo in almost the first frame and all the vehicles driven by the the main characters were of course all Mitsubishi!This was the first time I had had seen a movie made and produced in New Zealand. I hope there's better to come!
Monkey One
I saw the "World Premiere" at the NZFF too! Event 16 is Pearson's first feature film. It is a low, low-budget sci-fi. This was made on a shoe string with only an insane imagination, devoted friends, cast and crew that were willing to help out. Event 16 should be seen as an example that if you want to make a movie and know how - where there is is a will there is a way.I found the plot a bit complicated but I did enjoy trying to piece together the clues. It held my attention the whole way through. I thought the rain falling and not wetting the car was funny and added to the charm... a director's greatness is not always evident in her/his early films - James Cameron's directorial debut, 'Piranha II: The Spawning', However when you look closely, examine just what Pearson could do with no money and minimal crew; you begin to realize that a true talented filmmaker is at work here.I think that it will become a cult classic. Event 16 works for me because I admire the way at which it was made and unlike most low budget features this is one that I would definitely like to see again.
Shuggy
As a person who likes a linear narrative, with clear signals as to who the characters are, I struggled to follow this film. We jump back and forth in time (that was fairly clear, though not enough was done with makeup to age the characters who went in the usual direction at the usual speed), and most of the characters take over each other's bodies at some point or another.At the second Wellington screening (which I saw yesterday) the director said it was aimed at the Playstation generation, who are used to characters with multiple incarnations. I hope someone who is good at that will explain the narrative to me.I found the characters fairly engaging, though the two (three?) who seemed to be officials in charge of preventing temporal paradoxes or some such were never quite explained, and even a psychopathic killer needs *some* motivation. The central relationship (geek and girlfriend) was entertainingly unstable.This movie will look OK on TV. On the big screen you could sometimes see the pixels. The sound was adequate, except that sometimes the synching was enough off that I wondered if it was deliberate, to create a "not really him speaking" effect.As a Wellingtonian, I enjoyed the images of Wellington in 1893, the present, and the 2020s, and the surreal treatment of most cityscapes.I'd call this a "Bad Taste" for the 200Xs. It's got the same clunky New Zealand makeshiftness (number 8 wire, we call it), the same homespun characters moving in a world beyond their control.I predict people will rent this movie more than once or buy it (on DVD in October) to try to figure it out, and go on to watch it cultishly, like "Bad Taste".Pearson said this movie was effects-driven (as was BT) and his next movie will be more character- and story-driven. I look forward to that, and then to someone giving him some money to make his LOTR, King Kong, etc.
