Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

merklekranz The script of a soldier coming back from the dead to wreck havoc on unpatriotic citizens, seems like fertile ground for "black comedy". There are some fine character actors, Bo Hopkins plays a scuzzy Army bereavement officer, and Isaac Hayes is a wounded member of Uncle Sam's combat unit, but they are more or less wasted. The script seems like it didn't move much beyond the initial idea, and is badly underdeveloped. If it's a slasher, there is very little tension. If it's a comedy, where are the laughs? For "black comedy" to succeed, it must be outrageous, which the film is, but it also cannot be mean spirited, and "Uncle Sam" clearly is mean spirited, and somewhat meaningless to boot. Sure, the Uncle Sam on stilts peeper is fun to look at, but a few good scenes cannot save this from being a disappointment. - MERK

marymorrissey some really unappealing actor/character combos in this movie (like the kid) and much too time spent with them. Glacial pace. I'm not really a gore hound but it might have been more graphic too for the however much of it I watched, even if I did turn it off after the first compound fracture (not much of a gore hound at all!).Even images I liked - another uncle same on extra long stilts - just went on too long. Evidently they only had 45 min worth of story.They were showing this at the Cinefamily on July 4th in LA and I took that as a recommendation to check out the trailer which was fun. Kind of like "Being Alive" the actual movie is not worth the time.

Beastie-Boy-No-1 So me and my Buddy's everyday, go too a local video store and deliberately rent terrible looking horror movies, usually ones from the 80's, rarely ever the 90's, especially 97. So yesterday Uncle Sam was on the list, being intrigued by it's creative cover on the VHS we decided to get Uncle Sam and too are surprise we didn't rent a terrible unwatchable movie, Uncle Sam's plot was good, the acting was not bad at all, but that Jody girl/boy really pisses me off. The main reason why I am commenting on this movie and this being the first, was because of the kills. Too me and my buddy's they were plain old rough and done extremely well, like when Uncle Sam pulls that guy all the way up the flag pole with the rope around his neck, that disturbed me, clearly seeing him making excruciating facial expressions and writhing in pain and squirming, and once at the top his neck breaks, that was done really really well, and the scene where that kid is in Sam's grave and Sam burries him alive, that was not cool man, thinking of the situation he was in, broken leg, isolated....6 feet deep. Rough man, very rough, mind you there were a lot of goofs in this movie but all and all it was a good laugh, and a good time. So get really stoned like we did kiddies, and this movie is a riot.

The_Void Uncle Sam represents the only non-Maniac Cop collaboration between Larry Cohen and William Lustig, which is a shame. Aside from just making a derivative psycho killer film, it seems obvious that writer Larry Cohen wanted Uncle Sam to have some brains too, which is shown by the attempt to inject a message into the proceedings. Larry Cohen is definitely a huge talent when it comes to entertaining horror movies - films like The Stuff, It's Alive and, of course, Maniac Cop are camp classics if you ask me; but he really should stick to entertainment, as this screenplay is a mess and the 'message' is so jumbled up that I have little idea what exactly it's preaching. The plot follows a young boy who believes that his uncle, who is coincidentally called Sam, is a hero. Uncle Sam was a patriotic, lunatic soldier killed by friendly fire whilst fighting for his country. His body is brought to his sister's place, coincidentally around the time of the Fourth of July celebrations. It's not long before his fellow Americans are abusing their privileges, and Uncle Sam decides to get up and do something about it.It's hard to take a movie about a war veteran zombie seriously, and this is something that Cohen should have taken into account when putting pen to paper. The clear message on show is that war is bad, and there appears to be a backhanded comment about the way America handles people who don't submit to their 'way of life'. However, American politicians can rest easy because the central figure here is murdering people pretty much at random; which saps any weight out of the theme. In my opinion, Cohen should have decided what it is he wanted to write; a slasher, or a film with substance. However, even as a horror film, Uncle Sam falls short. We've got some nice gore scenes on display, but much of the running time is spent on building up the plot with the kid and his admiration for Uncle Sam, and to say the least; it isn't very interesting. The film is very slow to start, with practically nothing happening in the first half of the film. Good sequences are few and far between, but I've got to say I liked the one that saw a stilt-wearing pervert prying into a girl's bedroom and the one that saw someone falling down a hill in a sack race. Neither of those grab you? This film won't either. Uncle Sam fails on every level.