Everyone involved in the production of this movie should be banned from Hollywood for life!
Cross: Rise of the Villains
2019
Action / Sci-Fi
Cross: Rise of the Villains
2019
Action / Sci-Fi
Plot summary
Armed with an explosive powerful ancient cross amulet, Callan (Brian Austin Green) is back with his extraordinary team of weapons experts to defend Los Angeles from its biggest threat yet-super villains Muerte (Danny Trejo) and Drago (Manu Intiraymi). Callan will have to join forces with his once mortal enemy, Gunnar (Vinnie Jones),to try to save the city. Tom Sizemore returns as Detective Nitti and Lou Ferrigno, DB Sweeney, Jeremy London and Eric Roberts star as The Contractors.
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How does something this bad even get made?
THIRD TIME IS NOT A CHARM
I watched this film trying to remember if I'd seen the first two in the series. I know I saw one but it left such an impression on me that I forgot it within minutes of the end credits. If I hadn't written about this one soon after watching the odds of that happening twice would be good. Chances are within a week I'll have forgotten this one too.
If you haven't seen any of the films Brian Austin Green of BEVERLY HILLS 90120 fame stars as Callan, a futuristic hero who gains power from an ancient Celtic Cross who saves the planet from world dominating bad guys with the help of his equally heroic teammates. Having done so in the first film and then repeated the same in the second, we now have a third film.
As a group of game players gathers behind the locked doors of a comic book shop, they play a game that finds them helping Cross and his team. This makes for a strange set of circumstances as you're never quite sure if the game is a game or reality. By the end of the film it gets even more confusing as game members are pulled into the comic universe to help save the world but left with a cliffhanger ending.
This time around Cross and his team are pitted against super villains Muerte (Danny Trejo) and Drago (Manu Intiraymi). In their secret hideout Muerte plans on robbing Cross of his powers while elevating Drago with a cross of his own. So dire are the consequences that Cross must resort to asking for aid from previous villain Gunnar (Vinnie Jones).
I honestly can't write a whole lot more about this film. Made for the direct-to-disc market it stinks even for that group. The effects are some of the worst you will ever find and include things like the flashes seen from every gun that it fired in the film. How can you make a movie without a big enough budget for blanks? Explosions are the same with debris and launch pads used for the stunt people as they fly in the air surrounded by completely fake looking CGI explosions.
The acting is...well...it's...terrible. I love Danny Trejo and he can even make commercials where he does better than this. To say his part is phoned in is an understatement. The odds are he was paid great money to sit on a chair on one set looking at a laptop while laughing maniacally. That's about all his character is required to do here.
At 100 minutes this movie is 100 minutes too long. To think that it sets it up for a part 4 is just mind numbing. It makes you wonder how movies like this get made while knowing there are far better pictures in development hell.
I'm guessing they were hoping to tap into the super-hero market that is out there but this one makes those early Marvel films that people joke about look like they were Oscar contenders.
Too much talking at the middle of the film, but overall the action suprisingly good and funny! Should watch it!
This film start with the introduction of the amulets, the superheroes and the supervillains scene! As turnout, this film is about a bunch of superheroes lead by "Callan" need to save L.A. from the threat of a plutonium bomb armed by two supervillains(Muerte and Drago)! The action in the film quite intense, funny and bloody violence! Bloody violence scene, such as, the superheroes shooting at the villains' head and body scene! Funny action scene, such as, Blackfire throwing grenade at the supervillains scene, and a bunch of female warriors lead by Sloane take down the supervillains by kicking their private part with martial art style! The superheroes can use their power to explode the enemy also quite mind-blowing! Every screen times with Blackfire in it also significantly laughable! Such as, when disarm a bomb, he take out the burger inside his pocket and eat it! At the end, Drago kill Callan's girlfriend(Sloane)! Callan gather his old crew and his enemy "Gunnar" to kill Drago! Callan eventually kill Drago by the power of himself and enhance by the Guardians! He also kill Gunnar! Muerte plotting his next sinister plan! Lucia and War rendezvous with the Guardians! Still have the scene of the next chapter's story after the ending! That's it! A quite entertaining action movie!