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Adrenalin: Fear The Rush?
What a terrible name! You have to wonder about
anyone who would make a film and want to call
it that. Especially since the title implies some
excitement, which is wholly inaccurate. No, this
movie needs to be rechristened, and with my love
of accurate titles, I've decided it should
be Viewer: Fear The Boredom.
Viewer: Fear The Boredom is
set way in the future, in post-apocalyptic 2007.
To be fair, the film was made in 1995, but the
'near future' it was set in back then
is now only a few months away. In the movie, some
mutant guy who looks like a Wrong Turn
reject and suffers from a deadly, soon to be contagious,
infection, begins killing people. The rest of
the movie is about police officers Christopher
Lambert and Natasha Henstridge, along with a few
other lesser-known thespians, chasing after the
killer.
The movie looks slick enough, and probably could've
been a well-made thriller, but it's just uninteresting.
Insipid dialogue, banal 'action,'
and a sappy forced ending make this the worst
Lambert/Henstridge mutant chasing movie ever.
Heavily padded at 73 minutes long (a run time
that include five minutes of credits), Viewer:
Fear The Boredom is not one to get, or
even touch, if you see it on a rental shelf. |
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| Video |
| The movie is presented in a mostly clear print,
with only a few specks present. The film's title
card starts at 2.35:1, then goes full frame for
the feature, and ends with the credits presented
at 2.35:1. That's good, because the most important
part of any movie to see in the correct aspect ratio
is the end credits. The non-credit portion of the
film suffers one of the worst pan and scan jobs
I've ever seen, giving the movie a VERY cramped
look. I could honestly understand if people got
nauseous during the handheld segments due to the
super tight framing. I began to wonder if this movie
was like Halloween, and really
needed to be seen in its original aspect ratio to
be appreciated. But then I remembered that when
Leon was still just The
Professional, it also had a terrible pan
and scan job for the home video market, and I could
still tell it was a good movie. |
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| Audio |
| The audio is in two-channel stereo. The dialogue
is often too quiet. In fact, during the initial
voice over, I had a LOT of trouble hearing what
was being said. The score is overpowering and excessive,
which also didn't help when trying to decipher
dialogue. |
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| Extra Features |
| Do English subtitles for the hearing impaired
count as an extra? |
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| The Verdict |
| This movie is great if you want to see Lambert
keep getting shot for being foolish, or love seeing
actors trying to remember whether to use the term
'torch' or 'flashlight.'
Even if you really like this movie, which means
there's really something wrong with you, this
release isn't worth owning due to the egregious
pan and scan job. |
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