Invincible | | Cast : | Billy Zane | | Director : | Jefery Levy | | Studio : | Buena Vista Home Vid | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Dolby | | Released Date : | November 18, 2001 | | DVD Released Date : | August 02, 2005 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), English (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | NR (Not Rated) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | February 25, 2005 | | Summary | Vanquished | Content
 | I love corny action movies. They're a guilty pleasure of mine. This, however, went beyond bad. I have never seen a worse movie. Normally, in a good action flick, the dialogue is bad, the plot is lacking, but the action is amazing. In this movie, the dialogue was so bad that my friend and I were gaping at each other in astonishment, the plot was ludicrous and the action was pathetic.
Let's start with the dialogue. Os (Billy Zane) kept waxing poetic, spouting utter nonesense for hours. It was supposed to sound deep. It sounded contrived and fake. There was no emotion to back up his words. What emotion any character tried to show us seemed out of place, fake and there was rarely reasons that they felt anything. Os once is crying with joy. We have no idea why, but it happens.
The plot is very typical. I must admit, I was not expecting wonders here and I was not surprised. It's the same old shtick about how four people must band together to save the world with their magic powers from big bad guys with nefarious evil magic. In itself, this lack of originality wouldn't matter if the acting, dialogue and action were better.
I was really, really disappointed when it came to the action scenes. There was way too much slow motion. When used sparingly and artfully, slow motion can be beautiful. When half the movie is like this, you just want to fastforward through the whole thing. When it wasn't slow mo, it was a strobe effect where everything was cutting and restarting. It was awful and confusing. It also didn't let us see the actor's movement. The moves that we did see were of poor quality and irrealistic.
Other things I didn't like were the very predictable ending and the terrible wig that Billy Zane is wearing in the beginning. It was more frightening than the bad guys. Actually, that wig probably could have been the bad guy. The movie might have been more enterttaining. |
| Rating | | | Date | December 17, 2004 | | Summary | Nice Action Flick-My rant and rave | Content
| I saw this movie when it was first shown on TBS and I thought it was pretty good.This movie definitely has a "Matrix" feel to it.Although it's not the best action movie out now it's still pretty good martial arts/fantasy movie. THE KEYWORD BEING FANTASY.Billy Zane did a nice job with his role as Os(given the fact that I have never seen him do any type of martial arts movies ever) who is tasked with training 4 different people from different areas around the world..A thief,a cop,a soldier,and bodyguard. Now here's a point I wanna make about this movie.
What most of the people who gave this movie bad reviews never understood about the "Element's abilities" is...their powers only enhanced the abilities that they already had...NOT GAVE THEM NEW ONES.Michael & Serena were martial arts experts,Grady had a few moves from when he was a thief, and Ray is a streetfighter so their newfound powers were not meant to turn them all into Jet Li or Jacky Chan.
The swordfights were nice and the martial arts fights were sweet.Although many of the faces in the movies were basically new I seen Byron Mann(Michael Fu)in the Stephen Seagal's Belly of the Beast.Now if you like action/fantasy then I recommend this movie.If you are one of those people who look for realistic things and to make sure everything makes sens in a movie(when in most movies not too much makes sense)then this movie is not for you.Most fantasy were not meant to make sense or to be real |
| Rating | | | Date | December 12, 2004 | | Summary | An Invincible Pile Of Crap | Content
| Jet Li and Mel Gibson should be ashamed to have produced this piece of doodie. Chinese master action director Ching Siu Tung should be slapped for agreeing to choreograph the fights. Everyone involved should be punished for this utterly pathetic attempt at filmmaking.
I realize that this was a made-for-television movie, but I really don't know that I have seen anything that has been as bad as this. Poor acting and a laughable script really do 'Invincible' in before it even starts. I can deal with a bad script and bad acting in an action movie as long as the action makes up for it, but the scenes here are just sad. Ching Siu Tung(who choreographed 'Hero', amongst many others)had no hope of pulling off a good action scene because there was not one single actor here who could remotely fight.
The really terrible thing though is at about the midway point when everyone starts talking about fighting your enemy with love...its so terribly funny that you can't even laugh at it. Its embarassing. I feel pity for whoever wrote the dialogue. Not to mention there's about a half hour or so right in the middle of the film where the film is so repetitive that it gets extremely annoying. And then when the one guy says out of the blue "We gotta go to the tower!" for no apparent reason...but I digress, I could lambast this horrid film all night long but by now you get the point.
Avoid this piece of doodie at all costs. |
| Rating | | | Date | November 02, 2004 | | Summary | WORST FILM EVER?????? | Content
| I can usually stand bad films. This i couldn't. American TV Movies are usually completely terrible, but this film lowered the bar by quite some distance. X-MEN meets the Matrix?? Power Rangers meets TAI BO more like it!!
This film was stupid, the acting was terrible and corny. the dialogue was trying to be witty and thought-provoking - it failed.
Half the time i was wondering what the hell was going on (like the scene with zane riding a bike in a pool of water) It makes no sense and looked ridiculous!!
I've seen better special effects on 1980's BBC programs!!
and the martial arts, mostly non-existant, and when it is there, its like watching a tai-bo video! the actors have no martial arts skills so the camera just slows down when they try to land a hit and quickly moves them out of shot just at the point of contact of the hit. My gran could shoot fight scenes better and she's been dead for 12years!
The only redeeming feature of this film (besides the end credits) is watching it with your friends drinking some beers and just ripping the piss out of this film!
In conclusion, this film sucks more than u can imagine. Its your typical american tv movie OTT dialogue that fails on every level it strives for. |
| Rating | | | Date | April 17, 2004 | | Summary | Billy Zane gave a good performance | Content
| A film with a decent story line but the acting wsn't that good. The only one that stood out for me were Os (Billy Zane) who added charm and interest to the speech and altogether stole the show.
The fight scenes were well choreographed and decently performed, though the slow motion became rather too much after a while.
There wasn't enough action in this film, or if there was there was way too much sitting and talking inbetween. The part where Os is telling the elements how Slate will try to trick them and that they musn't hate him for this lingered on a little too long leaving me quite bored at the end of it.
The characters Os and Slate where well introduced at the beginning making it pretty simple to go along with though the elements weren't actually properly introduced although it was quite easy to see who they were anyway.
Altogether I think this film could have done with a little less talking and had more action in. Billy Zane gave a good performance which added more interest to the film and made me want to keep watching. If the other actors had given as good as performance as him, then the film would have been of much higher standard. |
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