Mean Guns | | Cast : | Christopher Lambert, Ice-T | | Director : | Albert Pyun | | Studio : | Vidmark/Trimark | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned | | Released Date : | November 21, 1997 | | DVD Released Date : | July 28, 1998 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), English (Original Language), French (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | June 25, 2005 | | Summary | what a mean movie | Content
 | This movie has people who are inside a prison. They have to kill as many people other people as they can only three can survive in this movie they decided to let only one survive. The winner takes home $10 million. Christopher Lambert character (Luu) "sorry if I spelled it wrong", is a psycho who has fun killing in this movie, he has a little girl who waits in the car during the whole scene. This movie plays alot of mambo music. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 27, 2005 | | Summary | CLOCKWORK LEMON | Content
| MEAN GUNS is a vile, pointless movie with no redeeming qualities. The horrible acting of Ice T has never been so flagrantly evidenced as in this loser. He plays some kind of syndicate lord who assembles all these people who have somehow betrayed the syndicate (this includes for no apparent reason a vampire?). Armed with not only guns but baseball bats, the movie is one long let's see how many people we can kill in ninety minutes. The murders are offensively brutal and with a plot that limps along, one has to wonder why this movie was even made. How can we root for anyone when they are all heartless, cold-blooded killers? Christopher Lambert, the stone faced hero of B movies, even brings along his little daughter to wait in the car while the murders go on. The movie tries to embrace some kind of code of honor among murderers, but is there honor among these low lifes? One female actress, who plays Barbie, is so obnoxious I couldn't wait for her to meet her demise, and it takes a long time to happen, too. With an ending that is so forced and implausible, MEAN GUNS is one mean film, and that doesn't mean you should watch it if you know what I Mean. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 27, 2004 | | Summary | In a Nutshell: Mambo Murder | Content
| I've now seen the film Mean Guns twice and I have even purchased the DVD (albeit off of a bargain rack). This isn't a great film, it isn't even really a good film, but it can be entertaining if you like violence and mambo.
The story behind the movie is weak at best and the cast (consisting mostly of Ice-T and Christopher Lambert) really doesn't do much to improve the film. There are some interesting action moments, all to the beat of Mambo music.
If you can find it for a cheap price I'd suggest it, but I wouldn't pay any more than a couple of bucks for this film. Of course if you're a diehard Christopher Lambert fan or if you really love Mambo and Violence, this might be something you want to invest in. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 19, 2004 | | Summary | Christopher Lambert Is Back.... Run away. | Content
| I have not read James Marcus' book, "Amazonia," but in a recent NPR interview, he insisted that during his Amazon tenure he was never pressured to write positive reviews of things he found crappy. However, Amazon's editorial review above makes me doubt such a claim. If the guy had said this movie is so bad that it's good, I could accept that. But to suggest that "Mean Guns" has redeeming qualities that anyone involved with it actually intended it to have? You've got to be kidding.
Also, do not believe the overall user rating for this movie or the low ratio of helpful to unhelpful votes that my review will inevitably get (assuming anyone ever actually reads it). Most people who have rated it are probably Christopher Lambert fans, so they obviously have no taste. For anyone who realizes Lambert has less acting talent than a dead dog, let me inform you that "Mean Guns" is actually terrible. I will admit that I found it to be enjoyably bad -- the incompetence of everyone involved gave me a few pretty good laughs. But enjoyably bad is still bad. I will say this -- at least it was not nearly as horrible as the previous Pyun-Lambert project, "Adrenalin: Fear the Rush" -- a movie as boring as it was atrocious. But that ain't saying much.
The absurd premise of this movie is that a bunch of members of Ice-T's crime syndicate have betrayed him. So he rounds them all up into a prison (a prison that will be put into use housing actual inmates the following day, mind you) and distributes all sorts of weapons among them: bats, guns, knives, you name it. The members of the syndicate are supposed to kill each other off and the last three members alive will split $10 million.
A friend of mine once jokingly suggested that the plot to this movie was devised after Pyun found out that many of his actors could not stay on long enough to finish the movie (hence the pointless killing of all the characters as the movie progresses). Frankly, if my friend's suggestion turned out to be true, it would not surprise me in the least, because this movie makes no sense at all. Why nobody kills Ice-T, I don't know. Why Christopher Lambert leaves a kid in his parked car outside the prison while all this goes on, I don't know (or just can't remember). Why there are vampires in this movie, I don't know.
All I do know is that it is bad. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 29, 2004 | | Summary | Mean Guns Doesn't Mean Any Good | Content
| This film is a travesty of the action-adventure genre. First off, the plot is illogical and absurd even if it might be a policeman's dream: all the major criminals around congregate at a prison and kill each other in one enormous shootout. That essentially is the plot of the movie.
Adding to the "fun" is excruciating, repetitive dialogue where the major characters attempt to bare their souls. At the end of these long-winded discourses, one fervently wishes these characters to be brutally killed for being so insufferably boring and pretentious.
Oh yes, how can one forget the equally irratating mambo-inflected film score which blares loudly. and repetitively, over the soundtrack? Unfortunately, it's not loud enough to drown out the dreadful dialogue.
Mean guns doesn't mean a thing. |
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