Reviews

I rated this movie as how I feel it should rank in the superhero genre, not overall.

I held off watching this movie for a couple weeks because of the bad reviews about this movie. It was a mistake!

From a comic book film adaptation, this movie rocked. Compare it to Spiderman 2/3 and the plethora of other bad comic book adaptations this one is much much better. The special effects were amazing, the storyline was not predictable.

Yes, Seth Rogen might have acted a bit over the top, but think about it. If you were in his shoes and the situation was "real" you would be extremely giddy / super excited / goofyish as well. In that aspect I think he nailed the part, I couldn't imagine anyone else acting the role.

Going in to watch this movie with low expectations made the film 100x better, I was laughing and totally enjoying this movie all the way through. I'm a fan of the superhero genre, and to me this didn't disappoint.

People gotta realize that not every movie needs the Oscar critiquing approach. No this movie is not in the same league as The Kings Speech, nor was it intended to be. It's a good fun enjoyable movie.

While watching this movie (not having seen the first for a couple years) I was kind of bored and the dialog / acting was definitely B/C grade material (the Jason strathom look a like too is pretty pathetic)... The last 10 minutes makes up for it all so if you watch this movie stick it out to the end. Immediately after watching this I went out and picked up the first death race all because the ending left me kind of pumped.

Don't know why this was a straight to video sequel / prequel, the original did pretty well in the theatre doubling it's budget in sales. Don't let the STV title fool you, I'd rather take a crappy script with more money put into the sets / cars for this type of movie, they all looked just as good as the original movie!

Danny Trejo did a pretty good job, his role in Machete is nothing close to what he does in this movie which was a bit of a disappointment. Sean Bean is one of my favourite actors since his role in National Treasures but again he didn't do a great job in this movie, partly to blame is the script.

I watch a ton of B grade movies so I'm used to crappy scripts / acting but it's still good for killing a couple free hours time if you liked the original's unique take on prison based story lines mixed with a bit of high octane.