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Tail Sting
DVD
*1/2
Directed by
Paul Wynne
Laura Putney Christian Scott Shirly Brener Gulshan Grover .... Yaffi Tara Price .... Courtney Elizabeth Perry .... Jodie Shawback Conroe Brooks .... Omar Tony Dimond .... Air Traffic Controller Bob Timothy Griffin .... Brick Patrick O'Sullivan .... Co-Pilot Jack Todd Sherry .... Ben (flight attendant) R 97 min From the big bug files, York Entertainment goes out of its way to bring us a tale (no pun intended, folks, despite the temptation to the contrary) about scorpions run amok in the cheapest place on earth to film in, the American Southwest. Our film begins rather simply, with a heist in the middle of the desert. Despite the incredibly thick Australian accents of our inept motorcycle thieves (Mad Max these guys ain't!), we discover that they're after a vanload of biohazard materials and other toxic gewgaws. Boy...I wonder what's going to happen when that stuff ACCIDENTALLY makes contact with the local wildlife! Hmmm...HMMMM.... The biohazard in question does indeed come in contact with some local wildlife, and the biohazard and local wildlife alike are loaded into a passenger airliner for transport back to Los Angeles. And it's not going to be a surprise to anybody when the wildlife gets loose, gets BIG, and gets bloodthirsty. ANOTHER movie about giant bugs running amok? Can we do NOTHING original? Okay, begrudgingly, I'm going to say there is a note of originality in this. The fact that, this time, the bugs are running loose not in a desert town or a hotel building or a government laboratory somewhere or other, but rather in an airplane is a surprisingly refreshing note of originality. Sadly, it's the ONLY one. Tail Sting can't even manage to coax some originality out of its ENDING. I'm really rather saddened by this. I'll be honest. The setting is so original in this, and so much COULD have been done with Tail Sting that it's actually kind of sad to watch the finished product. Watching this just makes your head shake in sorrow. Some real creative events could have gone on here, and instead, we get all kinds of More of the Same. So all in all, Tail Sting is an original idea, kind of, executed poorly, definitely. Go To Page: 1 |
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