Why so much hype?

Did you people see the same film I saw?

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

A very tongue in cheek send up of all those dystopian action adventure thrillers of the seventies, eighties, and nineties, Six-String Samurai is also very self-effacing, but stylish. The story is a combination of a road-trip, Mad Max beyond thunderdome, and a fight to the death for wannabe RocknRollers, with a most unusual father-son dynamic thrown in. Jeffrey Falcon and Justin McGuire (as Justin McQuire) are amazing together, which is just as well, as they're on screen together for all but a few scenes, and the success of this film depended entirely on their working well together on screen. If you enjoyed the tone of "Some Guy Who Kills People", or the australian classic schlock comedy "Body Melt", then this is definitely for you.

The film is set in a Post-Apocalyptic future. to the only surviving city of Lost Vegas going hero obviously resemblance to Buddy Holly. Along the way, he fights against evil with his katana and has taken to his ally, the orphan boy scout with a cap and pajamas. The film contains many references to Samurai films, and more. Great soundtrack from the Ukrainian American band Red Elveses. The songs used in Russian and English words in songs like Gogol Bordello. Soundtrack perfectly conveys the atmosphere of the film. Despite the abundance of the battle scenes you will not see here the blood and severed limbs. Like a musician Rodriguez, the hero mows enemies left and right, do not forget to play my movie characters guitar. Many weird, crazy, funny, as if taken from the movies of Terry Gilliam: - Bunch of cannibals who hate metal rock and roll, the Russian Communists, the clan of astronauts , the dwarf leader and a horrible monster spinach.

The 'Road Warrior' ties are obvious, as others have noted. Throw in some deliberate clichés from cheesy martial arts flicks, cheesy 60s rock-and-roll movies, Clint Eastwood westerns, some 'Wizard of Oz' references, and a dollop of 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.' And maybe a touch of 'Attack of the Killer Tomatoes' too.The plot, such as it is, is bare-bones simple and has been done a jillion times. In fact, it's more predictable than one would expect at several points, though I won't give away the ending. The story is really just a rack on which to hang lots of campy, cult-film-wannabe moments.

This movie is one of the most original and fun movies ever made. There are so many good parts to it, I would fail trying to list all of them. The acting is great, the jokes are funny, the music is awesome, the shoots are eye candy. Get it on DVD for never-ending fun! Too bad this seems to be the only movie Lance Mungia ever made'We saw Red Elvises at a concert and we would yell "Nice shoes!" to them between songs :) Here's a (poor quality) video for Red Elvises' song "Lovepipe" that consists of outtakes from this movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyHc0ysKy4s