The Worst Film Ever

Simply A Masterpiece

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

How sad is this?

Resurrection is your average thriller movie about a killer, who wants to build his own Jesus corpse by collecting body parts from his victims. Christopher Lambert plays the main role as the cop who tries to catch the killer. Be it on purpose or accidentally, his performance is rather bad.It's the supporting actors that safe the movie. Leland Orser plays his part very good. Better than his jokes ^^. And then we have Gerald Demus. The villain and evil mastermind. He is such a genius that he can even pretend to be an FBI Agent and talk to them about the case. The "Agent" helps Lambert with advice and is quite likable. His superior intellect helps him keep his calm even when he gets arrested, because he knows that they don't have any evidence. So I really liked that part.But then you have detectives throwing up all the time, victims peeing at themselves because of electro shocks and newborn babies hanging around. Not necessary! And what about Lambert? Apparently no one likes him in the office. Except Orser. Yet after they take away from him the case everyone is nice and friendly and takes him along to the investigations and before you know it he is the one in charge again.His character is also somewhat shallow. They show a scene where he lost his child and some of the problems he has with his wife, but you can't bring yourself to really care about it. It's merely filler and doesn't help to carry the story.To sum it up, the movie is about average. Nothing you will regret watching once. But you will forget about it the moment it's over.

A precinct already working hard fitting every cliché of these genres(psychological thriller, cop crime investigative flick) into just one 100-ish minute picture is hit by several brutal murders where limbs are missing, and Lambert(who lost his daughter... son, I'm sorry, she... he... looks... uhm, great... anyway, he died in one of those ridiculously contrived sequences that only happen in this type of movie, and that could, by the way, easily have been avoided by the introduction of common sense... oh, and if you think that will pay off, don't hold your breath, it's a cheap setup with minimal payoff) is brought in for his experience with decapitations and paint-by-numbers plots. You can figure out the basics of where this goes, everyone talks in Hollywood Dialog(and immediately after, dramatically turn to walk away, signifying how deeply they feel about how lazily this is supposed to conjure up emotion(with that said, this does make you care about some of what we see... though at least once it utterly betrays whatever confidence they might have earned for that)... did I mention that the villain has impeccable luck in where he hides is a regular occurrence(planning...does...not...cover... it)?), for every good performance there is at least two that are over the top, but still, this is a cool enough concept(I will not reveal what the endgame is... though I will say that I don't know where the bad guy got it from, nor what his motive was, and there wouldn't have been a film if it had been slightly different, and less random...), it keeps to a fast pace(you're not bored...it does help to MST3K it), there are chilling bits(helped by the impeccably done practical FX) and, directed by the usually dependably visually interesting Russell Mulcahy, it's nicely filmed and edited, except for when the cameraman gets zoom-happy in a desperate attempt to increase the tension(which is successfully built here and there), the tracking shots(typically doing a semicircle on a character, so they can remain in place and still do a powerful change of position) that are so fast and start and end so suddenly, I've nicknamed them Whiplash-pans, and it, gradually, using the "nausea-vision" filter excessively. The DVD comes with trailers for Elizabeth and Rounders. There is a lot of strong language, a moderate amount of bloody, gory, disturbing violence and a little full frontal nudity of both genders in this. I recommend this to big fans of this kind of thing, as it gets the job done and has solid production values. 6/10

Director Russell Mulcahy who also created other classic flicks, Resident Evil: Extinction 2007, The Lost Battalion 2001, Ricochet 1992, Highlander 1986 and Razorback 1984 has created another gem in Resurrection.Starring Christopher Lambert who has also been in other classic flicks, Beowulf 1999, Nirvana 1997, The Hunted 1995 and Russell Mulcahy's Highlander.Also starring Leland Orser who has also been in other classic flicks, Taken 2008, Very Bad Things 1998, Saving Private Ryan 1998, Alien: Resurrection 1997 and another classic serial killer flick, Se7en 1995.Also starring Robert Joy who has also been in other classic flicks, The Hills Have Eyes 2006 and Land of the Dead 2005.I enjoyed the violence and the cinematography.If you enjoyed this as much as I did then check out other classic serial killer flicks, American Psycho 2000, The Boston Strangler 1968, Copycat 1995, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer 1986, The Hillside Strangler 2004, Laid to Rest 2009, Man Bites Dog 1992, Satan's Little Helper 2004, Schramm: Into the Mind of a Serial Killer 1994, Maniac 1980, Natural Born Killers 1994, The Cell 2000, Dirty Harry 1971, The Exorcist 3 1980, Summer of Sam 1999, Freeway 1996, Acolytes 2008, The Collection 2012 and Silence of the Lambs 1991.

there are many that don't see the "similarities" between this movie and Se7en. They are there: the killers dialog is pretty much the same as it was in Se7en "it seems I underestimated you" "im too smart for my own good" "it wont happen again." Christopher Lambert is playing the Morgan Freeman role and Leland Orlsan (sp?) is playing the Brad Pitt character. One of the other Resurrection "scenes" i remember watching and thinking "ive seen this before in se7en" was when Lambert and his partner were talking about catching this killer and Lambert's partner went on a Brad Pitt/se7en rant about him "jerking off with peanut butter" or something and telling him he was a "nut job" etc. and Lambert taking the Morgan Freeman role and saying "he admired the intellect not the actions" of the killer and all that wise talk. on to more important things... if you liked se7en, you will be pleasantly surprised with this one. this was one of those movies that is really good in its own sense that no one has ever seen. the acting was borderline, thanks mostly to Lambert. The story was intriguing and the screenplay was surprising. It's better than most the serial killer recycled movies they got out there now.