Director: Emanuele De Santi, Giulio De Santi
Year: 2011
Country: Italy/USA/United Kingdom
Alternate Titles: Adam Chaplin: Violent Avenger
Genre: Supernatural
Plot:
Sending off on a criminal spree, a man armed with super-human abilities from a deal with a demonic figure goes in search of the criminal boss that was responsible for the death of his wife years earlier leaving a trail of carnage in his wake that brings the two together for the final showdown.
Review:
This is an immensely tough one to get a handle on. On the surface, the main point of this one is the unrelenting and over-the-top gore which makes this rank in the upper echelon of such content in the entire genre. The series of bashings, beatings, dismemberments, slicing, decapitations, and overall bloody mess of a body left behind is somewhat fun to see play out but does take some rather underwhelming factors about how unnatural and unrealistic a lot of this is where the brutality on display moves the film along is the main and only selling point featured here. This approach might be quite appealing for most out there as the nonstop nature is a major contributing factor.
That does become one of the big problems associated with the film. The lack of a storyline here is a huge factor to overcome, basically amounting to the flimsiest of excuses to include a series of brutal and graphic violence for very little reason so the carnage just becomes a mindless blur of flowing blood, splattered bodies, and demonic incantations. It does get saved somewhat by the series of impressive visual tricks that show far more technical trickery than expected as the slow-motion strikes, hyper-speed brawls, and avant-garde lighting all make it look really impressive, but there’s still way too much repetition going on to completely overcome this.
Overview: **.5/5
An immensely fun gorefest but not much else, this one manages to be incredibly fun if the only content necessary to be enjoyed here is to be inundated with context-less blood and gore in a technically extravagant package. Those who aren’t mindful of those factors or are fans of the creative crew will want to look into this one immediately while only those who don’t appreciate any of those factors should avoid it altogether.
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