This was a very interesting movie. The premise is that a shop teacher (carpentry) takes on student who was responsible for the teacher's son's death years ago. Yes, a little twisted, but worthwhile. There's no music in the foreground or background; the sounds of the carpentry shop serve that purpose. The ultimate question becomes, What would it take for you to forgive someone? We're so interested in vengeance that we forget that people are involved all the way around. I'm not at all advocating a lack of justice or being soft, but our job is not to destroy a person. There is hope.
Universal Soldier: The Return
Let me just say that I was not at all expecting a film of any artistic merit whatsoever. The original Universal Soldier was a fun little romp, a totally mindless piece of candy; I figured that the sequel would be somewhat along the same lines. It's hard to believe that this film failed to live up to no expectations! It was so horrible. The redeeming feature of the movie? it was only 82 minutes, including credits. This movie had lots of characterization, the full gamut of which was demonstrated in each main character every minute or so. It's really bad when Jean-Claude Van Damme is the high point of the movie. There were actually a couple of nifty parts, to be fair, one of which was when some of the "uni-sols" came down the ropes in the big warehouse. That must have been a fun scene to shoot.
And has anyone heard of the band, Pig in a Can? Their style is best classified as Industrial-Techno-Blues. Yeah, you read that right. A very different kind of a sound.
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