MOVIE REVIEW: Hectic Knife

A knife wielding vigilante who has had enough of saving people must fight against the greatest evil that has ever been known.

This is a low-budget film that tries to make it a spoof movie like Airplane did for Airline disaster movies, and The Naked Gun did for Police Shows.Â Mind you as I didn’t know anything about the film before watching and I’d like to thank ComicCrusaders.com owner, Al Mega, for giving me this assignment, and by thank I mean I’m structuring a voodoo doll of him and expanding the words of torture I’m familiar with to make it more interesting.Â When the film started I thought low-budget horror, which could have been interesting, but when I learned that it was a spoof of the 1980’s vigilante movies I thought that it could be even better.

I was wrong.Â Like that time I tried to bring flared trousers back for heavy-set guys in the 1990’s wrong.Â Although I almost gave this film a one just for effort.Â But none of the jokes work.Â For a satirical film that is a huge minus.Â It’s shot in black and white and that helps a little.Â Some sight gags work but not in any meaningful way.

Hectic is the title character and there are a few times during the film that showed a tiny amount of promise.Â They understood the jokes that they were going for but just couldn’t get the ball over the finish line, or some such sporting metaphor.Â You could also admire the effort but some of the performances are just so bad that I cried for all the wrong reasons.Â There are times that I thought I was back in the 90’s and watching the great comedy show The Kids in the Hall and then something truly awful happens.

I don’t mind low-budget films.Â Horrors to Romantic films. Â I just ask that everyone does the best that they can.Â There are people in Hectic Knife that are just phoning in their performances and moments that will make you cringe.Â There isn’t much more that I can say about this film that my obvious disappointment that you are reading is not conveying.