Mean guns - my definition of a bad film

[BTB]

To make my introduction as a new member I want to post about my favorite Bad Movie, which is the bad movie which started my passion.

Just looking at the leads and you know you got a bad movie

Ice-T and Christopher Lambert.

Everybody in this movie knows it is a bad movie and they revel in it and this is the most fun about it.
The dialogues are Tarantino inspired nonetheless they talk about unnecessarry cussing.

The story itself plays in new prison which before it's opening is filled by the mafia with lots of hitmen who have three hours to kill each other for money.

Lots of subplots which are never truly explained or executed
for instance
-the slut which accidentally gets involved and is one of the most dangerous persons
-christopher Lamberts small daughter waiting in a car at the parking space, the character you hope the most to be executed
-Christopher Lamberts mental trauma

The soundtrack itself is put on in the film by Ice-T's Character who choose to play Mambos by Perez Prado ( the King of Mambo) and gives the movie a we are having fun in headbashing Quality.

I learned a lot about Bad Movies by browsing through the site and the boards and this a part of the small wisdom I have to share for you.

[Yaddo 42]

You forgot directed by Albert Pyun, a bad movie homing beacon all by himself.

Great premise and setup, poor execution.

I was on the side of this one for a while especially after Lambert's reply to "Any other questions?!?!" "Yeah, Where can I get this CD?"

Also when the guns get dumped out and everyone scrambles to arm up, only to find the are all unloaded, then loose rounds and magazines are dumped out. A better movie would have made more of this, after this part, no one seemed to be hurting for ammo.

I remember being in another thread on this film a while back. I haven't seen the film since then either, but I'm certain the little girl claims Lambert isn't her father when the female doctor finds her at the end, and even refers to him as "that creep".

Wow, Deborah Van Valkenburgh went downhill from The Warriors and Too Close for Comfort.

[Fearless Freep]

Saw parts of this one and been meaning to see it all again.

I'll watch pretty much anything with Christopher Lambert, though

[Jim H]

I actually quite enjoy Mean Guns.  It's definetly a bad movies overall.

Good music, some entertaining action scenes, and I like a lot of the characters. 

Also of note is how badly cropped the film is.  It was obviously filmed much wider, and looking it up on the IMDB reveals it was in fact shot at 2.35:1.  It makes the sin cards, for example, almost unreadable.  Oh well, I do like the film but importing the Japanese LD or the French DVD isn't quite worth it to me.

BTW, I think Michael Halsey, who played Marcus, did a great job, overshadowing everyone else in the film.

[Neville]

My favourite Albert Pyun film, together with "Poastmortem". It didn't make much sense, but it sure was a lot of fun, specially with the mambo music.