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« on: July 01, 2005, 04:47:01 PM »

Just finished watching the latest Fantastic Factory flick,  a sci-fi movie loosely based on a bestseller by spanish author Alberto Vazquez Figueroa. I have to say that this must be the most strange FF film so far, and one of the most surprising in Yuzna's career.

If on previous adventures the FF tried to stick to genres like the haunted house filn (Drakness), the super-hero movie (Faust) or the monster movie (Arachnid), Rottweiler must be their first sci-fi movie. Not sci-fi in the Star Trek sense, of course, but more on the Cyborg / Cyborg II sense. The film, which seems entirely shot in Spain, is set on the near future, where a young man escapes jail to reunite with his lost lover. He is inmediately followed by a robotic hound which tries to kill him as well as most of people he is in contact with.

It works better than I expected, and it may be the best Yuzna film of his last years. Although the acting is weak (save special appearences by veterans Paul Naschy and LluĂ­s Homar)  and the first half ends being a bit too repetitive, the script by Figueroa et al. is more sophisticated than you may expect, slowly transforming from an action film into something differnt, more vague, and Yuzna, for the very first time in his career, dosifies gore quite well. He even abandons his well-known pedestrian style, trying to do something more elaborated and mature.

People who like serious movies should avoid this one like the plague, as usual with FF flicks, but B-movie regulars should take a look at it. You may have serious chances of doing it soon, because Lions Gate is featured prominently in the credits, which probably means a DVD release is on the way.

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