20141104: Action Review--Raze

Raze

1. Fundamentals, reception.
1. American live action feature length film, 2013, rated R, 92 minutes, action, horror.
2. IMDB: 5.1/10.0 from 2,910 audience ratings.
3. Rotten Tomatoes: 44% on the meter; 33% liked it from 813 audience ratings.
4. I saw this on The Movie Channel.
5. Directed by: Josh C. Waller.
6. Starring: Zoe Bell as Sabrina, Rachel Nichols as Jamie, Tracie Thoms as Teresa, Bruce Thomas as Kurtz, Rebecca Marshall as Phoebe, Adrienne Wilkinson as Nancy, Bailey Anne Borders as Cody, Sherilyn Fenn as Elizabeth, Doug Jones as Joseph.


2. Setup and Plot
1. Joseph and Elizabeth run a facility where kidnapped women are extorted into fighting each other to the death.  (Fight to the death or we kill your close relative.)  The winner of each of their elimination derbies supposedly gets to go back to society as a free person.  Almost everyone dies though.


2. Two women fight at a time.  The others get to watch.


3. So.  Elimination derbies either proceed to the end, or the imprisoned group finds some way to fight back.  Sabrina is clearly the protagonist in this horrid situation.  Will she and her few allies break free?


3. Conclusions
1. One line summary: Women instead of men in forced death matches.
2. One of ten; black holes for acting, sound, screenplay.


4. Scores
1. Cinematography: 1/10 VHS quality coupled with occasional massive pixelation.


2. Sound: 1/10 Horrible background music, and vocal sound quality was so so.


3. Acting: 0/10 There was acting?  There was some mediocre martial arts choreography, but nothing akin to acting.


4. Screenplay: 0/10 Flimsy story about an absurd horrific situation.