Ten Dead Men (2008)

Very Cool!!!

Sadly Over-hyped

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

This film is so utterly dreadful that I couldn't finish it. It's obvious that the "actors" were just martial artists plucked from a gym and had no acting ability whatsoever. There's been no story development past whatever gangster films the writer/director and producer decided to use elements of and lastly there's a voice-over ... which made me cringe every time I heard it, and insisted on telegraphing the story.The story is not so much conveyed to us, but dictated to us which is just sloppy. Didactic films are not the way to go here.It's at that point I stopped the DVD and checked out the IMDb. Guys, you proudly proclaim that this is your 40th film together. Did you actually bother learning anything from the previous 39? Things that are essential in film-making such as story, character, frame composition, lighting, sound design, music and directing? It's obvious that while you have the talent (or luck) to get projects off the ground, you've no idea about how to execute a film.In summation, either watch a bunch of really good films and learn to see how they work ... or just stop now and let other people have a go. I really hope this isn't representative of your body of work but i've an odd feeling it is.

Here's your average low-budget gangster "Resevoire Dogs" rip-off flash-back gangster revenge film. With awesome fight sequences. I'm still running the flash-backs of the sword fight in my head. But as a low budget gangster film it gives you exactly what you want. The fight sequences are Brilliant amazing. Whe the main character(who doesn't speak a word) goes up against bruiser he beats him like a rented mule. Hands him a beating that made my shins and knees hurt. Bruiser laffs wipes the glass and plaster off himself and yells "Is zat all you got!" (see KIMBO SLICE you-tube video). Then the real fight starts. It was as goodas the one in "SNATCH/5 MINUTES IN HEAVEN" Howeva as a British Gangsterfilm, it sucked. British Gangster films are known for witty dialog,humorous and interesting characters and getting "MID-EVIL" (SNATCH/GANGSTER #1/LOVE and HONOR/THE GENERAL/THE RISE OF THE FOOT SOLDIER)on someone(they invented it) instead of shoot-outs. This one didn't have that, any-time you hear narrations throughout the movie it takes away.Now if you don't mind I'm gonna re-watch all the fight scenes.

Ross Boyask & Phil Hobden have created, in this movie, a work so awful that it is utterly compelling.If you remember the dreadful photo stories from the girly teen comics of the 80's, (so brilliantly parodied in UK adult comic Viz) then imagine a moving picture version with violence, and you will be most of the way toward understanding the feel and presentation of this film.The storyline itself, is a poor version of The Crow, without all the coolness of course, and without the exceptional feeling of empathy for the main character. Where The Crow had dark, brooding, Gothic brilliance, with a classic and memorable score, this movie failed at everything... except at being bad, that is. If revenge story lines were drinks, The Crow would be a fine vintage Champagne, whereas 10 Dead Men would be p*ss flavoured water.Where it fails in the storyline department, it fails equally as spectacularly in the action genre department. The fight scenes are patently contrived and badly executed, and the gore effects brilliantly poor.The acting itself is so appallingly bad, that the viewer is forced to consider the possibility that Boyask abandoned the traditional auditioning route, and instead opted for the less orthodox method of approaching likely looking characters in bars, and asking them if they wanted to be in his movie. Seriously, the acting is so bad, that at times even the walking looks strained and put-on.Doug Bradley's narration seals the deal. It comes across as a badly written afterthought; an addition to the moving picture storyboard. It's almost as if the director realised that the acting talent within the cast pool was utterly incapable of putting the rather tired storyline across, and threw it in as a necessary evil. The movie is however, all the better for it.And therein lies the brilliance in this movie. It is so unintentionally bad, that it compels you to keep watching, right up to the rather predictable and clichéd ending. One needs to look to the deliberately awful genius of Peter Jackson's 1987 movie "Bad Taste" to see this sort of dreadful. Where movies deliberately made this bad miss the mark of awful by the very act of trying to be such, this movie succeeds in spades entirely by accident... It is that which makes this movie worth watching.I would have loved to have given this movie a 10 vote, if for no other reason than the maker's sheer lack of shame for releasing it. In the end, I gave it one star, because awful REALLY IS the best description for it... and that's why you should watch it.

Know of this film from reading Impact magazine in the UK, bought a copy when I went over to the States this week… Being a fan of Left For Dead all I can say is Wow! 10 Dead Men is well wicked… much better than Left For Dead (which I liked a lot also). If you like bloody over the top action movies that are just relentlessly violent from start to finish then this is the film for you.Brendan Car is rock hard scary and even Lee from UK band Steps is pretty good. It's got Silvio Simac (Transporter 3), Pooja Shah (Eastenders) and loads of faces from Brit films and TV such as Chris Jones, Glenn Salvage, Terry Stone and more.This is a well wicked movie that any action fan should watch.