Recon 2020: The Caprini Massacre (2004)

There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Blistering performances.

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

Let me just start out by saying that in no way shape or form is this movie noteworthy of anything good...except one small thing. Its the only movie where I have seen the Lochness Monster, Frankenstein, Mummy, Zombies, a three headed dragon, Vampires, AND werewolf all in the same flick. If you consider the fact that all of these things are in one movie you would think it would have to be sweet. Unfortunately, its far from the truth. The only reason I watched this movie is because I work in a video store and I like watching all of the movies that are campy and cheaply made because they are fun to watch. Even on the special features they rip on their own movie. \ "The actors we had were basically volunteers and we worked with virtually no budget." That was what the director said during commentary.The actors and actresses in the movie had about as much talent as my left shoe. They used about as much emotion as Stephan Hawking does with his voice box. The effects are horrible. I could do a better job with the "fire" they used with a lighter and a roll of toilet paper, which is funny because toilet paper was the first thing I reached for when this movie was over. I don't know if it was a sequel to something, but there were so many plot holes I thought I just turned the movie on halfway and was deaf. I mean, its so bad that SCI FI CHANNEL originally planned it to be a series on the network, but in the end they scrapped the plan and told them to make it into a movie. Good idea. I thank you Sci Fi channel. You spared me an hour and a half of my life I could use scratching myself or holding my breath until I passed out. I will say this though...watching it is something you should do in life. I know, hypocritical to say since I just ripped this movie apart, but let me finish. When you watch this you will feel much better about yourself. You will feel like you can achieve anything in life and all your dreams will come true. If someone can make this and actually have somebody to back it up enough to put in on a DVD and sell the thing, you can be king of France if you really tried. I hope this served as a nice insight on one of the worst movies I have ever seen.

This movie is such a joke, i don't remember i've laughed so much watching this so called "Movie". It's like watching a homemade comedy. All sound effects, like gunshots, are complete ripoff from games like Half-Life or Counter-Strike, anyone who played those games will definitely recognize them. And that's not all... they also riped off everything they could from the other movies like The Matrix, Starship troopers, The Terminator, even that famous quote - "I'll be Back" :D. The plot line ... o WTH am i talking about, there is no plot line at all :D. The movie is all about recon team sent to a weird planet with zombies, cyborgs, aliens, werewolves and even dinosaurs?? :D :D do i need to add anything else? :D

"Look, we have guns and costumes and special effects and a bunch of people to work on our movie and to be in our movie. We can't miss!!".. Well, you did. I rented this movie at CinemaNow.com with high hopes. I really wanted to like it but I thought is was so bad that I couldn't even watch the whole thing. It could not have been more boring if they tried to make it so. The directing and acting is uninspired. The pacing was so bad that I thought there was something wrong with my computer. I thought that maybe it kept playing the same scene over and over and over and over. I managed to sit through almost 30 minutes of this sci-fi action film before I decided that there was nothing at that point that could save the rest of it. The movie reminded me of an episode of the Simpsons that showed Krusty the Clown doing a bit on his television show. In the bit, he walks out with a pair of huge rubber ears on. He looks to the audience while motioning to the ears as though having them meant instant humor. He does the same thing when he pulls out a huge Q-tip to clean his huge ears. He doesn't understand why nobody thinks this is funny. Same with this movie. They have costumes and guns and explosions and many of the things that a good action film should have but they seem to think that it was enough. They forgot about an interesting story or good editing, dialog, lighting, and all the other things that make you want to watch a movie. Having a bag of tricks isn't enough. Especially when people are use to watching big budget films that have a much larger bag of tricks along with good stories, editing, lighting and the rest. Nice try but next time try to make a good movie rather than one that feeds your fantasy of wanting to be a big time film maker.

This movie is so incredibly easy to pick apart. My first laugh was when Sharp spoke for the first time, its completely ridiculous. And the green-screen effects, if they're gonna be that bad, why use them. I would have rather seen a $10 cardboard backdrop. Green-screen is not that hard, whats the problem?!?!? I've watched so many bad movies, but they've always had some redeeming quality, this movie has nothing. I wouldn't even count the gory head shots, modern video games have better special effects. This movie goes down as the ONLY movie I have ever seen that I would never watch again. I'm still stunned that a movie like this exists.