Mad Bad
Year: 2008
Director: John Keeyes
Stars: Denton Blane Everett, Vincent Riverside, Landon Dunning
MPAA Rating: R
Studio: Maverick Home Entertainment
Running Time: 95 Mins
Review Rating: 1 Star
(Please note this is an Advance Review)
Mad Bad is the latest film from director John Keeyes. The film is about an ex-con who returns to repair his life after he spent time in jail. He soon finds out that life on the outside is tough when his rock star sister wants nothing to do with him even though he still cares about her. He is soon forced back into a life crime when his sister is desperate for cash, but his past catches up to him when he decides to steal a hitman’s car. Now the hitman wants him dead and is willing to kill anyone in his way to find him. Now the ex-con has to find away out of this mess before he gets every one he loves killed.
When I got the chance to review this film, I was so excited for three reasons. First, the trailer for this film looked like a Quentin Tarantino film. Second, the film’s tagline was “A Rockstar… A Gangster… A Car Thief .” And finally this film was directed by John Keeyes, who directed the American Nightmare and Suburban Nightmare. It looked good on paper but this film is sadly a total and utter failure, as this felt like an MTV film.
Mad Bad is one of the most boring Tarantino clones out there today. Director John Keeyes’s direction was flat through out the film. One of the film’s main problems was its direction. The pace of this film was so slow. Some of it had to do with his direction of the actors. The performances from the actors were not energetic. It is something that is needed for these types of films, as this was supposed to be a Tarantino knockoff, not a snooze fest. Also, Keeyes over directs his actors here, especially the gangster in the film, as some of his dialogue (which I’ll talk about in minute) and the way the actor delivers it comes off as too whiny, not tough.
The main problem with this film was its screenplay. The screenplay written by Chip Joslin and Jason Kabolan was also bad. When you do a film like this, you have to make sure that there is enough action along with a story for the film screenplay to be good. This film felt like it had no action whatsoever and whenever it had action, it goes back to a boring subplot that slows the film down. The screenplay also didn’t favor by its development of its characters or the action that was going on. First off, I did not care for any of these characters. The reason for that was the backstory wasn’t developed well, as they could have gone more into the characters; instead we are treated to boring subplots that were badly written, as the dialogue felt stale and some of scene felt like filler scenes so they could pad a respectable running time. Also, this film didn’t have enough action. I don’t know what the screenwriters were doing with the action scenes, but it felt watered down to the point that I thought was watching a TV movie.
Mad Bad hit DVD shelves tomorrow.
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