Monday 13 April 2020

Mini Retro Review: Epicenter (2000) #badmovies

Epicenter
2000
Action



I wasn't expecting much from Epicenter; a low-budget straight to DVD effort, it had B-movie action star, Gary Daniels, who with the right material, can light up the screen, softcore movie actress, Traci Lords and Jeff Fahey of The Lawnmower Man in this one. Noted as one of PM Entertainment's last movies ever produced, it borrows stock footage taken out of other movies such as Eddie Murphy's Metro, Speed and Money Train starring Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson. The decision to copy and paste scenes from those films does let it down a little -, although if the budget was really small, one could see why the directors resorted to those measures. A cross between an action film and a disaster movie, what doesn't quite work is the plot and the story, which is stifled by the pacing & dreary melodrama involving Traci Lords' character and her daughter; plus, I wished the script incorporated more of Daniels' martial arts fighting and fighting scenes and of him utilising them more often. Traci Lords plays the FBI agent going after Gary Daniels; Gary Daniels has the role of a disgruntled computer systems hacker, who lost his wife and who is trying to move on and the pair find themselves on the run by Fahey and his goons when an earthquake strikes & thus, Daniels and Lords end up working together. As a B-movie cheapo, I thought it was okay, it was oddly watchable in places, yet as a general action film, Epicenter is not good at all and needed more and better quality action scenes. Nonetheless, it could have been much worse that I ended up turning it off right off the bat, 20 mins or so into it. Fortunately, the manner of the turns by Traci Lords and Gary Daniels just about saves it from being unwatchable. 


Is It Worth Watching?

Meh



Overall:

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