Yikes! Who thought this was a good idea? Michelle Rodriguez stars as as professional hitman Frank Kitchen who, after killing the wrong person, is given a sex change against his will and released back into the world. Don’t you hate it when that happens? Rodriguez plays both versions of the character offering her some interesting acting challenges but this translates to almost nothing of interest on-screen.
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In a library of mediocre to awful Prime original movies, Balls Up asks them all to hold their beer. This aggressively unfunny comedy stars Mark Wahlberg and Paul Walter Hauser as employees for a company that invents a condom that also covers a man’s balls (hence the film’s title) who cause an incident at the World Cup making them the target of an entire country of insane soccer fans. We also get the likes of Benjamin Bratt, Sacha Baron Cohen, Eva De Dominici, Daniela Melchior, and Molly Shannon for equally unamusing moments.
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After breaking out of an asylum for the criminally insane, three wacky inmates (Stephen Stucker, Bob Minor, and Michael Pataki) make their way to a strict all-girl boarding school (whose student body was cast mostly from porn stars and centerfolds of the mid 1970s leading to some pretty dreadful acting across the board), by way of pleasuring a sexually-frustrated farmer’s wife. Attempting to play up the humor by making the trio a bit more bumbling than dangerous, there’s still plenty of questionable activity here, much of it which can’t simply be laughed off.
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A braindead action comedy, Playdate stars Kevin James as stay-at-home stepdad Kevin struggling to make a connection with the awkward Lucas (Benjamin Pajak). Enter alpha dude Jeff (Alan Ritchson) and his even more awkward kid CJ (Banks Pierce). In the course of afternoon, Kevin’s interactions with Jeff lead him to be hunted by armed mercenaries and mistaken for a child abductor along with Jeff, who actually is one (hardy har har, ain’t child kidnapping hilarious?).
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Although I was aware of the first two Chappie-centric sequels to Iron Eagle, this direct-to-video turkey has flown under my radar for more than 30 years. I simply had no idea that Iron Eagle on the Attack existed. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.
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