Just the Ticket #79: Bounty Killer
Welcome back, Ticketholders, to the world of intriguing-yet-low-budget cinema.
From the preview reel preceding Sweetwater, Just the Ticket brings you a review of Bounty Killer, the film adaptation of the successful Kickstart Comics series featuring cameos by Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines star Kristanna Loken and the always captivating Gary Busey.
Enter a dystopian world full of sex, blood, and corruption where the most deadly get rich and famous and the rich and infamous wind up dead. Not much can be said of the acting on anyone's part, nor of the special effects that turn a storm-torn radioactive wasteland into a scene from Sharknado. But between the numerous creatively choreographed exhibitions of exsanguinous expiration, there oozes a measure of charisma that keeps you watching, even when you're still wondering what you're watching and why. It's the same quality of cult-classic strangeness that made Bubba Ho-tep so strangely great. While the titular hero and his lascivious competition mindlessly slaughter the commercial criminals that plague their Western-tinged wasteland (eg: a "stagecoach" is a motorhome drawn by a fleet of Harleys), Bounty Killer also manages to appeal to the modern viewer's inner commercialist; we see sex and violence and over-the-top personality in a cheap package that doesn't make an ounce of sense, and yet we want more.
Bounty Killer is the epitome of better living through ironic social commentary, but maybe not an ideal messenger for everyone.
B-
Stay tuned as next time, I take a look at Captain Phillips, and why it may or may not have deserved all the accolades it received.
From the preview reel preceding Sweetwater, Just the Ticket brings you a review of Bounty Killer, the film adaptation of the successful Kickstart Comics series featuring cameos by Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines star Kristanna Loken and the always captivating Gary Busey.
Enter a dystopian world full of sex, blood, and corruption where the most deadly get rich and famous and the rich and infamous wind up dead. Not much can be said of the acting on anyone's part, nor of the special effects that turn a storm-torn radioactive wasteland into a scene from Sharknado. But between the numerous creatively choreographed exhibitions of exsanguinous expiration, there oozes a measure of charisma that keeps you watching, even when you're still wondering what you're watching and why. It's the same quality of cult-classic strangeness that made Bubba Ho-tep so strangely great. While the titular hero and his lascivious competition mindlessly slaughter the commercial criminals that plague their Western-tinged wasteland (eg: a "stagecoach" is a motorhome drawn by a fleet of Harleys), Bounty Killer also manages to appeal to the modern viewer's inner commercialist; we see sex and violence and over-the-top personality in a cheap package that doesn't make an ounce of sense, and yet we want more.
Bounty Killer is the epitome of better living through ironic social commentary, but maybe not an ideal messenger for everyone.
B-
Stay tuned as next time, I take a look at Captain Phillips, and why it may or may not have deserved all the accolades it received.
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