Awful but worth seeing.
931168
John's Apocalypse can be understood either as the nightmarish vision of a disturbed mind or else as a deeply symbolic religious diatribe. The idea of making a movie about the literal interpretation of the nightmare itself  could be very interesting from the cinematographic point of view, but,  certainly, can be on no value whatsoever to Christianity - it would in fact  trivialize the Scriptures.
This movie fails on all counts: As  entertainment it's badly done even though I actually sympathize with the  actors who were trying to do their best with an extremely stupid script and  mediocre directing. As a Christian movie, I think it is a disaster: it is a  thinly veiled attempt to scare people back to religion. It pushes people to  think about the surface rather than the content and meaning of the good  message. For example, in the movie the Salomon Temple is rebuilt  physically; any reader of the New Testament knows that the Temple  symbolizes Christ's body or faith in Christ. A basic idea in the movie is  that God not only chooses to speak to humanity through a book, but chooses  to put in it important information as a "code" decipherable by  computers! Superstition has nothing to do with Christianity and this movie  will not do any good no matter how many people call it  "Christian".
The "Omega Code" should be seen by all  who want to understand how the televangelists think about Christianity and  the Bible.
423944
This movie is awful. The acting, the script, the way it was adapted from the book (scenes cut out, adapted). I listened to the audiobook and while I found the content kind of cheesy, the writing was decent and made it a worthwhile read for the commute home. The movie, however, included all of the terrible parts of the book and left out all of the promising aspects. Two stars because if you are really bored, it will at least help you kill time; if you are looking for something to equal the experience of the book this movie is not even palatable.
4319897
Almost excruciating to watch and the plot is impossible.
842865
I knew going into this that this movie was horrible on an epic level.  I had heard from friends and movie critics (as well as one friend who actually IS a movie critic) just how poor this movie was, but it wasn't until I actually suffered through it myself that I realized exactly how bad.  Let me tell you something, think of the worst porno movie you have ever seen and remove all the sex and hot women. add back in some weird sex scenes including people you would never want to see have sex, and then you're about half-way to understanding this movie.  I gave it 3 stars because I did laugh a lot, but it was laughing AT it and not WITH it.  I feel like in order to get my money's worth out of this, I need to continue to loan it out to other people and tell them how excellent it is and tell them that they have to see the twist at the very end.  By ruining 2 hours of their life, I feel that I might be able to recoup my dignity and money that I wasted on this piece of garbage.  So far, I have loaned this movie to 3 friends, and have lost 2 of those friends out of anger that they had for me after taking my advice to watch this on a first date.  So, to summarize, this movie is awful and only worth a watch if you have a choice between watching The Room or being waterboarded.  At least waterboarding is over in 10-15 minutes.
2649416
I have to say I didn't watch to the end. It's so formulaic, just couldn't bear it. The cinematography is excelent, even ugly things appear beautiful on film.
Not recommended.
3684669
The story and the idea is terrifying and legit,  however the acting and directing is about as horrifiying as the plot itself is. This movie is bad , I cannot recommend it. The message is clear and understood,  the movie itself is just terrible,  steer clear unless 1$ rental.
1257720
Some people say that effort is worth something in and of itself even when you fail miserably - "at least you tried," such people will say.  These people have never watched Back From Hell.  I've seen many bad movies in my time, but this piece of cinematic putrescence has taken a little piece of my very soul down into the pits of hell.  This is the movie that will be playing continuously in hell throughout eternity.  I mean, this movie is awful in ways I never thought possible.  Usually, a dash of gore will make a film survivable for me, but even the bloody bits of Back From Hell are so fake and ineptly done that I really should be in a fetal position moaning in the corner right now.
Surprisingly enough, I think there actually was some sort of script when filming began, but it was obviously lost or simply destroyed soon after production started.  With actors as bad as those featured here, a script does seem rather pointless.  The film starts out with a priest named Arron (Shawn Scarbrough) driving out to the middle of nowhere to hear a private confession from old friend and current Hollywood celebrity Jack (Larry Dubois).  Jack explains how he sold his soul to the devil in order to become famous; personally, I don't think Satan himself could have even found this guy a gig in community theater.  Anyway, Jack didn't live up to his end of the bargain, so the devil has cursed him.  Now, anyone who looks him in the eye tries to kill him.  Arron has trouble buying this story at first, but then two cops show up and are quickly dispatched.  Jack then summons Satan in order for Arron to speak to him, and soon thereafter both guys are on the run trying to stop Satan's master plan, which Jack just so happens to know all about, to return to power on earth.  Basically, the guys just drive around and eventually walk out into the middle of nowhere, fighting and killing everyone they meet.  The ending isn't too terribly bad considering everything that comes before it, but it certainly doesn't help the film serve any purpose.
This movie has the worst acting I have ever seen; honestly, it is absolutely dreadful from start to finish; the main character can't even run convincingly, let alone act.  Then there is the gore; it's awful.  There is quite a bit of blood and guts, but it's all laughably fake.  Most of the time, someone is obviously just squirting or tossing blood on people from just outside of the shot; it never comes from the direction of the person actually being sliced and diced.  The movie can be hilarious at times, such as the scene wherein a hand pops out from the pages of a Bible and attacks the priest, but a little humor is hardly worth the mental anguish you will endure watching this film.  The only people who should even consider watching Back From Hell are people like me who are obsessed with watching unimaginably bad horror films.
2027291
I saw this when came out, as a high school student with a girlfriend.  Needless to say, we both found it beyond shocking, truly horrible in its angst and rage and cruelty.  Brando, a damaged and unhappy man whose life is in ruins, meets an empty and inexperienced girl, who submits to his sado-masochistic "numbers" with incomprehensible passivity.  Perhaps she is bored, perhaps she wants relief from her bourgeois life - a clinging mother and unbearably insipid boyfriend - or wants to experience something raw and new, it is impossible to say.  It is like she is an empty vessel, an object, for the horrible things he does to her.  There is plenty of nudity, some iconic scenes like the butter one, but few normal human emotions.  The Brando character is pure despair and loneliness in an extraordinary performance.

He sets the rules:  they meet in an empty apartment for sexual experimentation.  They are to tell eachother nothing of their outside lives, not even their names.  Their brutal meetings are interspersed with scenes from their lives, he in despair over the suicide of his wife, she on the path to a life with a filmmaker of the most idiotic pretension, filming their life yet afraid of any honest emotion with her.  They are both empty and lost.  It is pathetic.

Gradually, they begin to learn about the other, in particular in descriptions by Brando of his unhappy childhood.  She is an innocent, too inexperienced to understand how Brando is using her and why, merely going along for the ride.  Schneider is beautiful, but her character is shallow, perhaps because of her acting she is not at all interesting beyond being a pleasure object.  When he tries to take it to another step, to meet outside the apartment, the ending didn't quite ring true to me, except for the casual indifference he felt towards his impending death.

Seeing it again as a man older than Brando and after so many imitations and overly brainy conversations about it, I thought that the film was still quite good.  I didn't "freak out" the way I did at the first viewing, but the sadness of it all remains deeply affecting.  Sex and despair are no longer shocking to filmgoers as they were when I was young, but it is great art house cinema and worth a viewing for any film buff who is interested in the history of the medium.

Recommended.  This is like a modern equivalent of Balzac in its magical realism.
1395424
Had to force myself through this movie as it is crap, ie (the storyline and the acting) but the quality both sound and hdr were above average.
1568473
I hate to say this was one of the worst films I have seen in a long time. OK, here we go with a train that has the last of world's survivors. The first class, or rather important people, are up front. The middle class are in the middle while the dregs of society live in miserable conditions in the back. The "worthless" live in horrible conditions and survive on one protein bar a day. No surprise that a plan is hatched to move forward to the front.

SNOWPIERCER is a dark film to watch and not just in regards to theme. The setting is dark and poorly lit. The train seems cavernous and it was hard to accept they were on a train. OK, it does star Chris Evans, John Hirt and Tilda Swindon (doing a very strange accent) yet their talents are wasted.

This was a movie I could not enjoy or appreciate. I did not feel like it was worth the time to watch it.
1936206
There are just so many ways this movie stinks. Bought it for my kids who had not seen it in the theater. They hated it and so did I. If you feel you have to see it, rent it! Some good special effects make up for some of the awful story line, there are a few likable characters but for the most part I would have rather been having root canal!
3206337
Watch it once and judge for yourselves. I was able to get through most of it.  It was a let down all and all but that ended was just awful....
192363
The photography was bad. The acting was bad. The direction was awful. There was no story. The editing could have been worse but I am not sure how. The movie does have a good title.
3232848
Great cast, awful storyline hard to believe it was a Micheal Bay film. Had a few funny parts not worth paying for.
2986195
Sometimes, there's a fine line between a terrible movie and terrific.  When things don't click, or some aspect of the film is not given enough attention, a movie can fall on the wrong side of that line. This movie does that.

This movie has a lot going for it. It's got a strong cast playing interesting characters, a couple of really creepy settings in which to shoot, and some absolutely killer makeup and special effects. The directing at times is extremely canny, with some really cleverly-timed now-you-see-him-now-you-don't shots.

But it doesn't click. For the first third of the film, I was bored. During the third third, I was revolted at the gratuitous gore. That left one third of a film that was pretty good.

I blame the shortcomings primarily on the script, which was poor. And what's really annoying is that it seemed like the writer has talent, but was just going through the motions. There were places where things should have happened---and if the writer had given the story any thought, he would have made them happen---but it felt like the writer was too lazy. This results in a lot of confusion for most of the film followed by an implausible info-dump toward the end. Honestly, even after the info dump, I still didn't quite get it.

I genuinely would like to see the next film this team makes. I genuinely believe that they are really close to greatness, but that they need to be more self-critical, and spend more time questioning themselves. There was too much really good stuff in the film, but it didn't hang together. I bet the next one will.
3268983
Potentially interesting story with completely mangled acting. If you want to watch something for its "you-gotta-be-kidding" value, the scene with the rhinoceros is worth the watch. It is so rediculous that's its funny.
4104333
The first 30 minutes is hilarious and entertaining. Then it becomes so unrealistic and boring that it's hard to watch.

It's worth viewing for curiosity.