Given BE's shitty reputation I expected bad acting or incompetent editing, but what struck me as the worst aspect was the direction! Bloody hell, the word 'amateur' doesn’t apply — it could aspire to that — it's downright atrocious. The majority of the film is shot in canted angles, which makes no rational sense, adding nothing of value to the story. If I'd not been viewing it in a 2.35:1 ratio (on DVD, bought for 10p sealed from a charity shop) I'd have thought there were shenanigans afoot because the blundering CUs make it look like an unwatchable 'zoomed-in to avoid copyright detection' video on YouTube. Oh, and yes, the editing and acting, especially Travolta, are mostly awful, too. Even the 'so bad it's good' category has standards, which BE didn't meet.
0 rat meals out of 5
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