Let's keep this streak going as long as we can huh? Loving these dumb 90s-00s thriller horror mystery movies.
Resurrection is directed by Russell Mulcahy and reunites him with Christopher Lambert from Highlander. This movie was not released in the US, where it came out straight to DVD or VHS or what have you. This one is more of the same as we've had in plot so lets get to it.
Lambert is a cop and a body turns up missing an arm. That leads them to another missing an arm, and a guy that looks like the stereotype of Jesus missing his head. There's a killer out who is trying to reconstruct the picture of Jesus Christ, to create some sort of a resurrection before Easter comes. It's a ridiculous plot for a ridiculous movie.
The second or third, fourth fifth tier of this movie is palpable in every way. When we get to a crime scene, the camera work goes all "mega cool" with skewing the image and twisting it around, going to mega slow mo and thrashing hand held shots. Then super fake way too red blood is sprayed everywhere and torrential rain comes crashing down... its style over substance in every way feasible.
The plot is solved about an hour into the movie, and from there we still have 45 minutes, which is a huge problem, and in the end, its overly convoluted and ridiculously stupid. Its a completely insane movie which totally fits both the type it is, and the year it came out. The movie is almost so bad its good, its also almost kinda okay in just conventional way...but its not, so it gets a 1.5.
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