Albert Pyun (director)
101 Films (studio)
18 (certificate)
94 minutes (length)
10 August 2015 (released)
11 August 2015
The story is the least of the problems that this film has going for it and really it would not help if I explained it. Rob Lowe is Crazy 6, a drug dealer and scum bag. He has ripped off a guy that is a real nasty piece of work. That guy for some reason has plutonium. Like you do. Now everyone wants the nuclear stuff and the audience wants to go home and watch something worth their time and money.
The truth is Crazy 6 has much going for it in the world of film analysis. Albert Pyun has crafted a film that uses mise en scene, lighting and space in a very unconventional way. The problem is, this is the problem. He has made an incoherent mess of a film. The style over substance thing would work for very few directors. Those directors would have to be amazingly skilled at their craft or having alterior motives for constructing the film in such a way. So say a Kubrick could get away with it in say Eyes wide shut but here it is a mess that can not be salvaged. Pyun is not a very good film maker. He is unable to execute the many different shades of technique required to allow a film like this to work. These shades for instance would be elements such as the reflection of emotional states of characters via mise en scene. This is over blown by excess lighting and so obvious as to be pointed out by the viewer within seconds. It leaves you in a state of geniune confusion, as it is so obvious and yet so poorly done as to wonder if it is a ruse.
What I feel has happened is that Pyun was battered for making bad films. He then set about making a film that showed, he could make films like his early work. These were made with some skill and talent. The sword and the scorcerer for instance is a well crafted film. He has then gone about trying to make a big budget film that could illustrate a crafted hand, one that would fit in to the 90s well. This failed and instead you have a car crash and one that lasts very long. I hate bad films and do not laugh at them like my contempoaries. I feel the pain as of someone destroying a great work of art....
