Max Knight: Ultra Spy |
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Australia / USA • 2000 • 86m •
  • Directed by: Colin Budds. • Starring: Michael Landes, Rachel Blakely, Christopher Morris, Brooke Harman, Anja Coleby, Chevonne Duncan, Michelle Van Der Water, David Chamberlin, Brian Carroll, Paul Dalglish, Jarrod Dean, Jon Halpin. • Music by: Garry McDonald, Laurie Stone.   Lindsay Daily has almost discovered a new power source when she is kidnapped by Zachary Khan, who persuades her into giving him the secret. He plans to upload the minds of his followers onto the internet and create an eternal cyberutopia. He also decides to destroy humanity. Max and Lindsay's sister Ricki not only have to rescue Lindsay, and save the world.
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Review:
The dialogue made me wince virtually every minute, it was so corny...some of the lines of the "bad guy" hacker and his "avatar" followers sounded as if the scriptwriter just grabbed some random terms out of the Jargon File (or it's print equivalent, "The New Hacker's Dictionary") and stuffed them in with little regard for how techies actually talk. At other times, some characters speak in a computer "jargon" that's almost indecipherable. Most of the characters are cut from cardboard (Max's virtual helpmate Claire being a partial exception) and are unremarkable; even Max's backstory suffers from the same cornball effect as the rest of the dialogue.
To compensate for the lack of good writing, the filmmakers threw in lots of special effects, including a bunch of low-budget CGI work. Let's just say they got what they paid for. Periodically, the camera zooms in or out for no readily apparent reason; it's obviously trying to highlight what there is of the "dramatic tension" at certain moments, but it just fell flat with me.
Basically, if you take this movie for what it is, you might have some fun with it. (It's certainly crying out for the MST3K treatment.) If your expectations aren't low enough, this movie will be about as tough to swallow as two tablespoons of peanut butter.
Review by erbo from the Internet Movie Database.
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