Search and Destroy

Search and Destroy confirms current cinema paradoxes. No about that is a comedy, but it was making me funny sometimes when it wasn’t in movies marked as comedy, which cannot make a smile even.

The second half of 90s and 00s studios who were making flicks for VHS and then DVD were choosing countries, which fit for a small budget. Fall of communism in economically devastated the Eastern Europe gave opportunity for these filmmakers. One of these companies was Millennium Media is heading by Avi Lerner, who did savvy decision in buying of national Bulgarian movie production complex Nu Boyana Film Studios in 2005 and since that time uses for creating films, which became larger in budgets and for cinemas. Sometimes producer releases flicks as Search and Destroy.
Everywhere it resembles what was doing Millennium Media decades ago and personally associates in directed by Menahem Golan in 90s whose all made then films I would be call as impossible realism. Search and Destroy looks a digital remastering of past, which has homage to 80s synth music and impromptu written screenplay. Rudely editing where was obvious to see using of footages, which indicated by IMDB from Danger Zone (1996), Shark Attack 2 (2000) and seen Derailed (2002), which I like.

That film didn’t make to be meticulous on bloopers, which sometimes were coming in turn. Everything was appearing to be for high mood in unplanned parody on action. Performers was giving in acting. Moments as this one, where watched before scenes switched on black-and-white with playing of amateurish song was a music video without meaning in understanding. Nonsense comes from beginning in voiceover narration of Dylan Bruce who plays John Whatever and his personage prefers to speak in one-lines in which willn’t alone. Mostly conversations are tough phrases with embedded sweet swears used despite on stance. Sentences can pronounce a funny voice what reminded about Ugandan filmmaker Nabwana IGG, who makes videojoking of own movies in similar sound.
Explosive bullets of automatic rifles torn in fire pieces transports when in straight contact on adversary soldiers use invisible bullets, which don’t make holes. No blood leaves a knife of head villain in performance of Sergey Badyuk, whose character had potential of philosopher. He should grow a Marx beard. It especially matches in scene of his religious thinking. Rocket launcher’s projectile kill enemies behind wooden boxes and doesn’t harm nearby things. It was close to associate with a computer game, where explodes by script and allowance of developers. The movie stops to be funny progressively. Professionally done was in a fight choreographer who can get nice combats, but nothing more of possible in watching. One with a half of hour is exhausting length.