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| SEE NO EVIL (2005) - R
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SBD Star Rating:
by Lew Irwin
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 After a string of horror-film hits this year, See No Evil arrived this weekend without the benefit -- or lack of it -- of critical reviews -- and bombed. The reviews have now appeared. "It's hard to believe that the distributors of See No Evil were so afraid of what critics would say about their movie that they refused to provide advance screenings," writes V.A. Musetto in the New York Post, tongue in cheek. "The movie's target viewers aren't the type who read reviews, if they read at all -- like the gentleman at a screening yesterday afternoon in Times Square who kept yelling things like 'Awesome!' and ''That's so whack!'" But Elizabeth Weitzman in the New York Daily News agrees that the producers "wisely kept [the film] from critics." Ty Burr in the Boston Globe remarks: "A horror movie starring a professional wrestler [Kane] and directed by a guy who used to make hard-core porn [Gregory Dark]? Some audiences will consider that a warning and others a recommendation." Several newspapers reprint the review by the Orlando Sentinel's Roger Moore, who notes that the film is produced by World Wrestling Entertainment, and remarks that it "has everything you'd expect in a horror movie from the world of wrestling showbiz. It's got fake kicks, fake punches and shots to the groin. It's got exaggerated reactions to the fake kicks, fake punches and shots to the groin. And eye gouging. It's all about the eye-gouging. But where are the folding chairs? It's not a wrasslin' movie without a few folding chairs coming down on some villain's bald, steroid-addled noggin." |
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