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Sorry for the late posting I had completely forgotten about uploading this review yesterday. So for this week tanya tuesdays is now tanya wednesdays. I shall however, make sure that next tuesday there is definately a review up for the site. Even if I upload it a day early and put it in a queue. Anyway enjoy the review

Dead Space Downfall (2008, Chuck Patton) is an animated prequel to the Dead Space game. Crew members of the Ishimura, a mining spacecraft, discover an artefact called the marker. The artefact is moved onboard the spaceship and a series of disturbing events occur. Crew members exploring the planet where the marker was uncovered, become violent, suicidal and mentally unstable. All hell breaks loose as one miner brings his dead wife, who commited suicide, onto the Ishimura unaware that an alien, a necromorph lies attached to her dead body. This necromorph then spreads throughout the ship and the body count and alien infestation rapidly rise. Vincent a crew member and her security team attempt to save members of the ship from the outbreak, slowly her team falls prey to the necromorphs and Vincent learns there is no hope for her or anyone on board the Ishimura.

The film is really quite enjoyable. There isn’t a lot of story of character development, the film is just essentially a gory bloodbath. It’s enjoyable though because the gore is not approach in a tacked on way. There are some quite gruesome moments within this film, you see peoples jaws ripped off and the like. The animation is well done, I wasn’t expecting the film to be so well animated.

It was quite unusual watching this film, firstly because Jim Cummings does the voice for one of the characters and unfortunately for me I will never be able to separate Jim Cummings and Tigger. I know he does a lot of voices for films besides Tigger and he is a good voice actor. Unfortunately throughout this film which was obviously supposed to be a horror film I kept seeing Tigger. That’s something more personal for me though. Secondly knowing the ending of the film because I was aware of the games ruined it slightly for me also. There was no climatic moment because I knew they were all going to die, I wasn’t concerned as to whether the characters would make it through the film because I knew they wouldn’t. The film is actually quite good though, I believe you can get it pretty cheaply and you can also watch it on netflix (like I did). It’s definitely worth a watch if your a Dead Space fan, or a fan of gore and violence. It’s even a film that now I’ve seen it, I’d go out an purchase myself actually.

This film is shit. Seriously. I have no idea what anyone was thinking when they worked on this film. Erm I’m not even sure about the narrative with this film. It something about a pendant one gives you mind powers and the other moire body focused like strength. Anyway this evil guy Shuko (Robert Patrick) wants both the pendants unfortunately he only has one. Now if you check out the picture you can totally see where Jedward get their style from. Now this distracted me from the actual film. I found discussing Jedward and the hair was much more riveting than the actual film. I’m sure I’m not the only one thinking this. Anyway the guy wants the other half of the pendant to rule the world, I assume.

The other half of this pendant is with two brothers Billy and Jimmy Lee (Mark Dacascos & Scott Wolf) who clearly have two different mothers, possibly fathers can’t rule that out. The rest of the film then involves the two brothers trying to learn how to utilise the power of their pendent whilst keeping it safe from Shuko. Eventually the brothers get both of the two pendants and unite them so they receive the skills or powers from both pendants. Get these “jazzy” outfits and defeat Jedward-in-ten-years-time Shuko.

The narrative is really cheesy, everything about this film is cheesy, the lines are lamer then the stuff I come out with.

The graphics in this are surprisingly worse than those in Super Mario Bros film. There’s many scenes which depict video games and the graphics in those are a billion times worse then the graphics of games from 10 years before the film. Like how is that even possible, many their intentionally made to look horrible. Whatever the reasons may be it certainly wasn’t a good move.

Now the soundtrack of this film is again horrendous what on earth was up with the song choices for the end credits. It makes no sense, seriously its like having krusty the clown turn up in My Sisters Keeper. It’s wrong, just wrong. It just feels that everything that is involved in this film is just wrong. Nothing appears to go right with this film.

You’d have thought that with this film action would be well thought out. No no no! The punches blatantly don’t make contact. It almost like watching two people try and fight each other from opposite ends of the room.

Just I dunno I feel wrong for even telling people such a film exists. Hopefully I can use this as a warning to tell you to avoid this film. I remember spending half the film talking about Indiana Jones, for your information I was obviously watching this film with someone else not just talking to myself. So yeah go watch some Indiana Jones films there good, heck I would even recommend watching some Jedward videos above this film.

I can’t believe I just recommended Jedward *sigh*