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UKM: Ultimate Killing Machine
SCREENER/APPROX. 92MINS/2006/USA R18+
SCREENER/APPROX. 92MINS/2006/USA R18+
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I read an interview with Michael Madsen a few years ago in the now sadly on hiatus and possibly defunct, Metal Rules! Magazine. He talked about
a lot of things, but one thing he seemed to keep coming back to was the state of his career. He said that doing smaller or independent films could
go very well, as with Reservoir Dogs, but that it was virtually impossible to tell which of the smaller films he was offered would garner that cult or
surprise hit status. It may meet the low budget requirement, but I’m guessing Ultimate Killing Machine will never garner ANY status.
The film opens with a Gulf War Syndrome sufferer getting a Captain America style overhaul. The attempt to make him a better soldier fails when
something going horribly wrong. Then a bunch of generic, problem child army recruits show up, and surprise surprise, they’re just a bunch of new
guinea pigs. The new recruits seem to have been lifted straight out of The Breakfast Club. They begin to question what’s going on at the army
base they’ve been brought to, where things don’t seem to be going exactly by regulation. Unfortunately for them and everyone else in the area,
the first botched experiment is still around, and very angry.
The only moment of interest I really got from this film was when I spotted Madsen. Aside from the opportunity to go, “Hey, that’s Michael Madsen,”
the film offered me very little. I suppose part of the problem for me may have been that I expected it to be about a serial killer, not a deranged
Universal Soldier… so I didn’t get what I was hoping for. But even if I’d known exactly what the plot was, I think I would’ve been a bit
disappointed. Ultimate Killing Machine is a movie the viewer is always way ahead of, and nothing that happens is handled in a fashion that
makes it stand out. I wouldn’t call the movie boring per say, but I certainly wasn’t very engaged with it, either.
Performances are all passable, and the plot moves along at a brisk speed. There is some low rent gore, as well. If you’re looking for some fast
paced garbage to kill time on a rainy afternoon, Ultimate Killing Machine may do the trick...keeping in mind that there’s always better stuff to be
watched.
This film was donated by our sponsor MRA Entertainment which means UKM: Ultimate Killing Machine is now released in DVD retail stores within
Australia as a region 4 DVD.
a lot of things, but one thing he seemed to keep coming back to was the state of his career. He said that doing smaller or independent films could
go very well, as with Reservoir Dogs, but that it was virtually impossible to tell which of the smaller films he was offered would garner that cult or
surprise hit status. It may meet the low budget requirement, but I’m guessing Ultimate Killing Machine will never garner ANY status.
The film opens with a Gulf War Syndrome sufferer getting a Captain America style overhaul. The attempt to make him a better soldier fails when
something going horribly wrong. Then a bunch of generic, problem child army recruits show up, and surprise surprise, they’re just a bunch of new
guinea pigs. The new recruits seem to have been lifted straight out of The Breakfast Club. They begin to question what’s going on at the army
base they’ve been brought to, where things don’t seem to be going exactly by regulation. Unfortunately for them and everyone else in the area,
the first botched experiment is still around, and very angry.
The only moment of interest I really got from this film was when I spotted Madsen. Aside from the opportunity to go, “Hey, that’s Michael Madsen,”
the film offered me very little. I suppose part of the problem for me may have been that I expected it to be about a serial killer, not a deranged
Universal Soldier… so I didn’t get what I was hoping for. But even if I’d known exactly what the plot was, I think I would’ve been a bit
disappointed. Ultimate Killing Machine is a movie the viewer is always way ahead of, and nothing that happens is handled in a fashion that
makes it stand out. I wouldn’t call the movie boring per say, but I certainly wasn’t very engaged with it, either.
Performances are all passable, and the plot moves along at a brisk speed. There is some low rent gore, as well. If you’re looking for some fast
paced garbage to kill time on a rainy afternoon, Ultimate Killing Machine may do the trick...keeping in mind that there’s always better stuff to be
watched.
This film was donated by our sponsor MRA Entertainment which means UKM: Ultimate Killing Machine is now released in DVD retail stores within
Australia as a region 4 DVD.
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