Monday, October 13, 2014

Mr. Bricks: A Heavy Metal Murder Musical (2011, Travis Campbell)

Well, this was an incredibly uncomfortable experience. It's about as awkwardly douchey as you would imagine a 'heavy metal musical' being and more. Even to hardcore metalheads (which I am), this is cringe-inducing...

A hooker is kidnapped and raped by Mr. Bricks - a bulky reprobate with a solid black gladiator helmet tattooed on his face and bald head. She is rescued from his warehouse dwelling and he is shot in the head in the process, but survives and sets out searching for her. Turns out she's also got a 'fling' going on with another married cop who wants Mr. Bricks dead.

Throughout this agonizingly boring movie are painfully generic, poorly recorded musical breaks that try to resemble something along with lines of 'metal'. These 'songs' consist, primarily, of lots of forcibly angry and despairing lyrics along with headache-inducing camera work and music video-style editing accompanyment. It's all the more pathetic that they did not have a budget that was conducive to pulling this "style" off, adequately. At certain points, there's this terrible fucking fire graphic that appears on screen that looks like it just a feature on the camera they were using. And as for the plot, nothing really happens... It's all redundancy and bland, hollow characters that have no developement, whatsoever.

For anyone spotting this title and thinking that a 'heavy metal murder musical' sounds "cool", it's actually the furthest thing from that, imaginable. Just total fucking cheapass garbage.

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