Turbo Kid Review

Aprašymas: In a post-apocalyptic wasteland in 1997, a comic book fan adopts the persona of his favourite hero to save his enthusiastic friend and fight a tyrannical overlord.

Okay, I’m lost, I’ve seen so many good and disgusting practical effects over the past year that it’s hard to choose. And although the action here is much more exaggerated and fake, you can see how much love was put into it and how creatively everything was presented. Yes, there is an inhuman amount of blood….in the sense that one individual can’t have THAT much blood inside him…and yes, some effects are weaker than others…but wow…from somewhere in the middle of the movie, Turbo Kid started to surprise me not only in brutal creativity, but also in the twists and turns of the story itself. A great movie for the evening, but it’s strange that Turbo Kid is a movie definitely NOT for KIDS.

In general, the story and its arrangement itself, you may not see anything special here. However, I was quite pleasantly surprised when many of the humor and emotional elements in the film worked well. Everything is just very stupid, the kind of movie I would like to shoot with my friends – but the movie manages to maintain a balance between absurd humor, splashing blood, and real emotions of the characters. I think what helped this film the most was the ability to use clichés you’ve seen n times without rehashing them. Love is drooling, the characters are screaming NEEEE, the villain is necessarily related to the main hero – the filmmakers seem to know what to use and never settle on one idea. It can make some places feel a little off-kilter, but I think it just adds a kind of alien charm to the film. And anyway, where else have you seen post-apocalyptic stories with BMX bikes and 8 million liters of blood?

Hey, it makes sense that the low budget will be felt in the film. While the practical effects team was shrugging off their shoulders, the computer graphics look tragic. In that sense, sometimes wow… you could have better not even show this shot. The acting is also uneven, although the kids here do a surprisingly good job, several other characters struggle to stick to such a story. And the story itself is quite unevenly distributed, some places are overstretched, others happen simply too quickly. One more thing… the audio mixing… the film strongly, strongly made the music track famous, and it also adds to that that many of the actors are mumbling under their breath – and voila, in several places I would not have understood absolutely anything without subtitles. Well, at least the music is not bad, it’s somewhat forgivable.