![]() Then there is an assassin sent by Testament, the amusingly named Endless (Kevin Lukata). Meanwhile, a police detective, Benjamin Poge (Costas Mandylor, who played Mark Hoffman in a few Saw films), who drives a car no real city police officer, even of a higher rank, could ever afford, is inquiring into the high body count. Somehow, Super-Lazarus manages to get a small army to take on mid-level distributor Poet (Damien T. Hey, every superhero film needs an equal match-up for its final act, right? Just think Thanos or Hela (Ragnarok). He is yet another one of a legion of Biblically referenced names such as Chapel and, as the Ying to Hellborn’s Yang, there is Epiphany (Lyndsey Lantz), who is busy working on an equally powerful evil version of Lazarus, because opposites attack. The main villain is violent drug kingpin Testament (Adamo Palladino), who had Lazarus killed in the first place. The events take place in the sarcastically named Paradise City. Wait a minute, didn’t I see that in the comic and film Spawn? Don’t get me wrong, there actually is a comic by the Lazarus name, but it is totally not connected to this release.įor this film, the aptly named titular Ray Lazarus (Sean Riggs) is an African-American man who is killed, then comes back to life thanks to a mysterious being called Hellfire (Shane Brolly, who was Kraven in the Underworld franchise), whose powers include strength, the ability to absorb the life force and knowledge of those he whomps, and he cannot be killed he wears a costume to weed the city of criminals. It is a tone, a stylistic choice by the production, that make it a modern comic book film. Because sometimes, your trip ends before the in-flight movie does, and you really don’t want to ask the pilot to circle the airport just so you can catch the finale.Some of the execution might veer between cliched and questionable, but there is just enough fun action in Lazarus to make it worth a go.Ĭomic book movies are not always based on the standard comic characters.Because sometimes, you fall asleep watching a mediocre rental, and would rather return it on time than pay two more bucks just to see the end.Because sometimes, your TiVo timer didn’t get it quite right, and cut off the crucial final minutes of something that won’t get shown again for six months.Because sometimes, you’re not interested in seeing that movie everyone’s talking about but are dying to know what the hubbub is about anyway.Because sometimes, you vaguely remember an old movie that had some sort of plot twist at the end of it, but can’t remember what it was. ![]()
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