Phoenix Review

Phoenix came out in 1995 and was directed by the ever-delightful Troy Cook. We have used science (and possibly the box cover) to determine that this movie fits perfectly into the "Shitty B-SF" genre.

During the time we had our polls open, 202 repulsive viewers just like you weighed in on Phoenix. 127 of 'em thought it was great! 75 thought it was shit. Takes all kinds.

This is a Dave and Jim's B-Movie Review. This review was written some time between 1996 and 2001. Once you've sucked the marrow from this one, you can head back to the full list to pick another review for savoring. Do it again and again.

Dave's Review

There are many levels of 'B' movies. There are those that are so bad they're good (most Ed Wood movies). There are those that are so bad they're brilliant (most Troma Team movies). And then there are those that are so bad they're worse. This movie definately qualifies as one in the latter category. It's incredibly inept. But they didn't even try hard enough for it to warrant some good laughs for the attempt. Instead, it's just boring. I don't know if the script writers that pump this shit out are paid by the word or if they are truely boring people. Either way, their kind should be purged from the earth, and their salaries should be funneled to movie companies that deserve the money, like Troma Team.

Dave broke it down like so: Technology: 1 Action: 3 Nudity: 2 Coolness: 1 Badguys: 1 Gore: 3 Shock: 1 Dialog: 1 Post-Nuke?: N Music: 3 Plot: 2 Length: Short Overall: 2

Jim's Review

This movie tries to be a lot of things at once, it tries to be an evil robot movie, a Evil Future Corporation movie, a movie about psychic powers, a movie about cloning, but most of all it tries t be just like Blade Runner. The name of the robot producing company is something like the Tyrone Corporation, which seems remarkably similar to the Tyrell Corporation from Blade Runner. This movie even has William Sanderson, the man who played J. F. Sebastian in Blade Runner, play the Evil Robot. Over all this move greatly lacked imagination, and it almost bored me to death. I cannot imagine what kind of people just recycle great main stream movie plots and make them B-Grade feces. Whoever these people are, they should be shot.

Jim broke it down like so: Technology: 1 Action: 2 Nudity: 2 Coolness: 0 Badguys: 1 Gore: 3 Shock: 0 Dialog: 1 Post-Nuke?: N Music: 4 Plot: 1 Length: Short Overall: 2