All Superheroes Must Die

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When I saw the box art for "All Superheroes Must Die," the first thing that came to mind was "Watchmen" and "Kick-Ass." The two masked men on the cover reminded me of Ozymandias and Dave Lizewski because of their costumes. I was immediately intrigued when I read the synopsis and found out who directed, wrote, and starred in it. The name Jason Trost will be known to many quirky film lovers who delighted in "The FP." Who wouldn't want to see another project made by the guy who brought us a movie about an apocalyptic world where people fought to the death playing a sadistic form of "Dance, Dance Revolution?" I could only imagine where he would take the superhero genre with "All Superheroes Must Die." Four superheroes named Charge (Jason Trost), Cutthroat (Lucas Till), Shadow (Sophie Merkley), and The Wall (Lee Valmassy) wake up in what appears to be an abandoned town. They discover their super powers were taken away by their arch nemesis, Rickshaw (James Remar). The villain puts the heroes through a series of challenges that test both their mental and psychological strengths. They find themselves racing against the clock to save abducted civilians which Rickshaw is using in his insane game. "All Superheroes Must Die" is a unique, dark, and twisted take on the genre it addresses. It's a little slow at times but delivers some great violent spurts and causes the viewer to think about the questionable actions the characters make throughout the film. The concept of superheroes dealing with saving people without their powers leads to some disturbing outcomes. I wasn't wrong in my initial comparisons to "Watchmen" and "Kick-Ass" as I perused the cover of the Blu-ray. The homemade costumes and colored language the heroes use heavily resembles the Minutemen and the empathetic characters in "Kick-Ass." Whether they were born with their powers or gained them later in life, these individuals are very "human" at heart. Everyone in "All Superheroes Must Die" put forth their best effort in their roles. James Remar ("Dexter") portrays the villain Rickshaw with devilish delight. Jason Trost plays Charge successfully as a downtrodden hero who is mentally exhausted by his work. Lucas Till is in familiar territory as Cutthroat, having already starred as Havok in "X-Men: First Class." Superhero fans of "Watchmen" and "Kick-Ass" will find something to appreciate in "All Super Heroes Must Die." They'll be especially pleased with its foundation in reality and violent sequences which bring to mind the newer "Before Watchmen" stories being told about the different members of the Minutemen. It does get bogged down in dialogue in some spots. One big complaint I have is that it ends abruptly leaving you unsatisfied. However, don't let that keep you from enjoying everything else about it. http://contributor.yahoo.com/user/849014/eric_shirey.html

Just. No. That is all i can say. Luckily i rented this flick because i thought " Woah, superhero's being put to the test and actually dying in a 2013 flick? Sounds awesome." Well it absolutely wasn't. Heres what the film throws at you. 4 super hero's wake up in seemingly random locations. Only thing is, they don't even look like super hero's. There costumes look like a Toy's R' us Halloween costume, one they mark down after 2 days. Anyways, they don't explain how they randomly blacked out and woke up injected with something that you find out later that it takes away their powers. After acouple minutes and all heros wake up the Villain on a tiny TV telling them how he has dozens of innocent citizens strapped to explosives and even the ENTIRE TOWN ready to blow up if the heros don't follow his game, because hes tired of losing. The entire town can be apparently entirely crossed on foot in under 5 minutes, and it has no police force apparently. The heros when facing the challenges are just morons, One charges a enemy only to get dirt in his eyes ( which apparently incapacitates him for a unreal amount of time) The other one charges at him and drops their weapon, just to get boot kicked in the gut, and also incapacitated, then the first dude gets 12 inches of knife in his gut. and just no. THIS MOVIE HURT ME EMOTIONALLY. It has horrible acting, one of the weakest plots iv seen in along time, does nothing to make you care about the characters, and even less to make you feel like these people really were super heros in the first place.

After watching the trailer for the film this strangely caught my curiosity. I read a review online suggesting that I checked it out, giving it all sorts of praises. This was the first and probably only time that I've ever gotten angry at a review. I swear to Christ, this was the absolute WORST movie that I've ever seen in my entire life. It is worse than The Room, Plan 9 from outerspace, or even trolls 2. At least those three films were humorous so while indirectly, it had an appeal. A reason to watch them, and a reason to enjoy watching them. The director had absolutely no idea what he was doing. The character development was so bad that if a character died I might have actually gained a slight amount of excitement because that means the story is one step closer to ending. The director apparently constantly tore pages of the script due to budget concerns. This needed to have been dealt with BEFORE shooting. A script needs to go through AT LEAST four drafts. Many of which need to be rewritten for story purposes, fixing mistakes(not necessarily grammatical, but relationships, dialogues, and characters themselves) and the last few drafts being edited for budget concerns. A certain aspect of filmmaking is about compromise. Compromising with what you have, and if you don't have a big budget then for the love of God, please don't try to act like your story is bigger than what it was. I seriously cannot understand the appeal for films like this. I've often seen people online saying how they enjoy superhero movies, especially the much smaller low-budget ones. Go watch the 2010 James Gunn film Super starring Rainn Wilson and Ellen Page. That's a low-budget superhero film done right. 2009's Defendor. Anohter low-budget superhero film done right. These such films are movies that didn't try to be anything else other than what it was. The cast worked with what they had, and the directors knew the art of filmmaking well enough to at least make a halfway decent film. The premise seems slightly creative, the first scene seemed like it would be promising but it just fell flat as if the director went "Y'know what, **** it. Let's just make up new obstacles. The first idea is put into the movie" I mean the "creativity" of this so called "mastermind" villain was so poorly done that I actually lost complete interest for any kind of unique "traps" the heroes could face. Were these people ever truly superheroes? Because they did their job pretty badly. The "shocking"(and I say shocking in quotations out of pure sarcasm) revelation about one of the characters just makes the viewer feel annoyed or even frustrated. This film is directed, starred, and produced by the same person. He clearly had no freaking idea what he was doing and was completely in over his head. This film is among the ranks of student films and fan films on YouTube. The fact that it even got anywhere is astounding. The fact that people actually like this is even more astounding. If you're thinking of seeing this movie, you should probably just watch a bunch of little kids playing "Superhero" because it's probably a lot more entertaining and creative than this piece of trash.

Well, before watching this i had an underlying suspicion that it may be terrible. But as i do with every film i greet it with a sense of optimism. I will start by saying that the storyline had the potential to be great. A really interesting and unique viewpoint from the Villain and the "superheroes". Unfortunately this film falls flat on it's face, in fact it falls and the face implodes. I won't go into what happens and i won't try to deter people from watching it but i can say one thing. You know that feeling when you go to see a superhero film, like Batman, Superman, Spiderman etc and you come out wishing you had those powers, and you think about what you would do, and it leads you to ask what superpower you would love to have, and then you ask your friend, and you have a whole conversation on your enthusiasm to be a superhero? Well after watching this i am happy as a civilian.

This is one of those movies that needed a bigger budget. Although that wouldn't have helped much either. The story is bland and there is almost no creative ideas in this movie. The fact that the characters in this movie is suppose to be superheroes is almost irrelevant to the plot. The movie "Alter Egos" executed the superheroes genre well. "Alter Egos" didn't rely on gimmicks but a clever and somewhat original script. And even if it's a superhero movie that didn't show much superpowers the story and direction of it all carried the movie. And the interactions amongst the characters. This one on the other hand just relies on gimmicks and fails on every level. The story doesn't make much sense and a lot of things are unexplained and very underdeveloped in a negative manner. The movie has that main character dude from "The FP" which was a alright movie and it's directed from the same director of "The FP". This one on the other hand is a complete disappointment and lacked the creativity and some clever moments that "The FP" had. Lucas Till is also in this but he doesn't really stand out. He should just stick with the superhero role in the "X-Men" movies. The premise is bland with the characters not being likable or developed enough. It's basically another Jigsaw like villain playing games with these so called superheroes. Except Jigsaw is more of a likable villain for someone that is a villain or can be a anti-hero to some. James Remar is alright but he plays a very detestable and despicable villain. If they were going in a direction where they wanted the villain disliked and unclear, they did a fine job on that area. Overall this is a awful superheroes movie that isn't even a superheroes movie. They lacked the budget which is fine in some cases but if they didn't have a good enough idea they shouldn't have even tried. 1/10

Its a low budget, independent film, so do not go into this film thinking you're going to see a mainstream action comic-book hero type blockbuster. Had some interesting ideas that begin to galvanize but ultimately end up deflating due to some obvious plot holes and inconsistencies. For example, it was a great idea of having the protagonist "pretend" to have powers...but then it should be obvious to people around him all the time that he doesn't in fact have superhero strength. Additionally it was strange and inconsistent when The Wall commented on Charge's super strength handshake. Another example, it had some great psychological scenes that really made you question your ethics, but then the villain was overcome by Charge drawing lines on a map in the most childish pattern imaginable to find the villain. Basically, one man was able to kidnap 100 civilians, 4 superheroes, and rig up this elaborate booby-trap town...but couldn't do better than a simple one way camera or hiding out in the most obvious place (In the middle of everything).

I like campy low budget movies so I thought I'd give this a try. However at one scene a lady has a weapon but charges an enemy and throws said weapon aside while doing so. WTF? Any idiot knows to use the weapon and if you're a superhero, and most probably a veteran of some encounters, you would know to take advantage of it. I had to stop it because I hate when any movie makes characters stupid in order to force the story along. Also, how come someone has super strength one second then doesn't the next? Oh yeah, to force the story along. The only good thing about this movie is Harry from Dexter as the bad guy.

If you can't AFFORD to make a movie, please don't. There was a promising premise to this film, but it died along with my hope as the movie progressed. I understand low budget film-making isn't effects driven, which is fine... but when the acting is terrible as well... The characters were not likable, the dialogue was stilted and there was zero emotional involvement. It's all over the place, and it expects you to follow. *SPOILER* In the beginning, one of the heroes cringes from a handshake from the "strong" superhero, stating "you still have your powers." Later in the film, we are told this character never HAD super strength, he just worked out a lot. HE DOESN'T EVEN LOOK LIKE THE STRONGEST PERSON IN THE FILM! There's a supposed love triangle, but one of the points dies quickly, making me wonder why it was even introduced. There's an entire town, and they're given 5 minutes to get from place to place, the "villain" is found quickly and easily, puts up virtually no fight, and I didn't care about any of the supposed tension in this film. I read that there was talk of a sequel. Don't bother. Of the 15 people that saw this one, I think you may have offended every one of us.