Moonwalkers

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Ron Perlman and Ron Weasley fire large guns, drop acid and fake the moon landing, not necessarily in that order. The concept brims with absurd potential, with Perlman's flashback-plagued hardass hoodwinked into taking a sleazy band promoter (Harry Potter alumni Rupert Grint) as a serious filmmaker and friend to Stanley Kubrick, but it loses most of its shine in the leap from paper to screen. The jokes fall flat, the satire lands limp and the cast, for all its unusual promise and zany unpredictability, is usually just going through the motions. There's a decided lack of urgency to this caper, even when two separate gangs of gun-wielding maniacs descend upon the production, and that spells doom for any film of this type. I may have smiled once or twice - the colossal screwup of their final film makes for some occasional fun - but its failures in the suspense genre are evenly matched by its shortcomings as a comedy. Seriously disappointing.

I am a little over an hour into this movie and at best I have been mildly amused during a few scenes. I watch many low budget 'B' movies always hoping to find that hidden gem, and sometimes I find it, this isn't one of them. It is relatively well acted and directed, for a low budget 'B' movie and the premise is there for laughs, but the jokes are lackluster at best, and not really all that original. they are all quite predictable. The physical comedy is average at best, nothing that is going to make you laugh out loud, though. There IS quite a bit of bloody violence, murders and gunfights, but again, nothing you haven't seen before. I'm giving it a 4, and that might be generous since this is billed as a comedy and it's not really funny, if you enjoy intelligent comedy, this movie is not for you. it's very juvenile comedy-wise. to sum it up, I was in the mood for a comedy, had the right mindset to laugh, and this movie did not deliver even one chuckle. I wish I hadn't taken the time to watch this, nothing worth seeing here...

It's all here in this wacky story set in 1969 Britian. A paranoid ex-Vietnam soldier ex-CIA agent with spells of schizophrenia, a wanna-be rock star, pill popping hippie love children, a Warhol like flower child movie maker, mafia types, lots of splatter, guns, guns, guns, and a conniving four star Pentagon US army general. And they all have a goal involving money and a trip to the moon in 1969. These characters all comes together brilliantly directed by Antoine Bardou-Jacquet to keep this movie moving along and no sooner has it started it's over. A fast moving comedy that will have you wanting more. My favorite scene comes at the very end when everyone is gathered around a television in a small café in Spain! If you choose to see this movie do not read the plot first. Just let it happen while watching!

The poster, the cast and the plot made it seem like it could be an amazing movie, albeit it's far from amazing it's still entertaining. I expected a more realistic approach on tackling one of the greatest conspiracy theories of our time, the one that is about the moonlanding in 1969 being staged (in order to beat the Russians to the task so they would still be seen as the most powerful country in the world). A theory that I actually believe could be a true one but I won't dig too deep into that because if that actually did happen how it happen would most likely differ substantially from the plot of this movie as this one is solely about the comedy... and the action, which there was plentyful of, to the point that it might get too bloody for some sensitive viewers. A lot of sex, drugs and rock n roll as well. The acting is fine, Rupert Grint does really well in comedies as he's proved before with the slightly better 'WILD TARGET (2010)' which also got him entangled with gangsters. Robert Sheehan I didn't even recognize as the bearded hippie-friend of Grint, despite 'THE ROAD WITHIN' with Sheehan being one of my favorite movies of 2015, so yeah he was good too. Ron Pearlman does his thing as always. Gets a little too druggy at times perhaps and the pre-credit montage was a little too much but overall yeah solid enough entertainment for sure. Also the movie clocks in at 97 minutes not 107 minutes like IMDb lists it at.

While 8 would imo be too much, 6 is definitely less than what this movie is worth. Come on people what's wrong with you? When I see some ratings here lately I wonder how can those film get a 8 and this a 6. The acting here is fabulous, the humour is in a right balance of dementia and intelligence. There are nice gags, a nice kind of surrealism, it even touches some political themes, and it offers more or less all what you may want, fun, action, drama, sexiness. So, don't hesitate. Anyway I think that IMDb should urgently revisit its politic of "not enough lines" for reviews. People do not necessarily have to write the holy bible to review each single film each single time. (hopefully now I have enough lines).

Did the NSA secretly pay a Frenchman to direct a British movie as a cover up about the CIA paying a German to direct a British movie for a 1969 cover up that only an American would still believe today, in an attempt to discredit the agency-coined conspiracy theories devised by the KGB, CID, DFS, RCMPSS, SDECE, MI6, BND, Supo and a few dozens more out of sheer jealousy for a world-class lie ? Ron Perlman, whom I have enjoyed since he fell off a tree in 1981, made this film watchable until the end for me, despite the fact that it was not at all what I expected, and not as good. I've got the strange feeling that the hippies and the others come from two different movies, the former from a light spoof of the 60s, the latter from a classic British gangster romp. I guess it's what the makers were aiming at, but it doesn't mean it works. For starters, the light comedy isn't funny. I early realised that the film couldn't be great. As soon as a turd was shown. That's one of the best signs right there. Strangely, there were no fart jokes after that. They were replaced with decapitations. The serious scenes are a tad gory indeed, if stylish. Not funny either, even for a lover of black humour such as I. Unless I missed some sort of dead black pan humour. I almost forgot: I would have given 1 more point for the quality of the detail in scenes of this period piece, but I have to take it back for all its hairless hippies and shaved armpits. Back then, people had not yet been brainwashed by deodorant corporations and by the Californian * industry into amputating their cooling system.

Review: What a waste of time! The concept was completely ridiculous and Ron Perlman looked really out of place throughout the movie. Perlman plays a CIA Agent, Kidman, who has to pay Stanley Kubrick loads of money to fake humans landing on the moon, just in case the real event goes wrong. When he goes to Kubricks office, he bumps into Jonny, Rupert Grint, who is a broke manager of a rock band, and he explains the whole scenario to him, so Jonny uses his friend, Leon (Robert Sheehan), to pose as Kubrick, so they can get the money. After making a successful transaction, the debt collectors turn up at Jonny's house and they take the case of cash, which leaves Jonny in a bit of a pickle. On top of that, Kidman finds out that Jonny and Leon was lying, so they have to retrieve the money from the gangsters so they can make the film. Kidman uses his militant skills to get the money back but they still have the problem about making the film. Jonny then uses his contacts to make the film but they now have the mob on there tale and pressure from the agency, who needs the film before the event. Sounds interesting but it really wasn't! The comedy was silly more than funny and a lot of the characters became annoying after a while. The best thing in this film is Ron Perlman, who cracked me up when he was on acid but the movie really was a disaster right from the beginning. Rupert Grint was a bad choice for the lead and the vibrate, 60's theme, looked awful. Every character looked like they were high on drugs and the violence seemed way over the top. Anyway, the whole Moonwalkers experience was a waste of time and money and I'm not surprised that it didn't get a major release. Bad! Round-Up: After the popular Harry Potter franchise, Rupert Grint, 27, hasn't really had a successful career but his voice has been used in an episode of American Dad, Postman Pat and the Unbeatables, so he has a little to be thankful for. He had a cameo role in the Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman alongside Shia LaBeouf and he had a role in CBGB and Cross of Honour but that's about it. I did find him pretty annoying in this movie but that's mainly down to the awful concept and ridiculous script. Anyway, this is the first movie directed by Antoine Bardou-Jacquet, who really did make a right mess of things. I also found it quite insulting that they were using the late, Stanley Kubricks name in such a silly way and I was surprised that his loved ones allowed it. If there is anyone out there that liked this movie, please tell me why because I was really disappointed. I recommend this movie to people who are into their comedies starring Rupert Grint, Ron Perlman, Stephen Campbell Moore, Eric Lampaert, Kevin Bishop, Jay Benedict and James Cosmo. 2/10

It's a Guy Ritchie vs Tarantino style movie with Ron Perlman doing a great job as a sloppy arrogant agent that manages to mess up a mission to fake the moon landing teaming with two idiots that fooled him. A fun movie with a funny plot done in a very convincing manner. This only proves how a good script, good shots and good direction together with good actors that are not necessarily celebrities - can end up with a great result that does not fall short of the big pictures. Food for thought for big studios IMHO and Perlman here shows sides which I've never before seen him do. Definitely worth watching. Amusing, not hilarious but fun to watch.