The Jackhammer Massacre (2004)

Fantastic!

There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

I hope the actors in this film kept their day jobs before going into acting because they put forth the worst effort I've ever seen. The screenplay made little to no sense from the beginning to the very end. The dialogue was confusing in that most of the time what one person was saying had nothing to do with what another was saying.The director should be shot. You can blame the actors for sucking, but you can also blame the director for not doing anything about it. You can also blame the producers for not realizing that toilet paper is worth more than that script.The story begins with two strong men looking through a warehouse for Jack, who owes them money. The warehouse is filled with empty boxes and plastic wrap. The guys find Jack asleep. They hit him a few times, then inject what one can only guess is speed into his neck in an attempt to kill him. The movie would've been a lot better had he died and the ending credits rolled. Instead, he awoke, picked up a jackhammer and drilled the first's face in. In the process, accidentally showing that at least one person involved on this film knows what he's doing. And that's the props guy. The blood and gore, although unrealistically excessive and unnecessary, looks realistic. Now, don't get me wrong – the death scenes are unimaginable, and the amount of blood was impossibly copious from certain wounds. And the lack of bones raised a question mark.The death scenes are indeed questionable, and tend to be laughable. There's one where Jack takes the jackhammer to a guy's shoulder, and that kills him. How? We'll never know.After the first scene, we go back in time to sort of show how Jack got to that point. Jack's friend overdoses, and Jack flees. Then Jack loses his job and becomes a junkie, and he can't pay for his fixes. That's it. Then it goes to the first scene, and we watch that again. Then we watch Jack kill more people. The best part of the movie is the ending credits.Just so you know, almost every character takes off his or her shirt at least once in the film. Don't get too excited: there are only three girls, and one of them stays clothed, but the female nudity is within the first twenty minutes, so there's time to watch it and shut it off, which is probably your best bet if you're looking for a nipple shot.Watch for parts that don't make sense if you do in fact take the lesser chosen path, and watch the film. Notice that in a series of death scenes in the same room all take place in a curiously clean space, even though someone died brutally in the same spot not five minutes before.The ending was far from surprising, and the only part not expected was that it does not in fact end. It's around ninety minutes, but it feels like a lifetime. The ending leaves hints of a sequel, and that's the scariest part of the movie – realizing that the idiots who made this just might make another and another and turn it into a franchise.Final grade – 0.5/10

This movie was awful. But..amazing, at the same time.Okay, what the hell was that thing on his arm? It looked like a scrotum to me. And he had to like drain it and feed it? Was that why he was crazy? Or what? So confused.And his jackhammer's extension cord went on FOREVER FOREVER and FOREVER! Hell, he even chased a girl up onto the roof with it! How does that work? Oh my...he freakin' sodomized a lesbian with his jackhammer! Now, if that doesn't defy everything,I don't know what else does.Oh well.I am in love with some of things in this film though. Like in the beginning when he kills his first victim, and his face gets smashed in with the jackhammer...oh my.This movie just made me laugh hysterically.

When the credits of a movie contain listings like "naked junkie girl" you know this is going to be about as far removed from art as you can get. Okay, maybe I am being a little too hard on this movie. On second thought . . . no I'm not. This starts out as a straightforward drama about a yuppie who tosses his career into the dumper because of his addiction to drugs. Actually this all happens rather fast and I was hoping for a little more character development but heck, the director was in a hurry to get to the gore and that's what the people who went to see this movie were waiting for.So then . . . Jack, our anti-hero, has a job as night watchman for a warehouse and he is usually too stoned to even do that. His supplier is after him for money, his boss fires him, his only pal dies in his arms of an overdose; what's left of his world is crashing down and what's a drug addled loser to do? He goes nuts of course and grabs the nearest power tool he can get . . . in this case a jackhammer.Now then here's the stuff you were waiting for. Anyone who ventures into that warehouse for the rest of the movie is fodder for Jack's hammer. There is ample gore but you have to wonder when one of the potential victims is going to figure out the obvious; just run far enough that Jack runs out of extension cord! Does that ever happen? Maybe I should tell you and save you from having to suffer through this movie like I did. Hmmmmmm . . . no! Ain't I mean?The acting is okay, the effects are pretty good, the plot is cabbage. This is the sort of things that would have played in grindhouses back in the heyday of 42nd St and the Combat Zone. Now you can rent it on DVD and turn your own living room into a grindhouse. Hey, it's much safer that way.

The Jackhammer Massacre (aka Jackhammer) follows the exploits of Jack the Junkie. Always high and looking to score Jack takes a leap off the deep end when a friend OD's. The first thirty minutes are basically him conning to get a score, boring. Back and forth he sways with the ethereal wind until one of his suppliers comes calling g for his cash. Oddly enough even as a full-time junkie Jack can find a job as a security guard at a warehouse with construction weapons, err tools. It seems Jack's paranoia really kicks in with a little help from his OD'd friend's ghost. Well hey this is where that jackhammer of the title rears its head and Jack goes to town thinking everyone's DEA.The first 30 are slow and boring, who wants to see someone continuously shooting up. I don't at least. An interesting arm infection is a highlight of the first reel, not even bare chests and breasts can help that. But when the slaughter begins you can at least start cracking the power cord jokes (a la MST3K) and giggle and snicker at the bad dialogue and horrible delivery.