Event 16 (2006)

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Truly Dreadful Film

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

This would have to be the worst movies that I have seen for about 10 yrs. The acting was sooooo bad and flatter then a pan-cake. Special effects where very basic and of primary school standard. Some of the plot line was good though and I feel that if it was given to a professional film maker and script writer and established actors, the movie would have been way much better. Really dont' bother watching this crap.

B videos can be so annoying to watch. A pretty good idea ruined by some set of fools who want to add revolting sexual scenes, either to try to get an audience or satisfy their own disordered desires. This is such a a piece of trash. If there was censorship, this would not be here to be reviewed. Every form of the popular gender-identity disorders is in this, smeared together with a potentially interesting time-travel video, ruining it. I gave it one star, because the site doesn't have negative stars. Making a video like this should carry a mandatory life sentence, with mandatory psychiatric interventions. Researchers should be exempt from using ethical standards when trying to fathom the pitiful, perverted a$$holes who made this.

As a person who likes a linear narrative, with clear signals as to who the characters are, I struggled to follow this film. We jump back and forth in time (that was fairly clear, though not enough was done with makeup to age the characters who went in the usual direction at the usual speed), and most of the characters take over each other's bodies at some point or another.At the second Wellington screening (which I saw yesterday) the director said it was aimed at the Playstation generation, who are used to characters with multiple incarnations. I hope someone who is good at that will explain the narrative to me.I found the characters fairly engaging, though the two (three?) who seemed to be officials in charge of preventing temporal paradoxes or some such were never quite explained, and even a psychopathic killer needs *some* motivation. The central relationship (geek and girlfriend) was entertainingly unstable.This movie will look OK on TV. On the big screen you could sometimes see the pixels. The sound was adequate, except that sometimes the synching was enough off that I wondered if it was deliberate, to create a "not really him speaking" effect.As a Wellingtonian, I enjoyed the images of Wellington in 1893, the present, and the 2020s, and the surreal treatment of most cityscapes.I'd call this a "Bad Taste" for the 200Xs. It's got the same clunky New Zealand makeshiftness (number 8 wire, we call it), the same homespun characters moving in a world beyond their control.I predict people will rent this movie more than once or buy it (on DVD in October) to try to figure it out, and go on to watch it cultishly, like "Bad Taste".Pearson said this movie was effects-driven (as was BT) and his next movie will be more character- and story-driven. I look forward to that, and then to someone giving him some money to make his LOTR, King Kong, etc.

I saw the "World Premiere" of 'Event 16' at the Wellington Film Festival yesterday. I was excited to see a film made by Kiwis in NZ, and the story sounded good, time traveling to 19th Century and bringing back a serial killer.That is where the good ended. This movie was a total waste of time. The story was confusing(granted doing any time traveling movie, something is going to get screwed up) the acting was appalling, the sound was terrible, and this was supposed to be an effects heavy film, which it was, but the effects were dismal, I could have done the effects! I have to let some of this go, because it was so bad. They said we have recreated Wellington 1893 WOW! Yeah all Wellington 1893 was is a 2D picture background and filming in front of it! You didn't recreate anything! And you use rain effects, you should try to make it look the environment is effected by the rain, not a single drop gets on anything but the guy shows up at the door soaking wet! The "time traveling portal": every time when used and someone comes out the other side, the effect makes part of the actors heads disappear. I felt really bad for the director who was in attendance, seeing that on screen. And I know that Mitsubishi sponsored this movie, but do you have to use every chance you had to promote them. ZOOM in on cool "moped" of the future "Hmmmm, I wonder who makes that? Oh its Mitsubishi!" Have some dignity.I cant think of any redeeming qualities for this film. Let me just say not everything that comes out of NZ is made by Peter Jackson.