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Danger, Dames and Dangerous Games
USA 2016
produced by Chelsea DeScenna, Lizzie Smith, Alexander Salazar
directed by Alexander Salazar
starring Justin Marshall Elias, Susan Gordon, Michael D. Anglin, Shanna Vincent, Robin Lee Canode, Christopher Heskey, Chelsea DeScenna, Benjamin Wood, Justin Lebrun, Emilio Rossal, Josh Perrault, Clay Chamberlin, Zachariah Nolde, Vinicio Espirite, Holly Edwards
written by Alexander Salazar, music by Mark Fraser, special makeup effects by Stephen Stepro
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Marvin (Justin Marshall Elias) is just a little bookkeeper at a blood
bank - when one night he sees his boss Huxley (Michael D. Anglin) sucking
dry one of his co-workers (Susan Gordon), vampire style. And when Huxley
becomes aware of Marvin he attacks him as well, but somehow Marvin can
kill him with his silver pen. This attracts the attention of the titular
dame (Shanna Vincent), two not quite law-abiding FBI agents, Dwayne (Robin
Lee Canode) and Nixon (Christopher Heskey), mob boss Falco (Emilio
Rossal), who happens to be the brother of the dame, and a green-faced
assassin (Benjamin Wood) - and for some reason all of these people either
want to kill him or two persuade him to go on a suicide mission to take
out the vampire king, and at times they change their intentions about what
ultimately to do with him quite frequently. But ... why Marvin? Seems he's
kind of the chosen one who has some magic powers to kill vampires and thus
might be able to free the world of the vampire curse. There are but two
problems: Marvin is not exactly a hero, and he has no idea how to control
his magic powers ... Danger, Dames, and Dangerous Games
is by no means an un-entertaining movie, in its best spots it's funny as
heck, it does feature some welcomely original ideas, and it has a
enjoyably light-footed, almost comicbook attitude to it. Unfortunately the
film is also at times pretty talky, is overburdened by story-ideas and
plottwists, and ultimately things are either too drawn out or don't make
much sense. Basically, one could have knocked a good 30 minutes off the
movie to make it much smoother. Because despite all my criticism, this
film actually looks mighty promising!
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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