Awaken
(2015/Arc DVD)
Picture:
B- Sound: B- Extras: D Film: C-
The
main ingredient to any good B movie are of course B movies actors.
Awaken, as cheesy as a title as that is, surely has plenty of
names that you haven't heard in a while. Jason London, Edward
Furlong, Darryl Hannah, and Vinnie Jones to name a few along with the
actress/writer Natalie Burn who was in the latest Expendables film
and you have a B-movie soup ready to be boiled.
There
isn't one original thing about this film in terms of story - it's as
if someone watched Predators and King Kong with a splash of The
Expendables and made it into a horror film. Here's the official
plot summary: Billie Kope is searching for her
sister who disappeared in Mexico, awakens on a remote island with no
memory of her abduction. She teams up with a group of survivors,
where her skills in Russian Special Forces combat help them resist
sinister black operations soldiers who hunt them down and abduct them
for reasons unknown. For Billie, the mystery of the island is
ultimately connected to the fate of her missing sister and one which
when uncovered, will bring violence down on not only the island but
the perpetrators of this bizarre and diabolical scheme in continual
need of fresh victims to awaken.
The
standard definition transfer is fine for DVD in anamorphic 16 X 9
widescreen and a lossy Dolby Digital track mastered in 5.1 surround
sound. There are optional subs on the disc as well.
No
extras on the disc.
-
James Harland Lockhart V
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