Warrior of Justice (1995)iMDB Rating: 3.5
Date Released : 4 November 1995
Genre : Action
Stars : Jorgo Ognenovski, Jorge Rivero, Richard Lynch, Shari Blum." />
Movie Quality : HDrip
Format : MKV
Size : 870 MB
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Review :
Wonderfully, the Worst Movie Ever Made
'Nuff said? Never. Though theflyingninja's review is right on point and possibly the best we could ask for with regard to people wanting to see a GOOD movie, I think this movie dares to be taken in a wider light. As a media studies and video production professor, I find this movie to be of great value. As one of the, if not THE, worst films ever made, it is a great example to learning shooters, directors, writers and actors of most of the things that you would NOT want to do with or to a production. When a production makes its mistakes so glaringly obvious, almost to the point of suggesting Ognenovski had done it on purpose, it becomes an almost iconic utility for a teacher who had never gotten into the rut of Citizen Kaning his students into cinematic submission.
"Warrior of Justice" aka "(the OTHER title that's on the DVD menu!)" is a visual cacaphony of jump cuts, bad angles, untrimmed edits, poor set design, under-acting, over-acting, pseudo-acting, poor lighting, bad writing and about 372 other issues that will become glaringly apparent once you see it. It deserves to BE the final exam for any film studies or video/film production concepts course. The list of specific mistakes would be so voluminous and constant that the students would need oxygen during a number of required intermissions during the test. It's so bad, it's tremendous! After showing a number of segments to one of my intro production classes, my students nearly demanded that I show them the rest of the film. I had never experienced such a reaction as deep and emotional as that even though I regularly show segments of good and mediocre films and stop them at particularly irksome points (to get them to watch it all on their own). I believe I wasn't able to finish the film with them that day, but their disappointment was alleviated when they realized they could buy copies of the film online for as much as $0.01. I think it had a confidence-building effect on them. They KNEW they could do better than this! I assured them that they could.
On another level, this film plays out some old and tired gender, race and other stereotypes that are the stuff that keeps a good media studies professor in good with the universe. From one-eyed villains (a la Disney, which loves to have their villains display some sort of "disability" - Captain Hook, Scar, et al) to one-dimensional tree-log-necked karate dudes, "WoJ" is an anti-joy to behold. One should only watch films like this under the supervision of a professional.
We could crush, kill and destroy "WoJ" in one easy, wispy blow if we wanted to. Again, theflyingninja review comes close. But we would be remiss if we did not see the value in repurposing films such as this for the highest good of all. After all, we've learned to popularize the process of food composting. Why not turn movies like "Warrior of Justice" into cinematic compost so that we can grow better filmmakers, videographers, storytellers and media critics? Just like Disney, my favorite whipping-rat, it would be a crime to pass up such an easy critical target.
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