Murder-Set Pieces (2004)

- written August 11th, 2010

Summary: Set against Sin City, Las Vegas, "Murder-Set-Pieces" tells the story of a fashion photographer whose vocation is murder - a voyeuristic nightmare of blood, sex and brutality.           Overall: Well the film really wants to go out of its way to a bloody, gory, controversial film. And it succeeds in doing so. That doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a good film however.           You get some very obvious and yet controversial things going on here: Nazi’s, Nazi sex, Nazi torture, rape, more torture, killing of children, etc. It’s almost sooo much, that it doesn’t seem to flow properly as opposed to it seems like the writer/director wanted to come up with every reason to offend movie-going folks and shove it all in there at once. It sure is bloody, sure is gory. And if you’re looking for all that, you got it here. It’s happy to announce that 30 characters are murdered and 55 gallons of blood are spilled.           The film has a really nice cult following amongst those who enjoy the excesses that the film seems to offer. But this is where I will take a different route. I found the film a little too disjointed. It’s all about shock and offending and I think the film still fails to be cohesive enough to figure out what the killer’s point is. The use of 9-11 footage was both unnecessary and ill-advised. It doesn’t work with the killer…it tries to work to make the film more offensive. Who knows when an appropriate time will be to use stock footage of our nation’s worst terror attack, since at least the Civil War…but using it here doesn’t advance the story. It serves only to try and be more offensive than it was the second before. I think the film goes so far out of its way to be a cult classic, an honor among gore-hounds, that it forgot the plot, it forgot the story, it forgot to have a point. On top of the really dark scenes at times where you struggle to pick up the actual action, the film just wasn’t as good as others make it out to be. One of my favorite web competitors, Fatally Yours, had a different take on the film, so read both and figure out who you align with.           Comparison: Inglourious Basterds meets Hostel

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