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A close friend of mine had seen this flick and told me he didn't like it because nothing really happens except a few murders that aren't that vicious after all. Finally it got released over here so I was able to watch it. Plugging it into the DVD player the opening credits said enough for me. This wasn't going to be a fast flick, the opening credits looked like those old seventies horrors. But it was labelled that it could be compared with Henry Portrait Of A Serial Killer (1986).
For me it started well but it slowed down after the first killing. I could follow Tony and I can think that the director was putting more towards the story than only a serial killer. If I look to the end credits you see that Tony just walks away with his murder spree due being living in a big city were nobody cares about anybody and nobody knows his neighbours any more nowadays.
The acting was rather okay especially Tony looked believable also due the clothes he was wearing and his bad teeth. The directing by Gerard Johnson was okay but there was a bit too much talking going on for me. There weren't really any effects used and it surely had a low budget look. But the brutality of Henry is missing. The creepy part of the TV being smashed on ones head for example in Henry is a thing that we doesn't have here. The killings are rather dull here in Tony. But people do talk about Tony and specialised UK mags did wrote reviews about it but for me it was missing something.
The DVD included two shorts were the short Tony is one to see. In fact it's just the same story as in the full feature, only the full feature goes further with the story of course. It's so recognisable the situation going on but for a geek like me it could have gone a bit further.
Gore 0/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 0/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 0/5
score 5/10
trashgang 7 March 2012
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23-11-2020 02:27:09