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The Minion (aka Fallen Knight)
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by Walt Disney Video
Sales Rank: 74101
Price: $9.99
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On Christmas Eve 1999, two employees of the New York water company fall into a long-closed tomb beneath a water main. A Native American archaeologist (Françoise Robertson) discovers that the tomb contains the bones of a Templar, a sect of religious knights charged with protecting a golden key--the key to the bottomless pit in which the Antichrist is imprisoned. She's promptly attacked by the minion of the Antichrist, an ancient demon that possesses human bodies. Just as swiftly, she's defended by a hunky contemporary Templar, played by the increasingly craggy Dolph Lundgren. They concoct a plan to sink the key into a pit of toxic waste, and take off to a storage facility on her native reservation with the demon in hot pursuit, hopping from body to body. <I>The Minion</I> wastes little time in getting the action under way, but there's not a lot of imagination and almost no special effects. Lundgren intones such statements as "There is no joy in sin" and "Every human being I touch, I may have to kill," while a heavy-metal guitar wails on the soundtrack. Something of a cross between <I>The Hidden</I> and <I>End of Days</I>. <I>--Bret Fetzer</I>
Viewer Reviews
First of all, this film suffers from some really poor casting. My husband is part Native-American, and his entire family is Native, and I know what they look like. Excuse me, but the lead actress didn't look very Native American. Pardon my un-PC stance, but I think that actors should look like the races or cultures they are portraying unless they are portraying a person of mixed background! Also, Dolph Lundgren played a Russian, again. Why is he being typecast again as a Russian? He looks like a Scandinavian! Is it all because of "Rocky?"
I also didn't think he was convincing as the "good guy," and my husband, who is a D.L. fan, likes him when he plays the villain. I do have to admit though that Lundgren was the best actor from the bunch!
I didn't really have that much of a problem with this movie until the part when they have to get passports in like five minutes, then they fly to Canada, then to The Holy Land. Uhm, anyone who has traveled internationally or even to Canada knows you can't get passports that quickly, it is just impossible! This is when we started to really criticise the film. And what, they spent like two seconds showing the plane from the either the USA to Montreal or to Jerusalem or something for some reason. Why? Was that necessary? We're not that stupid, we know the budget for this film wasn't great -- couldn't they get a little more creative than this?
Alright, this film wasn't as bad as "The Thing Below," but it still wasn't that great. I'm only giving it three stars because of Dolph Lundgren. Case closed.
* Just wanted to note that reading over some of the other reviews, it appears this film actually had a budget of around $12,000,000??? Sounds impossible really, but that's what they've claimed! In this case, this film really does deserve less stars.
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