the leading man is my tpye

Good start, but then it gets ruined

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Watching the first 5 minutes of this movie, you might think it was a dark comedy, but the comedy quickly vanishes and it becomes a predictable movie that then becomes a confused wreck.There is a lot of nudity and a lot of implied sex scenes. There's some blood Some shooting Some cursing Sadly, the plot needed a little help. This had promise, and could have been a good movie, but no...it's notSpoilers:So the main character was born to a boxer and an average woman; we see through flashback that the guy's dad was a womanizer and his parents separated. He wished to be everything his Dad wasn't. Okay, I'll follow with this. Then we learn that the main character has hooked a hottie, who all we know about her is that she is a great girl to take to bed as we see snippets of her and him going at it...nothing more. Nothing about her is ever explained. He does explain that in order to keep her, he proposes to her. One day, she says she wants to know what he will look like when he is old and fat, so he decides to take her to see his Dad in southern Spain. Meanwhile, he loses his job and worries about losing her. So they arrive in Spain and get to hang out at his Dad's house (he is working - which we later see, work is a courier for cocaine dealers). Anyway, they decide to go out one night to a swanky/seedy club where you just know something is going to happen. She throws out that his fiancé is the son of the boxer and this apparently gets them admission and special treatment at the club, including the shady club owner giving them both a pill. Now at this point, what would any normal person do? Take the pill from a guy you know nothing about and only met 2 minutes ago, or would you not take the pill? Sorry, I just lose sympathy for characters when their dumb decision- making process is the root of the entire plot.Anyway, long story short, he loses track of the girl and there's a thin attempt by the plot makers to make it seem like a giant conspiracy - the club owner, people at the club all pretend that they never saw his girl. That plot point disappears quickly though.The guy ambles around southern Spain and just happens to find people who were at the club that night. It just so happens that one of the guys had a sister kidnapped as well.We learn that the kidnapper is the "White Arab," a Russian who converted to Islam to escape an Iraqi prison and now owns a yacht where he has a harem of other kidnapped women who serve as his sex-slaves. I know what you're thinking, "I've seen this movie, except it was called Taken." Well, the main character is hardly a bad-ass. Far from it. When he enlists the help of the guy who had a sister kidnapped, that guy does all the shooting, including taking down the Russian. There's some plot line about his Dad becoming a good man and trying to save the girl but the main character gets confused and ends up beating him up...at this point, you don't care though.

There's a lot not to like about this movie. It is advertised as an exploitation movie, but it resembles the exploitation movies of the 1970's, just enough sex and violence to cover a two minute trailer. It also tries, but mostly fails to give the lead character much depth and realism.That said, it does a couple of things nicely. We do care about the lead female character and we do feel fear and concern when she is "taken." (Did "Taken" copy the phrase from this movie which was two years earlier?) Also, we do feel a sense of despair for the plight of the lead male character, who is helpless, but not really stupid (until near the end). There is some originally in the plotting, For example, the villain is a psychopathic Russian Muslim convert who doesn't kill people during the Ramadam fasting month. Tell me where you have seen that before? The cinematography and editing are commercially slick. It is nicely done for an ultra-low budget movie like this.One can't blame the filmmakers for disguising the film as an exploitation flick. A more honest description would be "an Albert Camus inspired existentialist meditation on the difficulty of holding onto love in the postmodern capitalist world." Probably, nobody would have seen it if they had advertised the film this way.

This tawdry, low-budget version of the Liam Neeson vehicle TAKEN makes the latter movie look like the Cadillac of the almost-deflowered-by-a-sheik genre. One must resist saying SLAVE qualifies as the Yugo in this category, since that would be unfair to Eastern European car makes. Almost every turn in SLAVE's plot is an implausible twist. Most lines of dialog fall flat. If the acting in SLAVE was passable, one could decry this feature as a waste of talent. Fortunately, the cast appears perfectly suitable to the low production values of everything they are given to work with. If I were forced to come up with a few DVD jewel box phrases that might amplify whatever SLAVE's title says to entice potential viewers into renting, I might try "pretentious claptrap" or "unmitigated boredom." There is probably a segment of the movie-watching public to whom these adjectives would sound appealing. My guess is that these masochists vastly outnumber those who would knowingly watch SLAVE if they were given a half-way accurate view of how miserable this feature actually is beforehand.

No reviews for this yet? There must be a lot of lucky people out there, then. I supposes it's up to me to warn them the general public about another straight to DVD piece of crap. *Cracks knuckles* Okay, sounds like a sexy set-up, doesn't it? A guy takes his pretty fiancée to Spain to meet his gangsta father, but before they can see each other she ends up getting drugged and abducted in a seedy night-club. Then, she is spirited away to a yacht belonging to a perverted Muslim (Why is it never a Jew or a Christian?) where they intend to use her as a sex slave. Her distraught beau can't get any assistance from his criminal papa, so he teams up with a hairy trailer trash bloke who's sister was similarly kidnapped by these traffickers, to storm the boat and recover his gal. However, daddy has a change of heart later on, which leads to complications and tragedy..Okay, now let me stop you right there. Now, looking at the description above, you're probably imagining all manner of seedy goings on, ain't ya? Well sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but what perversions occur in this movie are fragmented at best, and are so laughably depicted you're more likely to be in hysterics rather than getting off to them. Yes, the director actually expects us to give a hill o' beans about this stupid thriller plot, which has been done a hundred times before and a hell of a lot better than here. In the sparse 80 minute running time we see plenty of the main character running around like a loon for 90% of the length, then we get the final bloody climax and BANG it's over. I was so engrossed I almost turned over in my sleep.One of these days they'll make an uncompromising dramatic film where they will possibly go all the way in explaining just what WOULD happen to a pretty white girl if she was captured in another country and forced into prostitution. Until then, we'll have to made do with this fantasy version of fat blokes in colourful shirts and impossibly beautiful models where they combine it with a cheap action movie script and end up with.. not much at all. BORING. Oh and next time, get a cast that can act, will you? 2/10