The Age of Commercialism

best movie i've ever seen.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

it saddens me that this visually stylish, unique and adrenaline fueled flick gets so little recognition and respect. Admittedly the plot could have been a bit more rounded and ironed out, and the amount of characters running around could have been reduced a little to avoid confusion, but I feel there is still a lot of merit and enjoyment to be found in this little flick.The story is actually two separate stories, threaded to each other via one of the central characters, who is not what they seem. The beginning of the second story starts where the first one left off, they have just chosen to show them happening simultaneously, which does become a bit muddled sometimes, but you just have to keep track of what characters exist in what storyline and it will be all clear. The narrative has a complex psychological revelation in the end that some ignorant, ADD-ridden fools around here have labeled as ''incoherent and unwatchable''. Get real or go back to your summer cardboard cutout blockbusters , guys. God forbid you should have to use your reasoning and creative thinking skills to decipher an enigmatic plot line for yourselves.The acting is mostly great, except for the blow the film suffers from Cory Large, who is seriously lacking in that department and it really shows unfortunately. Costas Mandylor, Danny Trejo, Tom Sizemore, Susan Ward, Charity Shea, Paul Johanssen, are all excellent, and look out for cameos from Nick Chinlund, Ron Jeremy, C. Thomas Howell, Lochlyn Munro, Steven Bauer, and more. All in all a very good movie with some unique ideas, stark, psychological images and a reputation that is unfair to it to say the least. see it!

The description on the back of the DVD box is a bold faced lie! This is not a high octane thriller. It's about as high octane as tap water and about as thrilling as watching paint dry. There's no murderous rampage by a beautiful mental patient either. The character they are referring to spends the entire movie doing next to nothing.The only good thing I have to say about Toxic is that I enjoyed the color scheme and lighting. Everything else about it is bad.The director (apparently from the Quentin Tarantino school of film) is entirely too busy showing off to actually entertain his audience, replacing storytelling and plot with silly camera moves and script contrivances.Speaking of story and plot, there hardly isn't any worth mentioning, just too many characters (some of which are pointless) doing lots of mundane things centered around a sleazy strip club.The cast consists of a bunch of wasted cameos by various character actors and at least one each of rapper and porn star, who's collective performances are about as memorable as your first birthday.

Toxic was difficult to watch. Director Alan Pao loaded this one with special effects and jump cuts on too many scenes. In one part a janitor is mopping then the picture splits into an effect that makes it look there are 5 janitors with mops. It got more messy during action scenes. Someone went completely effect happy. It was to bad because the cast included Danny Trejo with Tom Sizemore. Two of my favorite character actors. After 20 minutes the effects were too much to bare. I used the menu to check out scenes later in the film to see if the effects stopped. They did not. I turned it off.Every one has different film tastes. For me this was a visual mess. It could be compared to being on a mushroom trip with the look of the picture. I can't recommend this one.

Before watching this movie I knew nothing really about it. Having watched it, it's hard to describe what kind of film it really is. The best I can come up with is it's got elements of Pulp Fictions interlocking stories and John Cusack's film "identity" mixed into one very stylish looking but to me confusing film.The one part of the story revolves around a mob boss looking for his psychotic daughter who has just escaped from a mental institution. He gets two of his men to search the streets for her. The other part revolves around a strip club named "toxic" and the bar tender Sid.To me to make interlocking stories that work, both of them have to be interesting to watch. The story concentrating on looking for the mob bosses daughter moved along nicely with great performances all round especially from Danny Trejo. While on the other hand the Toxic strip bar storyline line moved along so slowly, I would have lost interest if it had not been for the consent switching between the two stories.I now come to the twist ending and I have to say while I got the basic idea, a lot of things just didn't fit right. When you do an ending like this film has, I like the film to make total sense. Not one that leaves you questioning characters actions.Anyway this might be one of those films you might have to watch a couple of times to really get it.I gave it a 5 because it's never really bad or really good. It's just hour and a half of standard entertainment. I think it's worth a watch.