Momentum
Picture: B-
Sound: B- Extras: D Film: C-
One of the more preposterous films we have seen lately is
James Seale’s Momentum (2003) with Louis Gossett Jr. as a government
official who wants to wipe out a group of organized telekinetic group and
faster than you can say Scanners, the hunt is on. That is unless a police investigator (Terry
Hatcher before she escaped this B-movie hell for Desperate Housewives)
figures some of these things out first.
There is the lone telekinetic Zachary (Grayson McCouch barely giving a
better performance than the lead in Cronenberg’s classic) and the same old
tired plot.
As if several Scanners sequels were not enough and
the remake on the way very likely to be a disaster; this is a mess. The effects are stupid, the acting tired,
made much more so by a very bad script and this is only being issued now
because Hatcher is a hot ticket thanks to Housewives. Maybe she can get Gossett a recurring role
on the show somehow to save him from more of this.
The anamorphically enhanced 1.85 X 1 image is not bad, as
shot by Maximo Munzi, with some good detail at times and a clean transfer. The Dolby Digital 5.1 mix is not bad, but
the sound effects for battles and explosions are very standard and boring. There are no extras. Skip this one unless you are looking for a
bad film.
- Nicholas Sheffo
