A Los Angeles police chase sends a fame-obsessed man on a wild ride to save his girlfriend from a cybernetic terror.
Once again we didn’t have to wait long for a new addition, just a year after the release of the second film we got a third.
By now we the viewer know what to expect and fans of the series had high expectations as the past 2 releases were smash hits for the studios, so to reach this third installation and be as disappointed with it as I was, as were many others, is just saddening.
I just don’t understand it really, the quality in story telling and the ideas of the segments themselves just drop so dramatically from the two previous films and I just can’t wrap my head around it, what went wrong? Was it studio intervention? Was it too many ideas thrown together? What happened?!
I hate to criticize a film so much but this entry in the franchise hasn’t got a saving grace to its name, not one. The stories are uninspired and the film itself is edited so awkwardly that it can become a literal headache to watch at times, it’s like they gave that job to someone who had no clue what they were doing.
It’s such a shame really when you consider the amount of potential that’s out there that could’ve stepped up to the plate and helped deliver stories with impact and more as we’ve seen in other features. It’s a shame that the series ended on a whimper like this.
Was this film so bad that it ended a franchise bursting with potential, we’ll never know unless someone high up tells us, but if it is true then I’m not surprised. Yeah, it’s that bad.
Miscellaneous facts about the film:
Rob Zombie was set to direct, but couldn’t agree with the studio on how the story should proceed, so he stepped down.
Lily from the segment “Amateur Night” from V/H/S (2012) can be seen in the distorted/scrambled camera phone images during the wraparound segment.
Todd Lincoln’s segment, “Gorgeous Vortex,” can be found after the credits for the main film end.
The music used at the end of the movie is not opera, as it is described in the closed captions. It is Beethoven’s 9th Symphony 4th Movement in D Minor.
In the scene towards the end, inside the ice cream truck, one of the cameras displays a scene from the Safe Haven segment from V/H/S/2 (2013).
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