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Title: Intermedio
Format: DVD
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Publisher: Timeless Media Group
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Review of Intermedio

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• Posted on 2009-11-17
  Such a near miss.
  
  I have such mixed feelings about this movie. When it is great it is truly amazing and when it it is bad (which is often) it is amazingly bad. What's good? Everyone in the cast. Edward Furlong is much better than the material he is given to work with as is Cerena Vincent. Steve Railsback is mostly wasted getting very little to do other than break light bulbs. The cast really gives their all and each turns in an admirable performance. The "intermedios" are really effective and creepy. The minimal music score is decent. The story is original and fairly interesting. What's bad? The editing, the sound, the directing, and some truly sloppy visual effects. Astoundingly bad at times. I had such high hopes for this movie after seening an incredible looking trailer for it on some other Asylum film (which are always pretty hit or miss) and much of the movie lives up to my expectations. When this movie is doing its job right it truly soars but then it soon comes crashing down below rock bottom and the viewer is left wondering how did they think they could get by with this? With just a little more work this thing could have been a real work of art and a genuinely creepy little independent horror film. Sadly, there are just too many technical problems (sound in particular but video quality is also substandard) and editing mistakes to forgive. I think it is worth watching but I feel very sad about what a missed opportunity it is. It should have been so spectacular and it never comes near its potential. It's the cinematic equal of a chocolate sundae topped with a dog turd instead of a cherry.
  
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• Posted on 2009-05-22
  Could have been good, but... isn't.
  
  Intermedio (Andrew Lauer, 2005)
  
  Poor Edward Furlong. He started his career with a wonderful turn in Terminator 2, then immediately descended into obscurity, taking crap roles to pay the bills. Seven years later, he rose to prominence again with a fantastic turn in American History X. Here is a kid who'd been given a second chance. And what happened? I'm not entirely sure, but he's back to taking crap roles to pay the bills. And my oh my, Intermedio is the king of crap roles. This makes Detroit Rock City look like Oscar material.
  
  Furlong plays Malik, a pot-smoking roustabout who attempts to make a living as a farmer in the southwest. He has a special bond with his childhood friend Gen (Cabin Fever's Cerina Vincent)--the two of them were in a truck when their fathers went into a set of tunnels connecting America to Mexico and never came out. One day Gen's boyfriend Wes (Fashion Victim's Callard Harris) comes over with a plan: they can all head down to the border of Mexico, pick up $120,000 worth of pot for half the price, and all get rich. All they have to do is get meet the suppliers in some tunnels that run between America and Mexico... Malik and Gen jump at the chance to see if they can find out what happened to their fathers, though Malik's girlfriend Barbie (Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Amber Benson) is a bit more reserved. Of course, once they get down to the tunnels, it turns out to be a lot tougher than anyone figured. And who's that kid Wes keeps seeing?
  
  This could have been quite a flick; the setting is great, there are some decent actors (Steve Railsback also makes an appearance towards the end), and you gotta love ghosts-in-tunnels movies. It lacks a great deal, though, and much of that can be placed squarely at the feet of actor-turned-director Andy Lauer; really, do you need to know any more than that Lauer was the second unit director on Legion of the Dead? (The Courtney Clonch flick, if you end up needing to look it up at IMDB. You can find my review of that one elsewhere on Amazon.) But there's one scene here that really outlines what's wrong with it. It would be a spoiler to completely describe the scene, but you'll know it when you see it. The special effects in the film up to that point had been ranging between competent and crap, but this particular scene, in which one character gets split in half, has CGI so terrible that it's laughable. And the aftermath is even worse. That a director, or anyone else involved with the movie, would be willing to settle for leaving such a terrible scene in a movie says a great deal about it. If the movie's connections don't respect the viewers, why should the viewers respect the final product? *
  
  
  
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• Posted on 2009-03-21
  Almost sad
  
  I was almost sad for Edward Furlong in this film. He has really gone down hill. If you like "B" movies then this one is O.K.
  
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