Gymkata

As a guilty pleasure, it doesn't work. Not only does all the comical retardedness get sucked out in the first twenty minutes, but that perfect goofiness is just pulled out of the film by the palpable 80's hell, which is nonetheless not as aggressive as, say, Cool as Ice. The fairly successful (!) fight choreography is also a downright disappointment. The protagonist is more of an asshole than a funny asshole, and that's kind of how the whole thing comes off. What is downright horrific is most of the runaway action scenes, which are a montage of disproportionately (for an action movie) long shots that only cut off when all the characters have left, which mouthfucks the momentum hard, which brings us to the point – Gymkata is boring. So I hope it's not because my bar for guilty pleasure entertainment is set disproportionately high by Birdemic and The Asylum production studio. (12/05/2023)