All Superheroes Must Die (2013)

I am not sure why so many people are posting negative reviews about All Superheroes Must Die. Making a movie is not easy, especially when you don't have a budget. So I commend Jason Trost and everyone involved with this movie. All SuperHeroes Must Die is by any means not a great movie. In Fact it is mediocre at best. however with that being said, it definitely isn't a bad movie as many of these 1 reviews state. Of course film is subjective, the film is a serviceable take on the superhero genre without any money. Sure it has it's problems, but what film doesn't? I recommend this movie on the simple fact that it did what it was suppose to do, Entertain me. After all isn' that why we watch movies?

After watching the trailer for the film this strangely caught my curiosity. I read a review online suggesting that I checked it out, giving it all sorts of praises. This was the first and probably only time that I've ever gotten angry at a review.I swear to Christ, this was the absolute WORST movie that I've ever seen in my entire life. It is worse than The Room, Plan 9 from outerspace, or even trolls 2. At least those three films were humorous so while indirectly, it had an appeal. A reason to watch them, and a reason to enjoy watching them.The director had absolutely no idea what he was doing. The character development was so bad that if a character died I might have actually gained a slight amount of excitement because that means the story is one step closer to ending.The director apparently constantly tore pages of the script due to budget concerns. This needed to have been dealt with BEFORE shooting. A script needs to go through AT LEAST four drafts. Many of which need to be rewritten for story purposes, fixing mistakes(not necessarily grammatical, but relationships, dialogues, and characters themselves) and the last few drafts being edited for budget concerns.A certain aspect of filmmaking is about compromise. Compromising with what you have, and if you don't have a big budget then for the love of God, please don't try to act like your story is bigger than what it was. I seriously cannot understand the appeal for films like this. I've often seen people online saying how they enjoy superhero movies, especially the much smaller low-budget ones.Go watch the 2010 James Gunn film Super starring Rainn Wilson and Ellen Page. That's a low-budget superhero film done right. 2009's Defendor. Anohter low-budget superhero film done right. These such films are movies that didn't try to be anything else other than what it was. The cast worked with what they had, and the directors knew the art of filmmaking well enough to at least make a halfway decent film.The premise seems slightly creative, the first scene seemed like it would be promising but it just fell flat as if the director went "Y'know what, **** it. Let's just make up new obstacles. The first idea is put into the movie" I mean the "creativity" of this so called "mastermind" villain was so poorly done that I actually lost complete interest for any kind of unique "traps" the heroes could face.Were these people ever truly superheroes? Because they did their job pretty badly. The "shocking"(and I say shocking in quotations out of pure sarcasm) revelation about one of the characters just makes the viewer feel annoyed or even frustrated.This film is directed, starred, and produced by the same person. He clearly had no freaking idea what he was doing and was completely in over his head. This film is among the ranks of student films and fan films on YouTube. The fact that it even got anywhere is astounding. The fact that people actually like this is even more astounding. If you're thinking of seeing this movie, you should probably just watch a bunch of little kids playing "Superhero" because it's probably a lot more entertaining and creative than this piece of trash.

What looks like a fascinating concept on paper is executed in villainously poor fashion in All Superheroes Must Die, a micro-budget thriller that twists almost every convention of the oversaturated genre, but is drastically let down by innumerable plot holes, a jagged script and empty performances all round. Sick to death of playing the speed bump to the good guys and their well-meaning plans, supervillian Rickshaw (James Remar) has knocked out and stolen the powers of Charge (Jason Trost), Shadow (Sophie Merkley), Cutthroat (X-Men First Class' Lucas Till) and The Wall (Lee Valmassy), the town's four resident superheroes. Meanwhile, he has rigged several town landmarks – and many more innocent civilians – to explosives, meaning the heroes have no choice but to play by his wicked rules.Directed and written by lead actor Trost, the film can never seem to decide between being a serious look at the sacrifices made to be a hero, or a tongue-in-cheek satire of the suspension of disbelief required by the genre. It constantly flexes between sharp, intimate flashbacks showing the closeness of the group before becoming superheroes, and incredulously over-the- top delivery from Remar and Sean Whalen – as side villain Manpower – none of which hit their mark.The rest of All Superheroes Must Die is a mish-mash of unexplained plot points and unprovoked character turns. The story jumps regularly, giving the impression that a short shoot forced pages to be ripped out of the script at will. And while some films of this nature do a fantastic job of stretching the production value, Superheroes looks every bit like a low budget cellar dweller, doing little to mitigate a collection of lacklustre individual parts, forming an utterly forgettable shell of an intriguing idea. *There's nothing I love more than a bit of feedback, good or bad. So drop me a line on [email protected] and let me know what you thought of my review. If you're looking for a writer for your movie website or other publication, I'd also love to hear from you.*

The plot, characters, and acting are terrible. I have seen plenty of bad movies and I can enjoy most for one reason or another but I can't find anything redeemable about this film, at all. It barely even deserves to be a called a film. The camera work is shoddy at best so you are stuck watching a mix of "shaky cam" poor angles. I think the bad angles and shaky cam were purposely used so you would question whether or not a particular character was portrayed by an actor you're familiar with. I don't think there are any special effects in this movie which isn't a bad thing for a regular movie but for superhero movie they are a necessity. I don't just mean CGI either, I mean makeup effects, squibs, anything. What does that tell you though, a comic book/superhero movie with zero practical or computer effects? The answer to that should be avoid at all costs. If all that wasn't bad enough the script is terrible. I'd be surprised to learn that a script was actually present on set at any given time and this wasn't just made up as they went along. It lacks a sensible ending as well. The ending just sets up a scene and more nonsensical story, the town is supposed to blow up and then roll credits. They couldn't afford to blow a miniature or make a bad CGI shot so they just rolled credits instead. I would write a review in more detail but it is painful to try and dig up the memories of watching this filth. Also this movie was so awful and low budget I would not be surprised to find out that they would take blurbs from an IMDb review to put on it's DVD box.