Range 15 Review. I sat down to watch Range 15 expecting a good laugh. I mean who could resist an action comedy with zombies. That's a sure winner right?
The film just starts immediately, with the main character (a Sean William Scott clone) and his lawyer (William Shatner, what are you doing in this?) telling him why he ended up in jail. We are immediately shown a string of funny and insane jokes in a bar from shooting fellow pals to making out with a Keisha transvestite. OK we're getting the tone now. The film then goes on to introduce the heroes friends, a bunch of army misfits that constantly slag each other and tell non- stop homophobic jokes. One of them has a blow up doll attached to him, why never explained. Actually nothing is explained, after a few jokes that you don't get you start to think that maybe this is a sequel, I missed something. So after checking IMDb to see if the star of the film was related to Sean Scott Williams I discovered that he makes a Youtube show and you have to have been watching the Youtube show to get most of the jokes in this film. Then the bizarre happens and keeps happening. People pop up every now and then that you have no idea who they are and they're all pals with the gang of zombie killers. They crack jokes we don't get and have conversations we don't understand. Then you realize they are all army veterans and that this is a film made for army veterans, by army veterans and you have to be an American army veteran or enthusiast to get most of the jokes. So they just alienated 90% of the audience right there.
Another problem with this film is the constant homophobic jokes, one goes so far as to simulate a gay threesome and the gang fall around laughing because gay sex is hilarious and being gay makes you less than human and a laughing stock according to this film. One female character actually asks one of the team (who she constantly calls fat when he is not fat at all) does he know that 90% of what he says are infantile homophobic jokes to which he proudly responds yes and that's all you're gonna get from us, and the whole film. We can all laugh at things and ourselves every now and then but my god this film never lets up with the homophobic jokes, it's like Don't Ask Don't Tell is still in place and it's 1955.
After a bizarre scene where the team enter a town and kill some cartoon caricature gay people that are peeing on the American flag, some hipsters(?) and fitness enthusiasts, they enter a house where everyone has committed suicide with knives and house hold objects The joke here is that whiny liberal ant-gun people needed guns to kill themselves during the zombie apocalypse, no sleeping pills or other meds in the house then.
So that's basically the theme and message from the film, it's made for right wing, conservative army people and no one else. The film did have potential and some really funny scenes but was ruined by an overkill of crude offensive humour and army in jokes. The rivalry between the hero and his nemesis, a golden boy soldier that everyone loves and admires but is a complete jerk had lots of potential but only lasted a few scenes, then dissipated into nothing. This could have been the main focus of the film, his rivalry with this guy during the zombie apocalypse. There's also a very funny scene with Sean Austin flying a helicopter. One of the team is too honest when he discovers he has been bitten by a zombie.
The third act of the film dissolves into a surreal wrestling match with lots of gay and 'in' army jokes, it drags on for about fifteen minutes and Danny Trejo turns up to fight as well, but I was bored to death at that stage.
Range 15 is a bit like going out for the night and meeting your friend's drunk old buddies that tell lots of 'in' jokes and tell old stories that you know nothing about. You laugh along at first, but then they get a lot more drunk and start insulting people. You get uncomfortable and worried while they carry on the abusing people, and you have to apologize for their behavior. You can't wait for the night to end. When it does you avoid your friend like the plague and change your number.
The film just starts immediately, with the main character (a Sean William Scott clone) and his lawyer (William Shatner, what are you doing in this?) telling him why he ended up in jail. We are immediately shown a string of funny and insane jokes in a bar from shooting fellow pals to making out with a Keisha transvestite. OK we're getting the tone now. The film then goes on to introduce the heroes friends, a bunch of army misfits that constantly slag each other and tell non- stop homophobic jokes. One of them has a blow up doll attached to him, why never explained. Actually nothing is explained, after a few jokes that you don't get you start to think that maybe this is a sequel, I missed something. So after checking IMDb to see if the star of the film was related to Sean Scott Williams I discovered that he makes a Youtube show and you have to have been watching the Youtube show to get most of the jokes in this film. Then the bizarre happens and keeps happening. People pop up every now and then that you have no idea who they are and they're all pals with the gang of zombie killers. They crack jokes we don't get and have conversations we don't understand. Then you realize they are all army veterans and that this is a film made for army veterans, by army veterans and you have to be an American army veteran or enthusiast to get most of the jokes. So they just alienated 90% of the audience right there.
Another problem with this film is the constant homophobic jokes, one goes so far as to simulate a gay threesome and the gang fall around laughing because gay sex is hilarious and being gay makes you less than human and a laughing stock according to this film. One female character actually asks one of the team (who she constantly calls fat when he is not fat at all) does he know that 90% of what he says are infantile homophobic jokes to which he proudly responds yes and that's all you're gonna get from us, and the whole film. We can all laugh at things and ourselves every now and then but my god this film never lets up with the homophobic jokes, it's like Don't Ask Don't Tell is still in place and it's 1955.
After a bizarre scene where the team enter a town and kill some cartoon caricature gay people that are peeing on the American flag, some hipsters(?) and fitness enthusiasts, they enter a house where everyone has committed suicide with knives and house hold objects The joke here is that whiny liberal ant-gun people needed guns to kill themselves during the zombie apocalypse, no sleeping pills or other meds in the house then.
So that's basically the theme and message from the film, it's made for right wing, conservative army people and no one else. The film did have potential and some really funny scenes but was ruined by an overkill of crude offensive humour and army in jokes. The rivalry between the hero and his nemesis, a golden boy soldier that everyone loves and admires but is a complete jerk had lots of potential but only lasted a few scenes, then dissipated into nothing. This could have been the main focus of the film, his rivalry with this guy during the zombie apocalypse. There's also a very funny scene with Sean Austin flying a helicopter. One of the team is too honest when he discovers he has been bitten by a zombie.
The third act of the film dissolves into a surreal wrestling match with lots of gay and 'in' army jokes, it drags on for about fifteen minutes and Danny Trejo turns up to fight as well, but I was bored to death at that stage.
Range 15 is a bit like going out for the night and meeting your friend's drunk old buddies that tell lots of 'in' jokes and tell old stories that you know nothing about. You laugh along at first, but then they get a lot more drunk and start insulting people. You get uncomfortable and worried while they carry on the abusing people, and you have to apologize for their behavior. You can't wait for the night to end. When it does you avoid your friend like the plague and change your number.