Bounty Killer could have easily been a good film had it just been given a real budget and been taken seriously instead of trying too hard to become something like a cult classic. It makes a poor attempt to mix action, adventure, comedy, a love story. It also fails to hit the mark while trying to replicate a comic book. Bounty Killer starts to make social commentary on capitalism and the dangers of corruption that can come with it, but it does not go far enough to drive home a point thus being unsuccessful.
Bounty Killer has poor acting and sub-par writing. On top of this, the storylines muddle to create an unnecessarily complicated plot that includes a half explored love story. The film fails to offer much character backstory when laying out the setting and overarching context for the film. In the middle of the story, as if to fill a hole, flashbacks are used to explain the tension between two of the main characters that up to this point had no apparent motivations for their actions and demeanor. Even then, the two main characters still have almost no emotion, and their dialogue usually just falls flat. Had someone invested real time and creativity into producing what could have been a unique premise, there would be a film with a good setting, a pleasing aesthetic style, top notch writing and impactful direction.…show more content… The end result is something too serious for a spoof and too goofy for a legitimate action movie. Having low budget effects and using excessive gore it distracts from the actual action sequences. Relying too much on the success of other post-apocalyptic stories, this movie does not do near enough to create a unique setting or plot. Rather than doing anything to pull the audience in, it comes across as just a mash-up of pre-existing tropes. With neither a good underlying story nor enticing action scenes, the film overall delivers the audience little purpose of finishing
