Devil's Revenge

Great acting by William Shatner. I almost thought he was impersonating my dad for a minute. as always he really sells his character. Unfortunately though the director was not quite as talented and the editor even less so. Post production team gets a D. I really felt like the Director and the Editor didn't care about the final result of all of the effort that went into the rest of the movie. the director didn't spend much time writing a script, and the other actors didn't do much in the way of ad-lib, but that is neither here nor there. It could be saved, but it needs a new score and a re-edit, which i'd like to personally do, because with some modifications this movie could have actually been scary.

A down-on-his-luck archaeologist returns from a cave expedition that contains a cursed relic that's also a portal to Hell. He discovers that the only way to stop the curse on his family is to go back to the cave and destroy the relic. Is that enough reason to watch this movie? What if I told you that William Shatner plays his dad? Now you're in, right? What if they threw in Jeri Ryan, Seven of Nine herself, for you lovers of Star Trek? Now you're hooked, huh? John Brock is an archaeologist who returns from an expedition through the caves of rural Kentucky. He's been looking for the same mysterious relic his family has been hunting for generation. But now, he's haunted by dream-like visions of a ferocious bird-like creature from ancient folklore. Now, he know she must take his family back to the cave, find the relic and destroy it. Ever since American stars started making Italian and Japanese films, I've always loved when they do scenes that have them alone, talking on the phone and not connected to any of the characters in the movie that they're in. This movie follows suit. That said - the monsters are awesome and Shatner is as crazy as you want him to be. I dream of the day that he and Nicholas Cage get to emote together in a movie that makes even less sense than this one.

This is an amazing movie. Probably the best ever, made and yeah it is amazing. It really is not as bad as they say it is. It really tries hard to be a good movie with a very small budget. It is interesting. If you like low budget movies it is worth a shot.

Granted, when I stumbled upon this 2019 movie titled "Devil's Revenge", I was initially intrigued. So I picked it up and saw that William Shatner was in it, and I must admit that whatever hopes I had for the movie started to dim. But still, I decided to give the movie a chance and sat down to watch it. Turn out that my expectations of this movie not being anything grand came to be. This movie was fairly bland and actually rather mundane and pointless. The storyline was essentially to blame here, because director Jared Cohn wasn't really giving the audience much in terms of a proper script or storyline. What did work for the movie was the special effects and the design of the demonic creatures. I liked those. But sadly they could only do so much to salvage the rest of the movie, which was somewhat of a swing and a miss. As for the acting, well you shouldn't get your hopes up. And truth be told, it was just toe-curling to watch William Shatner in a movie such as this, holding a grenade launcher and shooting demonic creatures up close and personal with some dubious and questionable CGI effect explosions. I managed to endure the entire movie, although I can't claim that I was entertained. And this is not a movie that I will be watching a second time. My rating of "Devil's Revenge" is a mere three out of ten stars.

A terrible movie by any measure. Direction and editing created immense stretches of shots that add to the already far too long play time. Although probably meant to give the illusion of a long travel, it rather cemented in reality how terribly far Devil's Revenge had to travel to be a good movie. Extremely irritating plot holes that are left to fester for the entire movie, and plot pieces that seemingly had nothing to do with the main plot at all. People are disappear and people just appear in the movie without any explanation whatsoever. We have time to explore caves and rivers, but no time to explore rationality. I suppose maybe transporters were used? Why not, if it is up to our imaginations and does not have to be rational: so be it. Shatner has a strange rant that I replayed several times... and I still have no idea what he was going on about. He was passionate, and Kirk swears, which I thought was very funny! Other than that; I gave up trying to figure it out. I simply didn't actually care what his character was trying to convey with his fathers heirloom shotgun... that he keeps in a dirty stable. Very flimsy plot pieces with flimsy connections throughout. White actors playing Aztecs? Aztecs with a shrine in a Kentucky cave system. Conquistadores... really? Direction: I am not sure their was any direction. Yes, we did realize Jeri Ryan was driving in circles in a parking lot for an entire scene. Rather easily actually. The best actor in this movie was the Recreational Vehicle. RV played such a convincing filthy and dilapidated Southwind that I nearly wept. Even "Riff Trax" will probably pass on this movie... Shatner or not. You should too.

I thought some entertainment could've been found here, but no! An absurd script beyond stupid, poor directing, unlikable characters you don't care for, utterly cheap special effects and backwoods locations make this a complete waste of time. William Shatner was kinda funny playing the over the top soldier-dad, and it was nice to see Jeri Ryan aka Seven of Nine again. Although I like Star Trek and appreciated to see 2 of it's characters in a totally different production, there isn't anything else Devil's Revenge has to offer.

Well what can yah say about a movie that looks like a 15 yr kid wrote and directed it. The special effects are not that special at all. They say the "F" word so much its redundant. I mean it's just a big pile of super hot garbage. And the acting is no exception!!!! So my final thought is Watch, if you want a story that's half way better than this!!

Horrible movie. Made no sense. And poor William Shatners performance was flat. Too much unneccesary death and destruction. Worst ending ever. Did he die before it all happened, or was it all his mind? Just too many unanswered questions.

Oh yeah. Look out for the scene in the woods where they're travelling to the cave. They used a stunt double for Shatner. A stunt double. For him walking around.