Breakinger
A Brilliant Conflict
SanEat
A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."
Billy Ollie
Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
bowmanblue
Sometimes you watch a film which doesn't really know what it is. You'll find the odd drama which sways heavily into comedy and then back again, leaving the viewers wondering what they're actually watching.'Botched' is indeed a 'multi-genre' film, however, it's dabblings in various genres does appear intentional. And, better still, it works.When I first heard about 'Botched' I thought it was about a bank robbery that goes wrong. The reason being that that's how it's billed. The promotional material doesn't really go on much from saying how a trio of thieves try to pull off a heist in Russia (with disastrous consequences). That makes it sound like a simple heist movie (or crime caper). However, what you may or may not know is that what transpires into everything from a slasher film to a madcap, tongue-in-cheek farce.The trio of bank robbers do indeed get more than they bargained for, but not from the authorities. The hostages they attempt to capture have more than a few skeletons in their closets, but even they pale in comparison to who's waiting for them on an abandoned floor of the building they're trying to escape from with the loot.It's hard to say who this film will appeal to, as it crosses so many genres. But, if you're generally into heads being severed and bodies being hung up and sliced at the waist (while at the same time trying not to laugh at the cheesiness of it all) you should be pleasantly surprised.Special mention to Geoff Bell who steals ever scene in his 'alpha male' persona.
trashgang
When I saw the cover on the DVD for the first time it didn't do anything, I thought it was on to throw away. Man, was I wrong. After seen some reviews it was time to watch it. Didn't watched the summary on the back of the DVD box so it came as a surprise. It starts off with a robbery and things get wrong when an accident occurred. Still nothing to mention, then the main lead got a new assignment, get a cross in Moscow. So far nothing happens, but what happens next is to say the least funny. But the fun ends when a hostage has to be released, things got wrong, and the blood flows, and it flows. Sometimes in a gory way because it's supposed to be a comedy. All actors are believable and they all have their failures to laugh about. Some viewers complained about the storyline but don't worry, even as it is a bit stupid it works really well, because at the end of the day, it's still a comedy. I've seen, and as you knew me, the uncut version. Go get yourself a copy, you will be surprised what goes wrong.
JoeytheBrit
Clearly filmed on a micro-budget, this horror-comedy manages to deliver an entertaining story by never taking itself seriously for one moment. I didn't know a thing about this movie, and was expecting a heist movie so you can imagine my surprise when, twenty minutes in, one of the hostages taken by hapless jewel thieves Ritchie (stephen Dorff), Peter (Jamie Foreman) and Yuri (Russell Smith) is unexpectedly decapitated by a pair of giant shears. The story gets more hectic and bizarre from this moment on, and while some of the intended laughs fall wide of the mark, the frantic pace means there's little time for reflection over those misfires.For my money, Jamie Foreman - who has been singled out by some reviewers as giving a bad performance - enlivens the film with his deliberately over the top performance as Peter, the violent psychopathic Russian gangster, and it's a shame that he's missing for a large chunk of the action. The ever dependable Jeff Bell also hits the mark as Boris, the woefully inept 'Alpha Male' security guard who falls victim to his own booby trap. The film grows dafter as it builds to an ultra-violent conclusion, but that is always its intention, and if you leave the viewing grumbling about it maybe you were in the wrong frame of mind when you started watching it?
fastpuppy
Botched is well titled and possibly the epitaph for Dorff's career if he has been reduced to this. Bad Russian accents done by a mostly z-list British cast (nice to see the girl from the Commitments working again) aside, to say that this is not a good film is an understatement that dwarfs all other understatements you have ever heard about movies. Bad acting, buckets of fake blood, 2 dimensional characters and a plot that is just plain stupid. It is the kind of low budget schlock usually reserved for film school dropouts looking to make a quick buck. People write that it's a comedy but it's just not funny on any level. How this got made and how I sat through so much of it is beyond me.
