Marva
It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,
djcoreyp2003
The Mangler Deux was one of the best movies I have ever seen. Going into the movie I had no idea what it was about, and now I do. Why did this movie go straight to video? It should have been a red carpet summer blockbuster!!! It would have been the feelgood hit of the year!!! I guess it is just a sleeper, maybe in the year 3029 The Mangler Deux will finally be recognized as a film making masterpiece. I don't really know who was in the movie, who produced or directed it, hell, I don't even know what day it is. One thing I do know is, The Mangler Deux will make you want to do huge dramatic jump fly kicks, and cast wizard spells on drunken sprites. Apparently they are making a sequel to The Mangler Deux. I don't know the name of the title, but I hope it is The Mangler Thrice. Hold on to your cowboy hats, it's gonna be a wild ride!!!!!
Tim
I saw this movie on Cinemax one night and just couldn't keep my eyes open. It sucked so bad. Bad plot, bad portrayal of computers. This is the kind of movie that made people who saw hackers think they're 1337 h4x0rs. I didn't expect much at all because i can usually tell a "cable quality made movie" from a big screen quality movie. You can usually tell by the cheesy midi quality "suspenseful" synthesizer music, and the really really overdone acting. Id give this a 1 out of 10.
ajbo
I just rented this film two days ago, and got around to watching it last night. It's not as bad as people say it its, it doesnt deserve this bad of a wrap. Farfetched? Yea Horrible? No, it has an interesting plot and the acting isnt half bad, and face it people we dont need a freakin gore fest to have a good movie *Helloo Halloween?!* Onto the review...The Plot: A Disturbed girl, Jo Newton, breaks into her father's office and plans to download a virus onto her Father's computer. All goes well until the alarm goes off, and she bolts. Her father ends up catching her and as a punishment sends her back to her Private School, where everyone is getting back from Spring Break. Jo isnt exactly what you would call popular, although her father donates INCREDIBLE amounts of money to the school, yet Jo only has about four friends. So Headmaster Bradeen decides to add an incredibly high-tech security systme, all controlled from one computer. Before he does this, he sends all students but five onto their geography trip, guess who the five that stay back are...Well Jo gets mad at everyone and downloads a virus called Mangler 2.0 onto the school's System, which in the end wreaks havoc on the entire school and soon, begins Killing off the remains one by one...The Acting: It's a DTV, get over it, the acting isnt gonna be Award Winning Material. Although it wasnt horrible either. The Actress who stood out for me was Daniella Evangelista, not only was she a good actress and plays "Bitch" very well, but was great Eye-Candy. Chelsea Swain was all right, she handled her role well even though she's not the best cryer, but she did what she could...as for the others they did ok, the Stoner, African American Guy and Boyfriend were all about the same, they did what they could, the Chef was good for Comic Relief and also did what he could, the other teachers, electrician and Bradeen were all on the same level. It's a surprise that Lance even did this. He went from Scream 3 to doing DTV Films...?Blood & Gore: There's really nothing but some blood spatter here. Some guy gets his skin peeled off by scaulding water, some other guy gets his hacked up by Hedge Clippers (Held By Computer Wires...?) Another falls down a flight of stairs and gets his head chopped off by a Fire Ax, Another woman gets her hair caught in a Fax Machine and has her hair ripped out, then theres an electrocution, hanging, and a guy gets crushed in the bleachers. As bloody as this all sounds, most of it is Off-Screen.Directing: The Director of this film wasnt that bad for a First Time Director. He did fairly well for his first time. Different angles and the Night Vision angles and Security Camera angles were pretty cool, so over all it was a pretty decent film. Nothing to get scared over, but just a fun film to watch on a night with friends.ALSO ive heard numerous reports of a Glitch on the DVD where a scene is cut out, i didnt see this. After an Un-Named Character dies in the bleachers, it's obvious all the others run out of the gym and out to the field, it's not that hard to understand, unless im missing something or something i dunno, but i didnt find any "Glitch".OVERALL the film was decent, dont rent it if you want to be scared shytless, but just for pure fun. Its a refrshing installment into the Slasher Genre, something we havent really seen before. I Give Mangler 2 an 8/10, talks of a Mangler 3 and 4 have been heard, i wonder...