MamaGravity good back-story, and good acting

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Stephanie There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Celia A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

alex (doorsscorpywag) Really looking forward to this as I like Madsen. Took years to eventually see it. What a turd of a film. Acting was so bad even lettuces could act more realistic. The 2 main women possibly are the worst actor/tress I have ever seen. None of it made any sense. None of the characters looked even remotely real or interested in what was going on whateverthehell it was that was going on. And I was really looking forward to this as I like Madsen a lot.Him and Stacy Keach must have had an urgent gas bill to pay. I can't believe any of the others were paid money as they were probably homeless people working for food and Roddy Piper who just wandered onto the set.After 5 years waiting to see it..... Words fail me.

Syl With a cast like Michael Muhney, Michael Madsen, Jenna Zablocki, and Stacy Keach, I would have expected a better film. The director Serge Rodunsky was also writer and producer as well. The film tries to be scary but fails. The audience never knows what's really going on in the film. Jenna Zablocki and Michael Muhney play medical examiners in Los Angeles, California. They stumble upon a mystery including a blacked out portrait but we never know the truth or the cause. The audience has to figure the plot out. In reality, this film could be shown as what not to do in film making. The director seems more interested in making the audience be shocked by the amount of blood and gore on screen. After a couple times, the audience isn't shocked anymore. They should be laughing. We never know the truth. Maybe the director expects the audience to figure it out but I don't want too nor I should have too.

bowmanblue Trust me, there's nothing in the portal you would ever want to see. Do you like horror films? Were you tempted by the mention of Michael Madsen in the cast list? That was how they got me to sit through this. Big mistake. The film looks like it was shot in the nineteen seventies with a budget that's been drummed up by a guy walking round collecting change in a slightly stained hat. Oh, and Michael Madsen is barely in it. He was better in Celebrity Big Brother.The Portal has bad acting, awful computer generated special effects (were they rendered on a ZX Spectrum?), terrible dialogue, stupid camera angles and looks cheaper than something made for cable TV (bypassing even a straight-to-DVD release).Some films are so bad they're good (Demons or Starcrash, for example). This one is just bad, bad, bad - seriously, save yourself an hour and a half and watch the shopping channel instead (the prices of those gold bracelets are a damn sight scarier than anything in the Portal).http://thewrongtreemoviereviews.blogspot.co.uk/

tdeladeriere From the moment the film opens to its ending credits, the soundtrack never stops. Possibly the director thought the endless cacophony of strings and wind instruments would lend some flair to this uninspired epileptic mess, but it only managed to give me a headache. It took me 3 sittings to make it through this drabfest, not necessarily because it was bad (it was) but because of the never-ending soundtrack.As to the movie ? A nurse and her (hot) male colleague (the only reason this got a 1/10) investigate the bizarre head-exploding death of a former patient. As they meet the relatives of the victim, a couple of other heads explode and ghost children emerge from a black painting looking like a fuzzy B&W TV screen, probably because they are the key to this exploding-head mystery, but you'll never know, because by the time the movie reaches its pitiful climax, the music gets so obtrusive that you can't hear anything Michael Madsen says before he starts laughing hysterically and his head explodes. The poor nurse is now into hysterics and you will be too, unless you pop a Cuprofen.