The Deaths of Ian Stone (DVD, 2008)

ONE @$$-hole gave this a bad rating. WHY?? Without playing spoiler, I provided a well obective and fair review. Will you please give me a good review in place of the jerks bad one. many thanks and best personal regards... David

OK, here we have a horror version of the ’93 comedy GROUNDHOG DAY. Little was shown from this film and only recently have we seen stills and a trailer. It
looked and sounded flippin cool… but it isn’t.

IAN STONE tells the story of an all-American guy who is murdered each day by horrifying pursuers, only to wake up in slightly different lives to experience the terror of being murdered again. The film is really odd in a way as it tries to emulate the world from THE MATRIX on a shoe string budget.

It’s an extremely ambiguous project that in the end fails to deliver the “edge” it should have. It lacks suspense and carries a Sci-Fi feel more than a thriller. Even the idea of Ian Stone dying over and over again isn’t well done. Just about the lowest denominator of effort and creativity was put into the deaths.

I was expecting to see some FINAL DESTINATION stuff! But instead just watch his throat get cut over and over again. Lame...

I think the only reason I’d watch this again would be to see Jamie Murray running around in skimpy clothes for another hour and a half (in a little Britney Spears red latex outfit.) And even though the special FX work wasn’t the greatest you’ve ever seen, some of the reapers looked good.

Overall, I am disappointed with THE DEATHS OF IAN STONE There’s zero scare, zero substance, zero creativity and zero value in it. But in all honesty, I’ll let you be the judge without even seeing the movie... the very last line is a f-cking one-liner, “Whats a matter, scared?” Yeah, I’m scared if people paid to see this in a theater.

Buy on Ebay for $5.00 tops.