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W Delta Z
The Killing Gene
UK 2007
produced by
Allan Niblo, James Richardson, Nick Love (executive), Duncan Reid (executive), Peter Touche (executive) for Vertigo Films, Ingenious Film Partners, UK Film Council, Northern Ireland Film and Television Commission
directed by Tom Shankland
starring Stellan Skarsgard, Selma Blair, Melissa George, Ashley Walters, Tom Hardy, Sally Hawkins, John Sharian, Barbara Adair, Lauren Hood, Caroline Lee-Johnson, Sean Brian Jordaan, Paul Kaye, Cheila Kerr, Michael Liebman, Joshua O'Gorman, Alibe Parsons, Robert D.Phillips, Marcus Valentine, Michael Wildman, Peter Ballance
written by Clive Bradley, music by David Julyan, special effects by Nimba Creations, Team FX
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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Tough cop Eddie (Stellan Skarsgard) and rookie Helen (Melissa George)
investigate a series of gangland killings, and soon realize that they are
trailing a serial killer, who always teams up one gangmember with the
person he or she loves and tortures the gangmember with the promise to
stop the torture once he electrecutes his/her loved one. Very often, the
gangmember later dies from the injuries inflicted by torture. But why is
the formula W Delta Z carved into all the victims? Eddie and
Helen soon catch up with a scientist, Gelb (Paul Kaye), who knows about
the formula and acts mighty suspicious ... but he didn't do it. One of his
assistants though might have, Jean Lerner (Selma Blair), who has been
gangraped by all the gangmembers involved in the killings and a few more,
who promised her to stop only if she tells them to shoot her mother
(Sheila Kerr) - which she eventually did. And somehow, she later fell in
love with the W Delta Z formula, which is part of an equation about
how much violence is needed to make someone sacrifice a loved one. Two
problems: Nobody knows where Jean is now, and Eddie was involved in her
gangrape case which was somehow totally botched up and set all those
guilty free. And Eddie seems to not be telling the whole truth now, and is
weirdly concerned about one of the rapists, Daniel (Ashley Walters), a
police informer who claims he was not really part of the whole thing. In
the end, it turns out that Eddie and Daniel are gay lovers, and that Eddie
was responsible for the whole botch-up of the rape case to save Daniel
from prison. Jean knows all of than, and before you know it, Jean has
kidnapped Eddie and Daniel both, to torture Eddie and see how much it
takes until he electrocutes Daniel. But at least now, Eddie proves a true
man and dies in his lover's stead - which very much impresses Jean, who
then readily gives herself up to the police.
The script of this film is seriously convoluted and far-fetched, and
the science behind it sounds silly, to say the least ... but that doesn't
automatically mean the film ahs to be bad, right? After all, many gread
shockers rely on hilariously stupid ideas. Unfortunately, W Delta Z
is just that, a bad movie. Director Tom Shankland seriously fails to get a
handle on his material and thus his idea of bringing the film to life
relies entirely on hip but impersonal filmmaking routines like shaky
cameras, fashionably grungey sets and a predominance of shades of brown
and green. And what could have been a perversion of the young cop-old cop
cliché has instead turned into a by-the-numbers rendition of the same.
Add to that the - as mentioned above - convoluted and far fetched
storyline, and you are left with a minor disaster. Definitely not worth
your time and money.
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