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Mr. Bricks: A Heavy Metal Murder Mystery
USA 2011
produced by Justin A. Martell, Nicola Fiore, Lloyd Kaufman (executive), Michael Herz (executive), Helen Martell (executive), Kenneth Martell (executive), Michelle A. O'Donnell (executive), Timothy P. O'Donnell (executive), Joe Randazzo (executive) for Ship to Shore Media
directed by Travis Campbell
starring Tim Dax, Nicola Fiore, Vito Trigo, Annie May Cron, Federico Trigo, David Warchol, Shavey Brown, Jamie Robinson, Lloyd Kaufman, Shawn C. Phillips, M. Kelley, Jamie Greco, Richard Barone, Sharmeen Azmudeh, Lisa Forst, Nina Gielen, Erick Griffenkranz, Purple Pam Shelby, Martijn Berndsen, Mike Bozicevic, Travis Campbell
story by Travis Campbell, screenplay by Lauren Miller, music by Travis Campbell, Dane Robinson, closing title track by Motörhead, special effects by Jessica Jacobs
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Mr. Bricks is by no means a valuable member of society, he's a criminal
and murderer who has done his time in jail, and when he has come out he
was anything but a changed man. But even someone as bad as Mr. Bricks can
fall in love eventually - with Scarlet (Nicola Fiore), the only human
being Mr. Bricks has feelings for. Too bad then that she has been
kidnapped. And now Mr. Bricks is going to reclaim her, and not even
bullets can stop him ... This story is only half-true though, Scarlet
has never been his lover but a woman he has kidnapped - but he has
fallen for her in captivity ... and raped her to show his affection. And
the man who has taken her from him is Dukes (Vito Trigo), her very partner
- because you know, Scarlet is a cop, and she was actually supposed to be
bait for Mr. Bricks, and the reason that this hasn't worked out the way it
should was that Dukes is a crooked cop - but just like Mr. Bricks, Dukes
has fallen for Scarlet ... Eventually, Scarlet finds out she has gotten
pregnant from Mr. Bricks, and she wants to meet him one last time for
payback time. Dukes finds out where the two are going to meet, so he
decides to join the party ... a party that not everyone will leave alive! As
hinted at in the title, Mr. Bricks: A Heavy Metal Murder Musical is
a musical - where the characters actually do break out into songs every
now and again, and yes, of the heavy metal variety (but other than the
pathetic Rock of Ages we're talking hardcore metal here). A recipe
for disaster? Maybe, but this film gets it right because it tells a story
that lives up to the violent impact of its music, a story full of violence
and murder, from the underbelly of society, that's dirty enough and blunt
enough to mirror the feelings transmitted in the music. On a directorial
level, the movie sometimes (during the songs mostly) resembles a music
video - from a time when music videos still had something to say -, but
mostly the film has cleverly applied grindhouse vibe to it, withoutbeing
just revisionist. And acting-wise especially Tim Dax and Nicola Fiore nail
their respective roles (even if Ms Fiore is a little weak in the singing
department). Now all that said, you better at least like hardcore heavy
metal to like this film, since the music is pretty much everywhere, but if
you do, you really shouldn't miss this one!
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