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The Prototype
Italy / USA / Argentina 2022
produced by Marcelo Grion, Peter Bauer, Juan Antonio Devoto (executive), Fred DeWysocki (executive) for Energia Films
directed by Marcelo Grion
starring Mark Vasconcellos, Frank Spinelli, Bryan Kent (= Ken Belsky), Juan Antonio Devoto, Victoria De Mare, Jim O'Donoghue, Michael Bertaut, Stephen Frye, Stefania Maldera, Theresa Tilly, Jeaninne Ouimet, Alona Summers, Todd Stroik, Al Munko, Tracy Greene, Jose Klodnicki, Leslie Elliott, Jose Luis Sartorio, Gerardo Hernandez Beltran, Jacob Cutino, Shawn Michael Murphy
written by Stephen Brown, Marcelo Grion, Stephen Karandy, music by George Kallis
review by Mike Haberfelner
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It's 300 years into the future, and humankind has fought and lost a war
against alien invaders led by intergalactic terrorist Piak (Frank
Spoinelli), a war that has totally anihilated humankind, and only a race
of clones is still alive to keep the human spirit alive. But there's one
hope, and that's Garrett (Mark Vasconcellos), a gouvernment agent who has
been put to cryogenic sleep before the war, and whom clone Tony (Juan
Antonio Devoto) brings back to life now as it seems Garrett alone can save
the world. But there are a couple of problems: Basically, Garrett has only
one more day to live, and he can't quite remember his past and thus the
key to saving humankind. But not all is lost as slowly Garrett starts to
remember how he'd been a gouvernment agent investigating TV reverend Hope
(Jim O'Donoghue), and how he got betrayed by Piak, who back then was a
fellow agent for the gouvernment and nobody knew about his alien heritage
yet, how he took an experimental serum that gave him super strength, and
how he learned about the preparations for an alien invasion from Virgil
(Michael Bertaut), a painter who's really an alien but has turned his back
on his race to help humanity. So Garrett inches closer and closer to the
solution of everything, but maybe not quickly enough as Piak still roams
the countryside, and he's not very happy with humankind's possible
salvation ... Now to be completely honest, when it comes to
storyline, this movie is a bit over-convoluted and doesn't always make a
lot of sense - but that said, at the same time the film is a really fun
ride, with plenty of fistfights and shoot-outs, some quite decent effects
work, and some fun costume choices. And not only in these costume choices
but in everything, The Prototype is pretty much a perfect throwback
to 1980s and 1990s macho action B-movies, where the physical always
outweighed narrative finesse but everything was done to keep the audience
entertained. And that's really what this movie does very well, it's
basically a very enjoyable trip.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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