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It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

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

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Where to begin? Imagine a movie inspired from Mad Max and Samurai movies directed by Quentin Tarantino based on a story written by Philip K. Dick. Close enough? 'Six-String Samurai' is oddball action adventure film that takes place in the post-apocalyptic universe where the finest guitarists are also fine swordsmen and martial artists. The film is filled with references to film classics (starting from 'El Topo' and finishing with 'Star Wars'), bizarre characters, weirdness and well staged fighting scenes. The last one can be attributed to the film's writer and main star Jeffrey Falcon's real martial arts skills. In general, the film takes itself as what it is - low budgeted science-fiction. Not too serious and pretentious, and at the same time carefully avoiding the territories on tasteless banality. Films like this tend to be more fun and enjoyable to the cast and crew, than the viewer. 'Six-String Samurai' is the rare exception - the film is highly enjoyable romp. And with every scene, the true heart and soul of the filmmakers can be felt. Perfect example of when you don't have big budgets, but have enormous amounts of imagination.

This movie is one of the most original and fun movies ever made. There are so many good parts to it, I would fail trying to list all of them. The acting is great, the jokes are funny, the music is awesome, the shoots are eye candy. Get it on DVD for never-ending fun! Too bad this seems to be the only movie Lance Mungia ever made'We saw Red Elvises at a concert and we would yell "Nice shoes!" to them between songs :) Here's a (poor quality) video for Red Elvises' song "Lovepipe" that consists of outtakes from this movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyHc0ysKy4s

** HERE BE SPOILERS ** Recap: There has been a nuclear war. America is reduced to a wasteland with mutants, freaks and cavemen roaming free. There is just one place were civilization thrives, Lost Vegas. And the king of Lost Vegas, Elvis, has just died. Now, every guitar playing weapon wielding musician with any self respect is making a journey to Vegas to claim the throne. Buddy is one, Death is another. Buddy is a legendary musician that has somewhat of a drinking problem, and his journey becomes so much harder when he rescues a little boy from gum throwing cavemen. The kid tags along and a odd bond develops between the two. Death and his arrow shooting band members is out to kill every opponent, and soon Buddy is the only one left...Comment: This is a very odd and peculiar movie, that at a first glance has a really poor story and acting. Costumes and scenery are not that great either, except for Death's and Buddy's. But as the movie goes along I discovered that the quality of camera movement and editing was high and that the story actually was full of references not present in a poor written story. So there is one conclusion to draw, this is a low budget b-movie that tries to be just that and nothing else. And it succeeds brilliantly. The story and acting, still peculiar, is actually entertaining and Buddy is a great character. The kid is annoying sometimes, unfortunately, but I thought that it got better as the movie went along. In the end I was very happy I had rented and seen this movie...7/10

***Warning: Contains mild spoilers***Well, what can you say about this picture? Does it have good acting? Certainly not. Does it have a good story? No. Is it watchable? Strangely, it is (once anyways).The micro-formula for the movie can be reduced to this: Hero finds kid and tries to get rid of him. Kid is thereby brought into a position where he will be in danger from random weirdly dressed group. Kid screams. Hero returns and dispatches group with repeated (and repetitive) sword action. Hero wants to leave. Kid screams. Kid finds some random form of transportation, fixes it and is taken along by hero. Cut to 'Death' group, that chases our hero, killing some random guy.Rinse. Repeat. (Ad nauseam)So why did I not turn it off after the third or fourth repetition? Simply because I wanted to find out what weirdly dressed up group would enter next.The music is strange. Swordfighting to boogie or polka feels...weird. The music used in Quentin Tarantino flicks for similar scenes is 'fitting' by comparison. The dialog (what little there mercifully is of it) isn't worth listening to. Some of it even doesn't make sense given the 'history' they had set up in the opening credits. The kid, thank god, only screams and doesn't talk too much else.Not to spoil the climax or anything, but did anybody else think the resolution to the final fight was bizarre? At that point I might have suspected that the movie was supposed to be a spoof - if it had been funny at any other time prior to that.So I'll give it a 4/10. You can rent and watch it once. The movie will probably be -barely- worth the fee for you.