Watch Explosion of a Motor Car For Free

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Everything seems so harmless early on in this black-and-white silent short film, but things take a turn for the worse quickly. A car explodes. And the people in it die. There is something pretty hilarious though to the way that body-parts and clothes are falling from the sky down to to the police officer who is definitely not able to deal with the situation. In a way, you could call this very short film by British filmmaking pioneer Cecil M. Hepworth the mother of all action movies. 115 years later and it's not a real action movies if there aren't any explosions in there. The more the better and preferably with outstanding visual effects. But apart from the strange humor in here, there is nothing really memorable about it.

As the title suggest, this short is based around a car blowing up. Those expecting modern effects will be amused to see how this explosion is achieved (with a simple cut where the car is replaced with a pile of metal and wheels) however it is not the effects that are memorable. Rather what is memorable is the dark edge to this early film. The thing to remember is that the motor car was hardly a well established and taken-of-granted device that it is today but that it would have still had an element of mistrust in the way some older people still view computers today.So to have this explode killing the passengers is one thing but the film goes beyond that with the macabre spectacle of the policeman picking his way through falling body parts, trying to inventory and perhaps put them back in the correct pile. It is not really funny although it is slightly comic but for me it was more fascinating to see such a thing in a film this old. Not brilliant of course but an interesting bit of cinema history.

This is a case of where the title is also the plot description. Cecil Hepworth borrows a technique from George Melies for this short comedy (?) showing the instability of the modern motorcar. A couple is out for a drive in their car when it suddenly blows up! The explosion is accomplished by a jumpcut where the car disappears and then a cloud of white smoke and a pile of debris takes its place. A policeman who was strolling by looks upward and has to dodge a rain of severed body parts! Remembering his duty, the constable tries to sort out of grim offal, placing the female limbs in one pile and the male limbs in another. Interestingly the heads never make it back to Earth. You have to laugh at this one, you cannot dwell on how grim the subject matter is. Take it as a comic blackout skit and it is quite funny.

Gruesome early example of what can only be described as black humor. A car explodes causing a grizzly precipitation of body parts onto a passing policeman. Only one scene and one camera angle but an interesting early experimentation with camera effects and an attempt to set the scene with the use of extras crossing the road in front of the car before it explodes. The ending, as the policeman sorts through the body parts, has a surreal, pythonesque feel about it.