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Shocking Dark

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A team of soldiers and civilians are sent to Venice to investigate the mysterious deaths of scientists who are trying to clean polluted waters.
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Mike Massie Gone With The Twins The only components that aren't outright deplorable are the sets, which couldn't have been built for this movie, as the budget wouldn't have allowed for it. Rated: 1/10 Sep 7, 2020 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member This is basicly Aliens, but set in Venice, way worse, and the fact the original name for this film was Terminator II is hilariously stupid. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review brad p Un-shockingly Awesome Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review delysid d this movie is so funny, in the italian tradition of making terrible ripoff movies inspired by great american movies. this is clearly a ripoff of alien, not terminator, but it's not even set in space! its just a creepy old italian power plant. still, despite its numerous shortcomings, i thought it was a little bit cool Rated 3 out of 5 stars 04/07/19 Full Review Audience Member Italian Terminator 2 by the looks of it but really legendry Japanese/Italian director Bruno Mattei bring us TERMINATOR 2 and released only a few months before the Real Thing! But actually it rips of Cameron's other film Aliens (With some Terminator in it). I have just finished watching this epic piece of trash that any retard can see rips off Aliens but with some more added action scenes and violence and set in a futuristic Rome. Hell does nothing but gives such an amazing and excellent time for anything viewer! BTW in Bruno's native Japan this is called Alienator's that's where my uncut DVD came from and I always amaze at his popularity over there. Though why he called it Terminator 2 is still beyond me. [IMG]http://i55.tinypic.com/2i6gcy.jpg[/IMG] Sometime before the year 2000 and reasons still not given throw the film, the once beautiful city of Rome today is nothing and it has been completely destroyed (Some biological accident?). Today its patrolled and walled off from the rest of the world. But after research reams disappear in there they send a grope of elite military team in there to find them but only find monsters living in the sewers under the city. Came on its plainly and too easy to see that it is just another Alien rip off, It does nothing but creates a cheaper version of Aliens. Everything you see in this film from Characters too locations are all in this, Though two of our characters are so alike to Aliens Bruno Mattei almost got sued more than once though it does add a little bit of Terminator in it. Though its entertaining what more can I say??? Full of errors and flaws but so damn cool from start to finish. Never bores for a second. The special effects are average to poor and the Aliens are carbon copies of Scott's ones but less detailed. The music is okay along with some of its standard editing. Here are some facts I found. This film was made as and released in many areas outside of the United States with the title "Terminator II", a supposed "sequel" to James Cameron's The Terminator (1984) despite this film having nothing to do with the latter. Due to rights issues it has never been released in the United States with this title. But at the end it will always be worth seeing and my final verdict is highly recommended. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/13/23 Full Review Audience Member Bruno Mattei bevállalós rendezÅ'. Terminator II című filmje egyszerre folytatja James Cameron kultikus Terminatorját à (C)s remakeli James Cameron Aliens (Bolygó neve: Halál) c filmjà (C)t. ÃrthetÅ' Mattei magabiztos hozzáállása, hisz karrierjà (C)t olyan klasszikusok rendezà (C)sà (C)vel alapozta, mint a Patkányok vagy Az à (C)lÅ'halottak pokla. A và (C)geredmà (C)ny valami bámulatosan szar lett. 90 perces rohangálás egy sötà (C)t folyosón à (C)s pofátlanul lopott jelenetek a már említett filmekbÅ'l. Mattei meg csodálkozott, hogy Cameron nem engedi Terminator 2 címen forgalmazni a filmjà (C)t Amerikában... à (C)n se à (C)rtem. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member Fantastisk italiensk rip pÃ¥ Alien II. Fast den skulle vara en "uppföljare" till Terminator. NÃ¥ja, den kopierar i stort sett scen efter scen i Alien II fast mer mycker mer cheeze och lÃ¥gbudget. Den ahr i och för sig en twist med en mördarrobot sÃ¥ lite unik är den .Helt enkelt en superb film. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis A team of soldiers and civilians are sent to Venice to investigate the mysterious deaths of scientists who are trying to clean polluted waters.
Director
Bruno Mattei
Producer
Franco Gaudenzi
Screenwriter
Claudio Fragasso
Genre
Action, Sci-Fi
Original Language
Italian
Release Date (Streaming)
May 14, 2019
Runtime
1h 30m
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