Review of Tusk (2014) by Joe D — 08 Jun 2015
I hate that 'so bad it's good' has become a genre in and of itself now. When Ed Wood made 'Plan 9 From Outer Space' or even, to an extent, when Tommy Wiseau made 'The Room', they weren't trying to make a movie so laughably bad that it takes on a new type of appeal.
They were trying to make the best movie they could make. When a film like Tusk comes along and keeps winking at the audience saying 'look, this is so stupid, it's hilarious!' it doesn't have the same charm of Plan 9 or The Room because it's not made in earnest.
Tusk will never be the cult classic it's trying so desperately hard to be, purely because it's trying so fucking hard. Having said that, I'm giving it two stars purely because of Michael Parks.
He does well with the material he's given, for the first two acts anyway.
This review of Tusk (2014) was written by Joe D on 08 Jun 2015.
Tusk has generally received mixed reviews.
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