Review of Puppet Master 5 (1994) by Brendan O — 24 Oct 2010
This film starts right where Part 4 left off. This time Sutekh has turned himself into the ultimate Totem. It's more of the same from part 4. Nothing spectacular just more of the same. Considering that the first portion of the film consisted of extremely long opening credit followed by equally long flashback recap of the previous film, it's a wonder there was any room left in the short runtime to tell the story here (which isn't much).
The battles in this film aren't nearly as good as part 4 and truth of the matter is, you could have easily put part 4 and 5 together into one film and made it work with a little editing and tweaking. Instead we get an ok part 4 and a wasted part 5.
Nothing really happens in this movie. There's nothing new, nothing added. The puppets don't do much, the humans don't do much and Sutekh doesn't do much.
What am I saying? Well, this film just doesn't do much.
This review of Puppet Master 5 (1994) was written by Brendan O on 24 Oct 2010.
Puppet Master 5 has generally received mixed reviews.
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