Review of The Guillotines (2012) by Robert H — 24 Aug 2013

Honestly, this film has very little going for it. The action sequences which should be uber epic considering the number of soldiers, etc. don't really amount to much. There is perhaps one scene that might be decent but most the action is CG with fake canons firing, and weird totally unrealistic "guillotine" weapons. In fact, I'm sure these guillotines were supposed to be the cool factor in the film but they are so fake not only in the quality of the CG but in the unrealistic fashion in which they function.

Then you get the story. We are introduced to 3 boys, get a little back story. Then we are introduced to the title characters "The Guillotines" and get some back story. Then *spoiler alert* our title characters are killed off in very unspectacular fashion. Apparently these elite assassins are mostly incompetent boys and not the uber awesome looking guys we see earlier in the film. All this is going on (and it does take awhile for all this to happen) so that there can be some kind of moral conflict between 2 of the three boys who started the film?

Not much in this film makes sense. The motivations aren't there. The action sequences and massacres don't make much sense. The audience comes out of this film not knowing exactly who to cheer for and in the end, the film tries to play off this historical action farse as if it were a true story of sorts. *sigh* This film could have been uber awesome with only a few changes... as drastic as they might be.