Sin: The Movie

Sin the Movie is the best worst movie you've never seen. It adapts an unsuccessful first person shooter game called Sin that tried to compete with the original Half Life. Video game adaptations are known to be terrible and Sin is no exception. Nothing makes sense. Nothing is explained. And this is what makes Sin the Movie the best of the worst movies. It begins with John Blade, JC and some rando going into a sewer because reasons. JC is then killed by a sewer alligator, I think. Because reasons. John Blade yells "JC" and the scene cuts to a funeral. Some old guy mumbles pretentious dialogueto John Blade and nobody cares what he says. JC's sister, whose name can be abbreviated to JC, requests to see John Blade, but since she is probably unimportant we can skip ahead a couple scenes. Tim, who is a normal man and the self-insert of this movie, ends up being killed by a monster similar to the sewer alligator that killed JC. The plot thickens, but not really because it doesn't make any sense. This little girl that John Blade rescued from somewhere has some connection to a monster, I think, it's pretty unclear. Several scenes later, some evil corporate overlord woman called Sinclair is doing evil corporate things with this evil corporate man named Vincenzo Manchini. John Blade and his crew invade the tower because they kidnapped the little girl and John Blade makes sure to bring his cancer bullets to shoot the sewer alligator monsters. John Blade kills Vincenzo Manchini and the evil corporate woman Sinclair, rescues the little girl, then they escape out of the tower on an aircraft. The end. The movie looks terrible because the art director must have been going through an edgy phase and put in too many dark colours. Most of the movie takes place at night and the animation team didn't give a rat's ass about making anything look smooth. There's one single scene where a sewer alligator mutant soldier runs very quickly at a lot of tanks that looks hilarious and that's the only good bit. It's visually hard to follow what's going on and the subtitles don't make it any easier. The plot is impossible to understand because not even the writer knew what he was doing. It's a hackjob of an adaptation and you'd have to hunt down a copy of the game to try and understand where this fits in. The voice acting is spectacularly stupid and done by people who have gone on to be quite successful. Nothing could be as hilariously poorly done as Sin the Movie. MD Geist comes close but that doesn't try to have a plot. Sin does. It takes itself seriously even though whoever worked on it clearly didn't care. Should you really watch Sin the Movie? Yes. Watch it several times. With friends. Watch it a lot.

Ah, my favourite anime to loathe. Sin was a fun game, IMO. Even this movie might have made a playable game, if an intensely generic one. But it wasn't a game – it was a movie, and a bad one. From the very start canon is thrown right out the window, closely followed by the splattered brains of the protagonist's fan-beloved partner and friend, JC. If you think that was a spoiler, you're right – it pretty much spoils the entire movie by turning it into a body-horror splatterhouse with an unspeakably awkward sexual tension twist as JC's where-the-hell-did-she-come-from sister, also namedJC, joins forces with the guy who killed her brother essentially to act as a living decoration. This flinchworthy cliche-hugging 'edgy' weirdness is the only memorable thing about the entire movie. If you like the game Sin, don't watch this movie. If you like movies, don't watch this movie. If you like Sin: The Movie, don't watch this movie. This is blatantly the exploitation of an almost-successful franchise by someone who saw a cool-looking character on a game box, skim-read the back, bought a license to the property, and fed it to a bunch of hacks.

Based on a video game I have never played or seen up to this day, Sin: The Movie is an action oriented anime that continues to provide the perfect reasons on why a majority of video games should never make it to film. Movies like these are almost always atrocious, and Sin isn't very far from the very definition. The only things working in favor of this nightmare are the violence and soundtrack; everything else is pretty much a hot mess with the characters, story, and plot all leading the charge. I don't know, but there's just something about a man taking a knife straightthrough the head that is so cool to watch. Especially, when his eyeball goes crooked, and the killer continues to stab his dead body. One thing is for sure, anime newbies and gorehounds will be impressed with the graphic violence found in Sin. The animation is fairly good exploiting the murder and mayhem. There's a pretty good amount of detail when showcasing the severed spines, and heads being stepped on into oblivion crushing everything, with even the teeth breaking out of place. Unfortunately, this amount of detail is lost in other areas. People step out of pools, and they're bone dry in about half a second with no drips whatsoever. To include, the CG looks really flat, and really doesn't mesh well with the animation a majority of the time. The character designs for the monsters are alright at best but nothing mind blowing. I would go so far to say that they're on the creative level of the original Guyver or even Arc the Lad, take that any way you want. The high tempo soundtrack is just right for this type of movie, and it works well with the pacing and action. As bad as the movie may be, it moves by pretty quick. I really didn't care for the voice acting, because everyone seemed as if they were trying too hard to fill their roles. The problems are in the movies development from start to finish. The characters are bland stereotypes with little to no personality at all; hero cop, wise cracking cop, evil genius, etc. The story and by the numbers plot is extremely cliché and cheesy beyond belief as well; from the revealing of the "secret weapon", to the dialogue concerning revenge and world domination. It even has the spectacular explosion to cap off the ending. There was no real creativity to speak of with this movie, and the final act plays exactly like a video game, with the hero shooting his way through different levels, climbing ladders, meeting a sub boss, and battling the end boss. If John Blade happened to die at any point, and the "continue" count down showed up, I wouldn't have been the least bit surprised. Also, lets not forget the cheap drama and shower scene that holds no meaning other than fan service. In addition to the done to death government conspiracies featuring cover-ups which are nothing more than desperate attempts to land some type of substance in an overall bland action flick. It feels embarrassing to sit through this. Sin is definitely something that should be skipped, whether you're a die hard action fan or not. There is nothing remarkable about it, and if you do find yourself curious on checking it out. Then it should probably be after you seen just about everything else. Highs: Pacing and music score, some of the violence Lows: Walking bag of been there done that and done much better. Poor story, plot, etc.