Welcome back one and all for Day 3 of
The Puppet Master Continues. When last we left our monstrous
moppets, they were flashing back to a simpler time when they were
first brought into existence and Sutekh's people were rampant over
Cairo. This time around we move into modern era with a "rogue"
agent searching for Toulon's puppets and secrets and she will not be
detoured. This is Puppet Master: The Legacy.
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| Jeez, another old guy. Why don't babes ever answer our Craigslist post? |
Maclain (Kate Orsini of Buffy the
Vampire Slayer, Gilmore Girls, Gargoyle, Rail Kings, Welcome to Earth
and The Nurse) has tracked and scoured the Earth looking for
the secrets of Toulon back to the Bodega Bay hotel where Toulon offed
himself waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back in the first film... and was
resurrected for the second and them we are at a lost from there on.
Reading through his diary and getting a narrative of earlier accounts
the diary catches fire and Maclain will have to seek her answers
elsewhere. She found a older gentleman now of Eric Weiss (Jacob
Witkin of Ekkusu bonba, Superboy, Swamp Thing, Showgirls, Star Wars:
Jedi Knight II- Jedi Outcast, Dr. Moreau's House of Pain and Phantom)
formally Peter Hertz, the boy Toulon saved from the Nazis in World
War II. Present day, Peter has finally found out whatever happened
to his friend after years of being out of contact with each other.
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| Yul Brynner??!!! |
Eric has been going through Toulon's
notes in order to make sense of the alchemy and strange chemical
formula when he is held at gunpoint by Maclain and she demands the
secrets so we go through an extensive flashback re-telling with...
archived footage? That's right folks, we are getting Toulon's
vacation slides and a narrative from Eric. Interspersed with
previous footage I saw maybe a half hour of new material but
otherwise the rest is from the previous flicks. Maclain goes on to
further establish before she arrived at the hotel she tracked Dr.
Rick Meyers of Puppet Master 4 and Puppet Master the Final Chapter
down and stipulated she wanted Toulon's diary. When she didn't get
it by means that were not evil she apparently shot Meyers and his
friends to lay hands on the diary.
Eric remains calm for the most part,
waiting for a chance to strike. Knowing full well that the puppets
remember him and will protect him at Toulon's last wishes and
thoughts are being played out on a recorder. The recordings always
speak of someone else discovering the secrets and not knowing fully
what the formula can be. Soul transference is the name of the game
kiddies. Toulon has been dropping souls into his deadly dolls for
ages and each new puppet master has been doing the same. Are they
now legion? Where are these other dolls? What is their end game?
A few comments of the film now. This is
the first Puppet Master film directed by the franchise creator
Charles Band. The acting in this movie between Orsini and Witkin
isn't bad. The film really tries to fill in the massive amounts of
gaping plot holes left by the series but let's face it, those holes
are as wide as chasms by now. The pretentious need to have
everything tie together by this time does not quite meet up with
fans' expectations by this point. Vainglorious endeavors aside, the
effort should be acknowledged in spite of the lack of real story
telling. If you are an avid fan of the series then by all means,
partake in the movie. Otherwise, you can easily skip it. This
moving picture doesn't really tell us anything we didn't already know
but plays up a bit of suspense.
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| You will sexually gratify me or get a bullet in the head!! |
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