In this action comedy, Jack Goldwater, an IRS agent on loan to the Federal Air Marshal Service, is relieved of field duty after insulting a powerful U.S. Senator, and finds himself exiled to a humiliating desk job in Nevada as the federal receiver managing a legal brothel in tax default, where – with the help of the brothel Madam, Lady Magdalene – he uncovers an Al Qaeda plot to unload a nuclear-bomb-sized crate at Hoover Dam. I saw this film after hearing about how the director got 'trolled' on IMDb , with 1/10 ratings. Many of those ratings obviously duplicates. Nevertheless, the director insists that we actually watch the film before judging. That sounds reasonable so I did. The film is even on YouTube. <br/><br/>The film is about some guy who works for the IRS and is accused of racially profiling some (arab?) guy on a plane, for having a violin thinking it was a bomb. To be fair the guy was also watching a video of 9-11. Anyhow he is demoted to an assignment administrating a brothel in Nevada, where he finds out that he may have been right to be suspicious after all.<br/><br/>The YouTube version actually begins with a 5 minute director presentation flogging his herbal merchandise. If you can't be bothered to watch the whole film I implore you to watch this first 5 minutes for it's unintentional hilarity. The director is asked questions by an overly eager interviewer, and the director himself admits to being tired as he hadn't had much sleep. I guess it's hard to describe in words but it just oozed with awkwardness. It's like a Bruce Willis interview. <br/><br/>The first 30 minutes I was somewhat hooked from the obvious so bad it's good. The acting and writing is clumsy and robotic. There is the scene early on where this IRS protagonist is appealing to the tribuneral. The response from the female head of this tribunal, and i'm not sure if it's the acting, writing or both, is is bland and overly long. It's like a long sentence with no punctuation. Unfortunately the so bad it's good loses it's appeal after the first 50 or so minutes. The film is surprisingly long for what it is and would have been better if it was at least 20 minutes shorter than it is. The film is also not so subtle in it's libertarian messages. <br/><br/>Is it the worst film ever? No, not even close. The sound is good. I can hear what the actors are saying and that automatically puts it above many of the dreadful indie films you see on those obscure TV channels. Enjoy it for what it is. "Lady Magdalene's" combines an inventive story with a cast and crew (and a writer - director - producer - supporting actor - composer - lyricist) who are clearly having the time and delight of their lives. Their enthusiasm shows up on screen.<br/><br/>It also ends up having "six genres in a head-on collision," as author Brad Linaweaver described it. That won't be to everyone's taste, especially for those wanting a straight-ahead plot. Yet it has considerable rewards if one is patient with it, as I admit that I had to be.<br/><br/>This "suspense/comedy" has an IRS investigator, on inter-agency exchange duty as a federal air marshal, being called out for making a misstep in apprehending a suspected terrorist. He's actually right in his suspicions, though he doesn't know that.<br/><br/>Yet his supposed screw-up gets him sent to one of the oddest corners of IRS purgatory: He's made the latest receiver and manager of a legal brothel, long troubled and owing taxes, outside Pahrump, Nevada. (This was inspired by an actual case.)<br/><br/>The lovely, erhm, working women all around him may be hiding a few surprises, including links to the case that put him in career limbo. And is the pleasure-fulfillment engineer he's falling for exactly who she seems? He's determined to track these mysteries, and his chase goes from a shooting range to Hoover Dam to a mysterious medical research facility. Oh, and to a Pahrump casino with two-for-one dinner buffets!<br/><br/>Nichelle Nichols is the determined, beset, but always sexy madam of this establishment, trying to clean up after her late lover (its former owner) and his losses at the craps table. She has the girls join her in a stab at gaining local respectability that's too pleasing and unexpected to be spoiled here.<br/><br/>The tracing-the-terrorists action, ultimately weaving through the silken curtains of Lady Magdalene's pleasure dome, does gets too intricate in the last half-hour, though the story leaves no loose ends. It also is more clearly told in the DVD / demand-video version than in the earlier theatrical screenings, with background details being placed in flashbacks.<br/><br/>Presenting all the detail without confusion finally gets beyond the acting confidence of most of the undeniably lovely working girls — though not at all for Nichols, nor for fellow leads Ethan Keogh and Susan Smythe. Yet they're all game for the effort, and their enthusiasm ends up winning out, right up to and through the closing credits.<br/><br/>I saw this film being developed over several years of updates from protean creator Neil Schulman himself at libertarian venues. (Although I have known him for a decade, I had no role in this production, nor did I write this review at his instigation.)<br/><br/>It doesn't have high polish, yet it makes more out of a half-million dollars than most big-studio "high concepts" do with fifty times the budget and a tenth the intelligence.<br/><br/>It did save money to have Neil's mother, daughter, ex-wife, and late father (!) manage to take part in the proceedings, as well as other friends who add anti-authoritarian asides that never lose the comic beat. (The plot does have digressions, but they end up being meaningful in retrospect.)<br/><br/>This is an independent creation that makes the most of current tools, but does suffer at times from the limitations of its budget. The sound levels and editing are inconsistent, though such faults are less evident on the small screen than on the large. Some of the visual contrasts and transitions don't work smoothly, though the DVD edit improves on earlier screenings.<br/><br/>Yet if you're in the mood for an audacious esthetic goulash — not at all evenly cooked to one consistency of tone — that combines thriller, comedy, musical, camp, satirical, and political sensibilities, you will very likely be well-entertained.
The initial version was shown at various film festivals and public screenings in 2008 and 2009, with repeated editing tweaks.<br/><br/>In Fall 2009, the director and editor created a "Special Preview Edition" (SPE) after their final intended go-round of editing. This version runs 116 minutes, and was placed on DVD with scene selections.<br/><br/>The SPE was circulated to critics and private parties until it was made available at Amazon.com through video-on-demand in Spring 2010, and through DVD-on-demand pressings in Spring 2011. The SPE has also been used in additional public and film-festival screenings.<br/><br/>A commercial-sponsorship arrangement is being implemented in Fall 2011, making the film available for free on the Web at http://goo.gl/HfU2c<br/><br/>Basically, the commercial sponsorship arrangement is an infomercial at the beginning of the film and the "availability for free" is simply a Youtube upload. Perhaps unknown to all parties involved, you don't need a sponsor or an infomercial to upload a film to Youtube. This said, the infomercial is well worth woatching, if only for its unintentional comedic value.<br/><br/>This arrangement is also planned to result in DVD and Blu-ray releases with a director's commentary track, deleted scenes, and other special features. It will also be available to broadcast, cable, and satellite TV. All these formats will use the SPE and be accompanied by advertising.<br/><br/>More information on the sponsored edition is available on the director's blog at http://goo.gl/ylBZs No. It was available for purchase from amazon, but was withdrawn from sale. This just after a number of negative reviews and a drop in the rating, though the timing could simply be coincidental. No. Apart from one scene where a couple of badly edited pistol-shots are fired at an SUV, there is very little in the way of action in this film. There is a laughably poor "car-chase", but it is about as exciting and suspenseful as synchronized swimming. No. Not in a traditional sense. Where the film tries to be funny, it fails spectacularly. However, like many films of this quality, (Mano:Hands Of Fate, The Room, Birdemic), there is immense comedy to be gleaned from the script, direction, editing and acting (or lack of, more accurately). No. It is not thrilling in the least. There is nothing suspenseful about this film, despite efforts to make it so. a5c7b9f00b the Privateer hindi dubbed free downloadIn the Name of God full movie in hindi 720pG ngster in hindi movie downloadDon't Leave Me movie hindi free downloadInk tamil dubbed movie downloadThe Jurassic Games movie in hindi dubbed downloadLastman full movie hd 1080pSilks and Saddles song free downloadTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles download movie freeThe Shadow Man in hindi free download
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