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I’ve been bitten by the cool cover curse yet again, but how could I resist? There’s a hot slut with a power drill and the phrase “Maximum Violence.” Who in their right mind could turn that down? Not me… even though I should have. Johnny Sunshine: Maximum Violence is yet another ultra low-budget film from the Brain Damage Films label, a label that rivals The Asylum for putting out cheap shitty movies. The film is a cross between uhhh… a turd and a titty. While the chick in the film is hot, the rest of the movie is complete garbage.

In a world where zombies have overtaken the world, the rise of snuff porn has replaced traditional entertainment. Johnny Sunshine is a hot fetish doll and underground star thanks to her sexual exploits and onscreen murders of random people. One day, her manager decides he wants to live in the protected and walled cities, away from the zombie menace, and for some reason, that means he has to have Johnny Sunshine killed. Johnny must fight to survive and take it in the butt, if she ever hopes to get her revenge.

The main problem with the film is that it is just too ambitious for its own good. It’s clear that the people on the film weren’t working with much money and that the large nature of the film stretched their budget to the limit. The camerawork is cheap along with the acting and the sets. I’ve seen cell phone videos that looked better than this shit. The film never manages to feel as large as it pretends to be. A club where everyone hangs out feels like someone’s living room. “The world” appears to be composed of drawings, bland rooms, and the occasional industrial area.

Director Matt Yeager has a lot of work to do with his game. The way the story is told is pathetic. The film meanders here and there without ever kicking it up a notch. Yeager’s film feels comprised of tableau, some of which are pointless, and the film is definitely piled high with filler. The lighting is terrible, and the pace of the movie is terribly slow, mostly due to the miserable use of recycled footage. The only thing Yeager gets right, is the abundance of fetish imagery throughout the film… even then, he doesn’t show any taco, so he still has that to improve on.

The acting is strictly low-budget. Everyone in the film appears to be taking it seriously, but they’re just not any good. Shey Bland is beautiful as Johnny Sunshine, but she has all the personality of a garden gnome. Her performance is terribly uneven and the way they try and make her seem like a zombie-killing badass is laughable as she slowly moves to kill people in cheap ways. Eric Halsell, who plays Johnny’s manager Max, looks like a complete douche on film. He seems so pleased with his shitty performance that I almost felt embarrassed for him. The rest of the cast is even worse, and there isn’t a single person here that would be good enough to appear in a Boll flick… and that’s pretty bad.

As far as violence goes, the film is an embarrassment to the phrase “maximum violence.” In fact, if you had never heard the word “maximum” before and you watched this movie you might think it meant cheap, sparse, and uninspired. The scenes with the zombies in the film are fucking pathetic and they seem to be thrown in as an afterthought just to get zombie fans to watch the movie. The special effects are miserable and there’s nothing here to see but a few titties.

Johnny Sunshine: Maximum Violence is an all-around abysmal flick that has nothing going for it, besides a hot lead. Even the story is a bland mishmash of random bullshit, wannabe hard-boiled dialogue, and an ending that is stupid as fuck. There’s nothing here to like.

Final Synopsis: Johnny Sunshine: Maximum Violence is no good. Skip it.

Points Lost: -1 for a shitty story, -1 for stretching the budget too thin, -1 for shit camerawork, -1 for bad sound, -1 for lame animated transition scenes, -1 for bad acting, -1 for misunderstanding the meaning of the word “maximum,” -1 for weak special effects, -1 for not showing any taco

Bonus Points: +1 for a hot chick

Lesson Learned: Double bag it when you fuck a zombie.

Burning Question: How can someone make hot sluts killing and fucking boring?

Johnny Sunshine: Maximum Violence
2/10

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