Blu-ray Review – Villains

Writer/directors Robert Olsen and Dan Berk put viewers in a difficult place with "Villains." The intent of the material is to create a semi-romp with horrible situations of imprisonment and torment, doing so with a darkly comedic tone as wacky characters encounter dire situations of threat and survival. While that approach works in spurts here, most of the feature struggles to make sense of the characters, offering the audience time with two sets of horrible people. Olsen and Berk make their sympathies clear, but it's not so easy for outsiders, with "Villains" pitting morons vs. morons, making it a struggle to cheer on anyone's perseverance when the screenplay doesn't make a clear case for noble intent. It's all meant to be a macabre ride with unpleasant developments, but the fun factor is extremely limited here, with Olsen and Berk skipping most of the fine details as they focus on supplying genre highlights. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com