RANA: THE LEGEND OF SHADOW LAKE
Sucks, sucks, sucks. It sucks! I hate it.
Boy does this movie suck. All the good I can say about this one is that it has two nifty slow-mo shots, and a lot of pretty scenery. Other than that - SUCK!
Rana is described, by a crazy old man who obviously needs help with his fractions, as "Half man, half frog, half...I don't know". Basically, if you've seen the box for this movie (and yes, the movie's as bad as the box), he's the silly looking mask perched atop some guy painted green. Actually, it's two guys - yes, this is a role of such complexity that no fewer than two men could pull it off.
He lives in Shadow Lake (duh), protecting a horde of gold that nobody finds out about until near the end of the movie. No, the people on the island in the middle of the lake are either looking for a hot spring (what are loggers doing looking for a hot spring?) or frog fossils. But Rana doesn't care what you're looking for, he'll kill ya anyway.
Just lame and pathetic from beginning to end, one's left wondering how anybody could have scraped together enough investors that actually thought this was a good idea. Ah well, filmed with a budget that can't be substantially higher than twenty-five bucks, I guess investors weren't exactly a concern.
View if you really, really hate life and need an excuse to end it all.