SYNOPSIS:
Nearly a decade after the terrifying events of Pulse 2 the dead still walk the earth - having entered our realm through electronic devices. Justine, raised with her fellow human refugees in the remote no-tech survivor camp, is now a 17-year old girl who dreams of the world they've left behind. When an abandoned laptop links her to a mysterious outside caller, Justine risks everything to see if life has resumed back in the forbidden city. More frightening than ever, Pulse 3 is an intense and shocking conclusion to the Pulse trilogy.
MOVIE REVIEW:
This reviewer can’t think of any reason why anyone who has seen Pulse 2 would even bother with its successor, Pulse 3. For those like me who had a sliver of hope that Pulse 3 would be better, note that this conclusion to what could possibly be the worst film trilogy ever is written and directed by the same guy, Joel Soisson.
Gasp! Just when you thought the filmmakers had reached their absolute low with Pulse 2, know that they have somehow managed to dig an even deeper grave with this abominably awful sequel. Remember the glaring use of green screen? Well, that’s back again. But what makes it worse is that Soisson has mixed scenes filmed against green screen and those filmed on location together. Not only is the result glaringly obvious, it is also goddamn frustrating to watch.
Not that the rest of the movie isn’t- if you thought that Pulse 2 had a weak story, wait till you get to Pulse 3. Soisson retains one key character from the previous movie- the little girl, Justine, whose mother was frantically searching for in Pulse 2, is now in her teens and living in a refugee camp in West Texas where electronics are a strict no-no and food is just as harshly rationed.
What happens to Justine in this movie? She finds a laptop, turns it on, makes contact with someone on IM from Houston who claims that there are people still living in the city, and decides to take a trip to find out for herself. On her road trip, she stumbles upon a gruff black man who chains her up to a radiator a la Black Snake Moan, escapes and then continues on her way. Do I need to tell you she doesn’t find what she hoped for in Houston? Not really since by the time she gets there, you wouldn’t even bother.
And what about the horror and gore that Pulse 3 promises, coming as it is now from the banner of “Dimension Extreme”? Somehow, that got sucked into the vortex of the electronic world too since there is nothing scary nor nauseating worth your attention here- unless you think flickering black and white television images are frightening. Come to think about it, this reviewer doesn’t actually recall anyone getting killed, so really, where’s the threat, the danger, the peril?
Replaced by boredom, that’s what. One and a half hours of seeing British actress Brittany Finamore run about behind a green screen does not a movie make- and it’s a wonder how Joel Soisson has managed to make a movie out of that. The bottom line is this- don’t approach this. At all. If you had the misfortune of doing so, put it on fast forward. You won’t miss a thing.
SPECIAL FEATURES :
This Code 3 DVD contains no extra features.
AUDIO/VISUAL:
The Dolby Digital 5.1 is as bland as the movie. Picture looks grainy especially for the scenes at night, but that’s more an artifact of the movie than the visual transfer of the disc.
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by Gabriel Chong
Posted on 10 December 2009
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