DVD REVIEW: Impact Point

07/06/08

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The most important thing to keep in mind while watching Impact Point is to keep an open mind and low expectations, and it will not disappoint. What seems to be a mediocre and predictable story would surprise the audience with an elaborated sequence of turns of events that will managed to keep the audience attention and interest for the whole movie. The director did a great job managing to turn an overplayed story into a mildly entertaining and develop feature. Impact point is rated R for violence, language, some sexuality and nudity.

The movie centers in the AVP pro Beach Volleyball, which is definitely a big plus, since the whole movie is surrounded by the beauty and lifestyle this sport comes with, like the settings, parties, rivalries and of course the people. This helps in creating a more comfortable and easy to follow atmosphere for the audience, although sometimes it seems for a moment that the audience is not watching a thriller movie but a TV series like Baywatch or Miami Vice. The script and characters are also kept simple which is a good thing in this kind of movies, since it helps to keep the movie somehow real, the audience will feel sympathy for the character and could relate to them in many different ways. Acting wise, although there are some scenes that were highly forced, most of the cast did a great job performing their role, specially Brian Austin Green and Melisa Keller’s performances were the best I have seen from these actors. They understood and interpreted their character to their best of their abilities. Visually like a said before for this type of movies it delivers; it presents to the audience beautiful settings, and of course a lot of beautiful people, sound wise it is not bad, but I think it could be a little better. In character development the movie disappoints a little since aside the main characters, many of the character are awfully predictable, and some interactions between them seems forced and out of place like the relationship between Kelly and Jen who become friends all of the sudden after been everlasting rivals, and most important of all Green‘s character should have more complexity and elaboration. The ending scene of the movie also might be predictable and disappointing for many viewers, since it does not add anything to the story, I think that if the writers would have put more thought into it the movie would have been much better.

Psycho movies are in my opinion one of the best genre there are, they are suspenseful and always managed to attract viewers. It could be the way this character operates, their motive or even the character’s personality that attracts the audience, and when well managed it will stay in the audience mind for a great period of time, who has not ever hear of Patrick Bateman or Hannibal Lector. Unfortunately for Impact Point, although entertaining this character is not well exploited and like an impacting or shocking news from TV it will manage to catch our attention, but it will eventually fade within a week. I recommended this movie for anyone who has an open mind and time to spare, or to fans of TV Series such as Baywatch and Fast Lane.

Review By Milo
milo@smartcine.com

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VIDEO: Anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1)

AUDIO:
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1
Languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Thai, and French. Subtitles: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Thai, Chinese, and Korean

SPECIAL FEATURES:

Unlike the movie the special features are centered more in volleyball than the actual story. They are not interesting and seem more like filler material than any other thing, the good side is that it has a digital copy for you to transfer it to you portable device.

Serve it Up Training For Impact Point featurette: it shows the training actresses Melissa Keller and Kayla Ewell had to go through to look like professional AVP Players and their impressions on the sport(8:34)

AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Tour Preview: its just a commercial for the AVP tour and where to get tickets(0:32)

2008 AVP Schedule.

Digital Copy to transfer to your portable device.

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