Bunker: Project 12
Personally, I do not really care what IMDb rates such films but still, I believe some of the numbers do mean something, particularly regarding the feature-in question, Jaime Falero’s second feature and Vision Films’ newest embark, Bunker: Project 12. There are not many that stand out in the film circuit that are not boosted by some actors and so it is no surprise actor Eric Roberts has generated a lot of buzz for this film by constantly being cast in low-budget films. It is annoying because for the most part these films are poorly constructed and Eric Roberts is a fantastic actor who ought to get better roles.
Noteworthy is a cast featuring Tony Corvillo, Joaquin Sanchez, Timothy Gibbs, Natasha Alam and James Cosmo where a group of mercenaries is hired by an enthusiastic arms industrialist looking for long lost underground soviet bunker with the assistance of their hostage, an emaciated military scientist whose life is being sought after by Russian agents sent specifically to ensure the program is permanently deactivated. What follows is a series of back-stabbing, dead people, and loyalty issue along with the side effects of being the proud owner of the reborn, self-sufficient and very difficult to kill Soviet super soldiers and their A.I. equivalent.
The first half hour of this film was the worst for me; at that point, however, the story was actually interesting for once, even though there was a lot that could have turned up the energy and enthusiasm of the dialogue and script that just wasn’t. Most of the acting is credible on its own even if the amount of fighting scenery displayed when it happens is actually realistic, which is rare and few and far between and leaves much for the rest of the movie to be desired as we are spoon-fed the painful sight of our heroes shooting whole rounds into the super-85564 soldiers characters.
Every so often, the human actors in this film such as Sanchez, Gibbs, Alam, and Cosmo become of great interest as the interwoven plots take their course. But, once more, the answer to my question is in the script which is quite problematic as it has at least two of our characters for the duration of the film – rather racist overtones, does the director and his crew manage to keep on the suspense; For linear plots, I was constantly in and out fifty percent of the picture and had to go over most of the film again with disappointment for this review to gather whatever information I could to attempt an opinion. This is no small number of exasperated exhalations either in relation to what we had to endure in order to produce an opinion.
Sanchez comes off as the most likeable, round character in the film, so I hoped at least he’d manage to survive through some of the most saddening and anticlimactic deaths I’ve witnessed in film. For the record, I severely underestimated how many of the principal characters wound up dead at the conclusion of the film, with just over half the principals still standing.
It is not surprising that Roberts is the strongest actor here, so he tries to carry as much as possible with whatever he is given in the film, which can be quite engaging. And that is all there is to it, to be honest. The entire core premise which has our characters taking on these resurrected super soldiers is squandered with not enough focus on the film’s principal cast and though I don’t quite blame Falero for opting to do that and mostly because all the super soldiers sequences can be rather explained as these acting in front of a green screen and flames and strutting towards them slinging guns in any case, it feels like a complete waste, nevertheless.
Bunker: Project 12: At this stage in his career, Eric Roberts is mostly a performer, only caring about how many minutes he can accumulate of screen time in his role. For any audience members who remain on the screens, everything else is effective in that respect but quite dull. If that is the aim of the film, then at least let them have the surrendering fight scene between Sanchez and Gibbs which is probably the most badass if not the only good scene in the film overall. With the ending as it stands in Bunker: Project 12, it is uncertain how to describe this film; if it had been leading up to this scene the entire time, it probably would hold much higher regard than it did and have Eric Roberts in it too!
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