Bad Ass
Do you have any idea who the Epic Beard man is? If the answer is ‘no’, just wait. Two years back, in Oakland, California, on a local bus, two men clashed physically. There was no reason for this, but 67 year old Epic Beard man managed to wear the younger man like a hood ornament. The latter’s attempt at filming this climactic sequence captured the gold. It is easy to imagine that such footage would see a day to day basis with so many amateur camera wielders reaching the ranks of YouTube level famous, filming warm cases of some fame-hunger morons brawling Youtube-style.
But this one went viral, mainly because Epic Beard Man was wearing a T-shirt that says “I AM A MOTHERFUCKER” on it, out of sheer coincidence. People’s imaginations reacted and drew comparisons with Charles Bronson’s starring role in Death Wish, and that naturally gave birth to Bad Ass, a feature film based on a three-minute viral video. Like if ‘Bad Ass’, movie, were to be an adaptation of a thirty pager children’s book whereby three pages out of those thirty pages are cut out, it makes the picture worse. Let us assume EPIC BEARD MAN pictured above his baddie in a baddie movie and baddie on a baddie movie.
In the words of veteran war hero Frank Vega, played by Danny Trejo, there is a part veteran muscle behind his every move. Voiced expressions resonate with those returning soldiers as Vega who returned to the states after the Vietnam War and had resentment towards him for serving the country. He then began a hotdog selling business but his fate turned around when he fought back against a group of skinheads and became an internet sensation.
He is respected and called “Badass” in the neighborhood, personally he made it to the police force, and he was riding a good wave. It all changes when his friend Klondike played by Harrison Page passes him a thumb drive and tells him to keep it safe. Frank didn’t even know what a thumb drive was, the friendship was doomed by the end of this episode of the show. When Klondike gets shot dead, the law enforcers don’t even chase the case. Frank becomes relentless for revenge and everything after goes according to plans.
Now, let us assume that you already know about Epic Beard Man. He has also been filmed talking about Vietnam sometime after the first viral video. Epic Beard Man wore the same “I AM A MOTHERFUCKER” shirt as Trejo wears and both share the same love for the fanny pack as well.
Aside from that, I suppose it would take a movie to capture the attention of those who are interested in the actual plot, because what Bad Ass serves us is a poorly executed take of an octogenarian revenge fantasy starting off with conservative suburbia and not the Bronx, so that chime in when the Families next door claim Frank, who ends up being in a strange, but inviting, relationship with one of them. Frank’s sought after digital MacGuffin is pursued by a man called Panther (Charles S. Dutton), an external contractor employed by the corrupt Mayor of the City (Ron Pearlman).
There were rumors that the Bad Ass movie was a setup, after the launch of its trailer. It sounds rather improbable that Trejo, an actor of his stature, would bother with such things, in view of Craig Moss’ awful history of low budget spoof feature films that went directly to video: Breaking Wind and The 41-Year-Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and Felt Superbad About It.
It is just about understandable that there is some doubt in regards to the amount of the enthusiasm of the trailer being justified within 90 minutes. Bad Ass does not even have a being a true narrative structure, most of its characters consist of a rigid set of odd costume choices, and quite a number of its lead performers, who are the first to admit that these parts are just fee-earning routines, really do not care much.
Maxing out on himself is where Bad Ass succeeds in allying itself to a low-grade Hobo With a Shotgun. It is yet another failed attempt at grindhouse cinema which has discovered a fan base of such movies, but not the reasons why such a fan base was created in the first instance. The film at hand goes on to prove that the type of film creator who creates exploitation films such as Bad Ass is nachural: creators of We know what we’re talking about viral videos which everybody seems to be creating these days Opening credits of the video, footage of then Frank’s Shotput is seen More than once.
Bad Ass ultimately, aims everything at its target audience Bad Ass and all the movies it’s horrible towards both do two completely different things that essentially, Exploitation Films are. There is a need for something or the other in the audience whether it is blood or nudity or even both; and the audience desires to see someone was it the poor Epic Beard Man or the unfortunate average it is simply someone being made a fool of. There is no need to say it but in the case Moss’s intention here is pretty clear and he is looking for humiliation but that is not how they make it in Bad Ass.
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