Hero of the Underworld (2016) Reviews

• This movie grows on you!

  tkarlmann2018-10-31

  At first I thought the acting was, well, perhaps not the best. Then I realized we had a definitely flawed main character who's been through a lot. The story intrigued me and the end result was a fine film, IMO.

• Hero to What Underworld?

  nammage2018-04-01

  This film is like those in the restaurant business making a film. Exactly what it felt like from the beginning. Nothing wrong with that, as long as the focus isn't squarely on that. I know this isn't a Comedy but the beginning (minus the opening dream sequence; which was uninteresting) in the hotel, at the front desk, seemed as if that was what they were going for up until the bloody woman walks out of the elevator then it switched hard from trying to be light Comedy to being hard Suspense-Drama. The script coupled with the overacting by Tom Malloy (who should know better being a seasoned actor) and most likely the direction of that scene to make it highly dramatic; with the overcompensating composition playing over the scene, and then the follow through in helping the girl, controlling the situation, arresting the guy with the scene with the police officer...it was awful in the literal sense. It told me the direction of this film. It also tells me that writing out the scenes here is boring, as well. There's also no utilizing here. They're just there to do the scene(s) (it appears) and then move on to the next location. There's a scene where Malloy's character is walking the streets, obviously enough room to where he doesn't have to walk in peoples paths but he keeps doing that, especially at the end when he walks into the path of someone else and the film makes you believe it wasn't his fault because the other dude tried to rob him. I didn't believe the scene at all. This film is one scene after the next of unbelievability. Not that one couldn't believe things shown in this film do not happen but the fact that this film in particular makes you feel that way when watching it. Like Malloy is a guy who works at a hotel as concierge or something and he goes speaks to the police officer and asks for the address of the guest who beat up the girl earlier. The police officer gives him the address all hush hush like. Why? So, then Malloy goes to the guy's place and questions him like he is a police officer himself when he's just some dude who works at a hotel. The unbelievable part of that scene is the guy answers Malloy's questions as if Malloy was a police officer but knowing he's just a guy who works at a hotel. Also, how come Malloy's character couldn't get the guy's address from the hotel he stayed at? This film is one boring scene after the other. What's supposed to be funny, isnt. What's supposed to be dramatic, isn't. What's supposed to be suspenseful, isn't. Nothing is what it is supposed to be because of the direction and script. The only good thing about this film was Erik Aude. While I've heard of films he's been in, I didn't really recognize him. He's barely in this film (he plays Malloy's brother, I think) but he seemed like the only good actor in it. Even the small scene Quinton Aaron (The Blindside) was in was blah. Here's what I think the story is about: a drug addict concierge wants to save the hooker drug addict who was beat up at a hotel from being a drug addict hooker. There are minor flashbacks and dreams Malloy's character has that have to do with the death of his girlfriend or wife, or someone and the Holly character (drug addict hooker) looks like her, or something, and that's why he wants to help her but Malloy's character doesn't notice the contradiction and hypocrisy of that, apparently but at the end Malloy's character decides to go clean from his heroin addiction on his own. No where in this film did I ever believe that his character had the will power to pull off such a thing on his own. Not once. As an aside: I did laugh at the scene where Malloy's character finds out that Linda (Lisa Varga) was murdered. I mean, they tried to make that scene so dramatic but they had Malloy just staring to the side a little while this other hotel worker explains how Linda died (murdered by her husband because she turned tricks after work for more money) from directly behind Malloy, and with the music playing etc., I just laughed my ass off at how so pathetically stupid that scene was.

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• The party could continue

  nogodnomasters2017-09-02

  Amazon description: "Dylan Berrick is the polished and skillful Overnight Manager of the Century Grand, one of the most classy and upscale hotels in the city. After a shocking night, when a woman named Holly is nearly beaten to death in the hotel by her boyfriend Davis, Dylan takes it upon himself to seek out Holly and become her savior, rescuing her from the drug underworld that he himself is familiar with." Holly (Nicole Fox) was beat up, but not "nearly beaten to death." Dylan (Tom Malloy) wants to save Holly from a street life, while he suffers from the same demons. While the Century Grand is a posh hotel, it has elements that are close to the street. Dylan is great at what he does because of his street smarts, but his job suffers when he suffers. The film is a good drama. It is not a vigilante film as the title might suggest. A bit on the slow side, not for everyone. Good performances. Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity. Sex talk.

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• Addict Dylan relapsing after the death of his girlfriend helps a young girl who gets beat up by boyfriend.

  beckma2016-12-06

  If you are looking for action not this but being in the life's situation like Dylan I liked how he took it upon himself to be that Hero to a stranger an got real emotional over this woman's situation. Trying to do drugs to help numb the pain is a major reason why people let themselves get into that underworld of illegal drugs to change the life style they were living. The only action in this movie is when Dylan thinks the girl that got beat up was dead not answering his calls and the recent death of Linda, a known call girl at the Hotel where Dylan worked at night I would like to know what he whispered to her at the ending left you wondering.I did like the working situation at the Hotel Dylan worked at with everyone watching each others back so they would not get fired.

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