G.O.D. (2001)

User Rating:

3.6/10   

Director:

Dean Rusu

Writer:

Dean Rusu (writer)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Thriller

Tagline:

Life holds no promises.

Plot:

A lonely truck driver teams up with a retired security expert to derail a sophisticated white slave trafficking operation. |

Plot Keywords:

Entire Title Is Capitalized Acronym

Cast

Jalal Merhi	...	Ray Stanton
Olivier Gruner	...	Adrian Kaminski
David Carradine	...	Norman Williams
Justine Priestley	...	Lisa Belmont
Josh Barker	...	Austin Kaminsky
Lisa Crosato	...	Linda
Darren Shahlavi	...	Hitman #3
Erica Carroll	...	Ann Stanton
Stuart Nemtin	...	Trevor Brennan
Maureen Cusack	...	Donna Brennan
Joanna Mason	...	Adele Belmonte
Chuck Depape	...	Nigel Torton
Scott Elam	...	Stavro
Ian Case	...	Wayne
Patrick Phillips	...	Howard Rittman

Also Known As:

Guaranteed Overnight Delivery (USA) (video title)
Guaranteed on Delivery (USA) (complete title)

MPAA:

Rated R for violence and language.

Runtime:

Germany:91 min

Country:

Canada | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Germany:16 | USA:R

Company:

Amsell Entertainment

Goofs:

Crew or equipment visible: At the end when the actors are talking near a car, the right car door is opened. While open, it reflects a boom mic.

Movie Connections:

References The Seven Year Itch (1955)

Well... it was filmed in the city I live in...

...and that's about all the positive stuff I can say about this movie. Actually, scratch even that, because the murky and dark photography make my city look horrible. Speaking of "horrible", that's what can be described about everything else in this movie. Jalal Merhi is horrible; not only is his acting bad (sometimes his accent makes it impossible to make out what he's saying), his martial arts sequences are unbelievably amateurish and boring.

Olivier Gruner, on the other hand, gets NO opportunity to perform martial arts. Yes, they hired a martial arts actor, and NOT ONCE does he do any martial arts! David Carradine looks badly weathered and ill, sluggishly doing the little he's given.

Though running just 90 minutes, I swear it felt more like 150. The movie is so slow, so boring, so uneventful that it soon became agony to watch. Even masochists would have a problem sitting through this. Even die-hard fans of Gruner or Carradine would be better off passing this up. As well as fans of Merhi - that is, if he has any left after the long string of absolutely awful movies he's made during his "acting" career.