Lethal Dose

Story was original and the actors acted their parts well. Best of all, one of the actors was Tom Hardy.

LD 50 (Simon de Selva, 2003)Is it really possible to give a good review to any movie containing a Spice Girl? I guess nothing's out of the question, but LD 50 is not the movie that will prove this particular rule of thumb wrong. Well, okay, it's not an entirely unredeemable film, but it's certainly not going to turn ex-Spice Girl Melanie Brown into as big a movie star as she was a pop star.The film starts off with a disbanded animal rights activist group receiving a call for help from one of the former members. The others get back together to try and rescue him from the animal testing lab where he's being held prisoner, but the hunters quickly become the hunted as the owners of the lab start putting the activists through grueling mental, emotional, and ultimately physical tests. Will any of them escape?Thing is, we don't care. None of these characters has enough depth for us to invest any emotion in the outcome. It's your typical slasher film, with the only variation on the theme being that technology takes the place of the big knife. Put together a bunch of people, add a killer, and for the most part, you can throw such niceties as character development, a complex script, etc. out the window, and that's pretty much what de Selva (an actor by trade directing his first, and to date last, movie) does here. Still, there are some inventive kills, so if you're into that sort of thing and it's enough to carry a movie for you, then this should be right up your alley. Everyone else, hold out for something better. **

This is probably the worst movie I have seen in years. It has no redeeming qualities at all (and that is including a couple of minutes of ultra cute and youthful Tom Hardy). Even when I thought it should be over, it just went on and on and on - really awful. OK, I admit it I had to sit through to the end just to assure myself that there was an end. There is, but I have no idea who was in the boat.

Movie is interesting and different. For a lower budget movie I think they did very well with it. I enjoyed it :)

It drew me in at the beginning and the killing in the middle, but near the end was stupidly confusing. Normally whatever you see on the cover on the title is what you would be expecting to see. Instead of some "cybernetic-type monster", you got something else, I'm not going to ruin the surprise.

Well, even after reading all of the negative reviews, I got curious and had to see for myself just how bad all the people said it was. Also, I'm a big fan of Tom Hardy's, so I just had to take a look.Having said that, I've seen movies that were MUCH worse, right here on Amazon. Several come to mind as I write this, but I don't need to rehash the really bad ones.So, in LETHAL DOSE, at least most of the actors were good, the story was interesting, but did move at a snail's pace! if the writers, director and editor had done a better job, it could've been pretty good for one of those "disease of the week" stories. In closing, I just wanted to say that compared to the hundreds (if not thousands) of movies I've watched over the course of my life, this one was definitely NOT one of the worst.

Friends go to a hidden governmental experimentation facility/ laboratory to rescue a friend and walk into a deatly trap. Tom Hardy is great.

The film is a typical super-low budget sci-fi horror flick. They're in an underground bunker maze thing and they all start getting knocked off one by one. I actually watched it twice and still have no idea what was going on with the magnets and the electricity and the weird noise that caused people to get sick. And why was that rat bite poisonous?But, you know what? I kind of don't care because, as usual, Tom Hardy kicks @$$. He has several good moments in the film. And for those 2-3 moments, I'll probably watch the movie again because it's got Tom Hardy in it.