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Well, this movie has reignited media's interest in 'movies that are so bad it's good' again...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy40e08k1p0o

Number one in the list of bad movies (as in, just really poor) at the end is my consistent 'wish I hadn't seen it' movie: Ballistic: Ecks vs Sever.

Curious to see Samurai Cop though....

Honestly the more I hear of the plot the more it sounds like a concept script for a "Scary Movie" franchise film - just the really early draft before they added the jokes and the in-references and such.

It could have gone that way for sure.

I still think the underlying and completely ignored “cyber stalking your family is creepy AF” has legs as a concept, especially in an emergency situation.

It’d be an extremely different film, but one I’d like to see a competent director and script writer tackle. Mostly because I’m of a mind that should the apocalypse come? I’m not one to want to survive it. So to have a cyber stalker guide their prey somewhere safe, leaving just the two of them together could ask interesting questions about the right of self determination.

Yeah, there's actually an interesting concept in there somewhere about surveillance, trust and manipulation. It's just kind of hilarious that in that version of the movie the protagonist here is the villain, not the good guy.

Having now trudged through the whole sorry mess that was this film (while painting, so as not to rot my brain any further), I have to say the absolute worst part is not the acting, not the tone-deaf vindication of the main character's cyber stalking, or the stupidity of "eating data", or the more advance stupidity of eating that data requiring a physical invasion. All those things are laughable. What I can't stomach is the Amazon product placement that is so painful it feels like it was pitched by a class of 10-year-olds. Sadly I can easily see a boardroom full of marketing types high-fiving themselves while watching that sequence.