Review – Vampires: Los Muertos

You might want to sit down for this one: Jon Bon Jovi is the best actor in this whole movie. Seriously. The female lead has to be the director’s girlfriend or something, because she pretty much makes Mariah Carey look like Meryl Streep. And speaking of people finding jobs for their friends, Tommy Lee Wallace should count himself darn lucky to still be good buds with John Carpenter. Though Wallace has done good work in the past, he isn’t exactly keeping a streak alive here. His awkward screenplay and prosaic direction run a neck-and-neck race for worst element of the movie, which is saying a great deal considering the stiff competition from the stiff cast. All that set aside, however, the thing that really floored me was that they managed to set the movie in Mexico during the Day of the Dead festivities, yet the art direction was so mediocre that the whole thing looks like it was shot in San Diego over a long, boring Memorial Day weekend. Bad as the first John Carpenter vampire movie was, this one actually manages to top it in the stink competition. See if desperate