Range 15 (2016) Reviews

• Meh, a real review... a few spoilers

  wmiklos-880022016-07-12

  This review contains a few spoilers. I looked forward to this movie and saw Range 15 in the theater. My friend who came with me and myself are both Army veterans. The movie was disappointing though and while there were a few funny parts, the audience and ourselves were not laughing through-out the film as claimed by some other people. All the cussing was funny at first but then it just grew old and seemed to be used more as a script filler for lack of anything better. Dark humor and violence has its place in a movie like this, but it just got weird and awkward at times, as if the writers were trying too hard for material. Indeed, there were loads of inappropriate jokes - which a lot of veterans enjoy, but too many of these jokes were extremely disrespectful and hateful - well past the point of being funny and beyond most of the audience's comfort zone. The audience was nearly 100% veteran or active duty as we live near a major Army post and other military assets. SPOILER ALERT. I agree with other reviews that nothing was left untouched - women, cleavage, sex scenes, sex toys, penises, amputations, killing children, butts, spewing blood, and so on. I know a subset of the veteran community likes this humor, but it certainly does not represent ALL of the veteran community, not by a long shot. My friend left the theater for a while because the movie had just become so lame. SPOILER ALERT. I might add that there were very few zombies. If a group's going to make a film about zombies then have zombies! Don't just throw a handful of folks into make-up and give the main actors a script that claims the whole world is in danger. Where was the real danger ever? I gave the film only 2 stars as an average between the script/plot and the acting/cast. I gave 0 stars for the script/plot - it was distasteful and lame: just too weird or too hateful and reaching for laughs but way too far past the point of being funny. I gave the acting/cast 4 stars because it was OK. Aside from rating the movie, all the efforts and length these folks went to in order to get the movie made - well, that deserves 10 stars and congratulations to them. All these other reviews giving the actual movie 10 stars, though, seem to be coming from the film makers and their friends. The clout that veterans carry can go very far, but truth be told, this movie's just not that good.

• It is hysterical

  michaelschoepfer2018-07-30

  Alot of people say you have to be a veteran to enjoy this. No you just need a sense of humor. If it werent Marcus Latrell during the scene with the lone survivor joke, I would have been furious, instead I was able to laugh. The humor is self deprecating but if it were not veterans making these jokes the veteran community would be outraged. So when I see some people interpret it like this is what Marines really are, yes we can make fun ourselves but you cannot and you are sadly mistaken about us. We have cheerful dispositions and a great sense of humor, it is a comedy, lighten up and just allow yourself and you might just enjoy it.

• Stupid and funny. Better than Ghostbusters

  equilibrium102016-10-03

  Yeah, so, little background: 5 years in the Marines as a Scout Sniper. Good times and some of the dirtiest and stupidest jokes man has ever contrived. Range 15, a lot like this. Matt Best is a corny jackass so why would the film he has master minded be anything different? Some parts of this are utterly useless while in other parts I was laughing out loud, that jokes worked. It's funny, it's stupid, it's meaningless and it's different than anything else floating around right now. In short, at least it isn't another f$%#ing re-boot. Oorah for that.

• False ratings, movie is one of the worst I've seen

  confirmeddeath2016-08-15

  Firstly, I don't really care for rating movies on IMDb I only care for looking at the ratings to determine the "quality" of the movie... to determine whether it's worth watching or not. 8.5/10... That's the worst rating I've ever seen, it's so far from what the actual rating should be and honestly this is one of the biggest false ratings I've seen on IMDb and hence rating this movie 1 out of 10 to make the rating represent what the movie actual is rather than a big lie, but had the rating not been so off I'd given it 3/10 on a generous day. The movie... It tries to be comedic, but it fails. I actually can't see how somebody could think that the "funny" acts in this movie would be funny... I would give myself a medal of honor for enduring this movie. Let's be honest, even if people had a weird and twisted sense of humor, at best the rating would be 4-5 out of 10, but 8.5 out of 10? I understand people like to falsely rate movies when the crappy movie has their favorite actors in them and all that but I actually truly don't understand 8.5/10 with over 2k+ ratings... EDIT: Going through the "reviews" I had to come back and edit my "review"... I don't actually know what to say other than that this pisses me off, crappy movie gets good ratings because of idiots meanwhile really good movies get crappy ratings because of idiots. I... got... no... words... to... explain... what... this... is... This was more of a rant than a review but rating a movie for any other reason than rating the movie angers me, that's not what the rating system is for... EDIT2: Would be nice if IMDb had a mass "block/ignore" option that you can use to ignore future ratings by people who voted a certain movie above 5, that way in the future you wouldn't watch another movie rated 8+/10 that sucks and confuses you for a whole hour and makes you question What The Actual Fu...dge!

• terrible movie

  bigrob-423882016-08-19

  I want to preface this that I am an active duty soldier with 7 years in special operations. I thought that being in the military this comedy would resonate with me. This was absolutely terrible. Nothing about this movie was funny. I thought there would be a good amount of team room humor in this movie. It failed to live up to expectations. I related to absolutely nothing this movie tried to play up as comedy. I gave it a 3 because it was just barely enough to keep my attention. this was more in part bc i wanted to see how the fucktardery was going to end. The sponsor plugs were absolutely annoying and definitely added to the poor quality of the film. i would watch Sharknado again over this movie.