To be perfectly honest, I was a bit too old to catch the original Power Rangers bug when it bit, and I've never looked back. A year or two ago, I had received via a home video distributor a one-off 'Red Ranger' title that I watched and penned a review for, but it just wasn't my 'thing.' However, the franchise certainly has demonstrated some staying power, and that says something in this day and age.
Well, lo and behold some secret fan of the whole Power Rangers shebang went and financed his own version of a Rangers reboot. As is the demand of the marketplace these days for more dark and edgy material, Joseph Kahn's film (a presentation by Adi Shankar) casts a pall of doom over the entire affair. Heck, it even gives the grown up superheroes more than a few F-bombs to sling healthily about ... so consider yourselves warned. The language is definitely NSFW.
Still, there's a winning charm to the whole encounter. It's gritty. It's reasonably action-packed. It even has a fair sense of black humor what with the blood splatter and maybe even a few in-jokes for those who followed the Rangers much closer than I. As I said, I didn't, but I still caught a few zingers directed out toward the audience and who they worshiped as heroes.
Enjoy!
Well, lo and behold some secret fan of the whole Power Rangers shebang went and financed his own version of a Rangers reboot. As is the demand of the marketplace these days for more dark and edgy material, Joseph Kahn's film (a presentation by Adi Shankar) casts a pall of doom over the entire affair. Heck, it even gives the grown up superheroes more than a few F-bombs to sling healthily about ... so consider yourselves warned. The language is definitely NSFW.
Still, there's a winning charm to the whole encounter. It's gritty. It's reasonably action-packed. It even has a fair sense of black humor what with the blood splatter and maybe even a few in-jokes for those who followed the Rangers much closer than I. As I said, I didn't, but I still caught a few zingers directed out toward the audience and who they worshiped as heroes.
Enjoy!
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