The Final Level: Escaping Rancala

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Getting released just three days before the remake of Jumanji, this mockbuster from The Asylum is way better than their usual fare, having plenty of humor and some heart. Back when Sarah (Jessica Chancellor, who created and stars in the Mystery Incorporated series that's a more adult version of Scooby Doo) was a kid, her brother Jake (Brandon Root) disappeared from an arcade after playing the game Rancala. Years later, she's opening an arcade in tribute to him along with her friends Rae (Tiana Tuttle) and Chrissy (Emily Sweet, who was in the remake of Castle Freak). As they ready for the opening, someone has already been playing Rancala and using an icon that looks like Jake. All three are sucked into the game and become near-super heroic as they look for Sarah's lost brother. Directed by Canyopn Price, who wrote the script with Daniel Lusko, this actually has a pretty fun story, some video game moments and a Sharknado first boss. I agree with other reviewers that this would be much better if every character the girls battle came from an Asylum movie, but that would require more thought than The Asylum gives to their films. Also: Bai Ling is in this for approximately three minutes.

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Are into gaming? That is one of the first things that you may think is important here .. to be honest it does not matter too much, although there are few hints about gaming and role playing (not that kind, the kind you get points to enlarge your ... skills). This is as low budget as it gets. I like the actors involved, even if they don't really seem to be much acting. As in they play themselves - I seriously didn't plan on so much innuendo .. on the other hand, if you consider how little they are wearing some may be excused of having certain thoughts. On the other hand you could also think girl power! And having Bai Ling somewhere mixed into this actually strengthens that point. Special effects are not really good overall, maybe at the beginning with the dissapearing act - but mostly you'd have to really give this quite the break. If you don't mind, this is as mindless fun as it can get I reckon ... never ever start thinking about it though ... you'll spoil everything

Every now and then I see a poster of a movie that makes me think "That's familiar, I bet its by "that company"" And then I watch it to make sure it is by "that company" and then I see the starting credits and yeah, its by Asylum and I get to have a slight chuckle about their goofiness. I watched and fast forwarded through most of it. I didn't hate what I saw, I didn't fall in love either, but rather good for Asylum. I feel sorry for the actors in these movies, but they do what they can.

Well, with this being a movie by The Asylum, you pretty much know what you are getting yourself into here before you start watching the movie. Still, I opted to sit down to watch the 2019 movie "The Final Level: Escaping Rancala" for two reasons; first of all, the movie had Bai Ling headlined on the cover, and also because there is an odd chance that The Asylum actually does put something worthwhile out every now and again. "The Final Level: Escaping Rancala" failed on both levels - pardon the pun. Bai Ling was hardly in the movie for even five minutes, but of course she was the most famous person in the movie, so of course The Asylum headlined her on the cover. And then secondly, this movie wasn't particularly great. The storyline told in "The Final Level: Escaping Rancala" felt like a watered down version of "Jumanji" with a pinch of "Mortal Kombat" or "Street Fighter" to it. Not really a great combo. And it worked out even less well given the fact that the storyline was just downright laughable. The acting in the movie wasn't actually as bad as you might think for a movie such as this. With that being said, you will not find yourself in for a grand Shakespearian experience either with the performances found in the movie. The CGI effects in the movie were questionable. Some of them was passable, while others just screamed 1990s computer game. And the fight scenes were just wonderfully scripted and equally wonderfully choreographed, lacking a fluidity to it and a natural movement between the participants. Spice that up with flashes of lights and strange arcade punching sounds whenever someone was kicked or punched, then you know what you are in for here. "The Final Level: Escaping Rancala" was watchable, but hardly all that entertaining. I managed to endure the entire movie, but this is not a movie that I will return to watch a second time, ever. My rating of the 2019 movie lands on a mere three out of ten stars.

Yes acting not, the greatest, or visual effects, but I actually enjoyed to watch that movie, I like the concept. It's not triple A movie, it's a B movie and as a b movie it's good, definitely worth watching.

The moment one realizes this is an Asylum film, all expectations pretty much leave the building, screaming. And rightly so. The acting wasn't bad, considering the poor script and bad directing. I mean, actors can only do so much with 3rd grade play dialog. General summary: idea straight from Jumanji. Worst. boss. fights. ever. (These "bosses" could pretty much be beat with a small pointy stick... or maybe giving them a wedgie.) The girls did as good a job as they could given the ridiculously slow-moving script, amateur dialog (however, not the worst we've seen from Asylum) and yawner situations. Seriously, halfway through the viewers want to enter the game ourselves with a baseball bat and take out all the adversaries in about... oh 5 minutes or so. It's. that. bad. Not the worst Asylum film I've seen, which is why I give it 2 stars instead of 1. Favorite line of the movie: "You think this game was designed by guys?" Yeah, pretty sure the movie was too. The really sad thing here is that even with Asylum's limited resources, they could have come up with better boss fights than presented here. One felt like shouting, "Just kick him in the tenders and get on with it!" So we have to wonder why someone in the effects team didn't put in just a little more effort and make it a lot more interesting. It really wouldn't have been more expensive or more difficult to put some of the special effects we've seen in other asylum films into this one. They started out well enough with the sharknado... and then it just stops. If one goes in expecting yet-another-Asylum-film... that's exactly what you'll get. The three actresses are a bit more talented than usual, but that's about all that can be said for this. It's not exactly a train wreck, but the train comes to a very slow, limping halt about a mile short of the station.

Ok when I first started this movie I thought that , ok so far not too bad, pretty low budget but seems fairly solid, but later when we get into the freaking movie it's literally trying to be like The Asylums version of the Marvel Cinematic Universe where there's several homages to The Asylums past project, when the sharks start raining the sky I'm like "What is this? A Sharknado crossover or something?". That's not the only thing wrong with this film, next up you're gonna see crappy CGI animals that look like they were taken from those 3D models that look like they're right there in front of you that you find on google with your phone, also some of the line delivery's from the main protagonists are sometimes atrocious and very cliche. This movie is terrible and this is rather embarrassing to be a part of because this is gonna become part of your acting legacy and the public will take it mostly an offense that a company is ripping off a 132 million dollar big budget movie and those people that have a connection with these actresses will hate what they have signed up for. 2/10 (awful)