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This movie exceeded my expectations in the worst way possible. Let's analyze it section by section:

Acting:
- The acting was astoundingly terrible. First, there's a girl who's supposed to have a british accent, but it fluctuates between british, southern, new england, and a few other ones during the course of the film, none of which were believable anyway.
- There was a hispanic man who was somehow supposed to be asian.
- I'm almost certain the lead character was Phil Collins.
- All of the acting flowed like a fourth grade play on the four food groups.

Special Effects

I understand completely that this movie had a low budget and couldn't afford Industrial Light and Magic to come in and create a beautiful realistic CG representation of purgatory, but if you don't have it DON'T flaunt it.
Every three seconds you're whisked away to a wonderland of horrid CG that looks to have been made by the director's 38 year old cousin who lives in his mom's basement.
I can accept that purgatory is a fantastic place that would be hard to fully capture with nothing but sets and on-camera special effects, and using cg, even if it's pretty hokey CG for establishing shots and such. Unfortunately this movie seemed to take great pride in it's horrible CG and used it for scenes it could have easily just shot (i.e. a car driving, an actor walking in a field, an actor standing up in a church). It's not like they'd be wasting film, the whole thing looked to be shot on DV.

To be completely honest, i didn't get all the way through this movie due to a faulty DVD i rented. I think there was divine intervention involved in order to save me from the suicide this movie was going to drive me to.

in summary

horrible plot + deplorable acting + (terrible special effects x overusing the hell out of them) = total crap movie (and not in a good way).

Bizarre
There are some interesting ideas in Despiser, certainly, but it's hard to deny that the film is a mess. Tacky CG aside, the acting is sub-par and the plot is full of holes and never seems totally cohesive. You'll find yourself asking, "Why are there malls or car dealerships in purgatory?" or "How long have they been driving down that bridge?" Character development isn't great, either, with an older, wise, black man doing what older, wise black men do in these films and a Japanese character who looks more Latino than anything else.

It's the kind of film you and your buddies might rent for laughs (you get to see the main character fight one of those tiny, plastic, pink-haired trolls on more than one occasion), but I can virtually guarantee that it's not worth paying $25 or more for.

Small-Budget, Big Results
Wow. Can you believe that someone has mixed the real life realm with the CG realm? Sure, its done all the time... but what makes this film special is that it didn't have the hundreds of thousands of dollars to do it... With a small budget, Cook brought the Despiser to life... I think what's wrong with audiences today is that they refuse to accept things that aren't done like everything else... Imagination is a beautiful thing... personally, I really dug how the CG and video were welded together... It's something I hadn't seen before and I admired it... The story was awesome and the characters were really likeable... All in all, great job! Good work!