Supercon
Film
Review by Kam Williams
Back
in the Eighties, Keith Mahar (Russell Peters) was a child actor who
found fame playing the young sidekick to charismatic Adam King
(Clancy Brown) on a hit TV series. But after the show was canceled,
Keith's career collapsed and his parents frittered away his pay by
the time he became an adult.
Consequently,
he's been reduced to eking out a living on one of the lowest rungs of
the showbiz ladder. Namely, he spends his weekends signing autographs
and posing for pictures at nostalgic comic conventions run by Adam
and attended by crazed fans wearing costumes of their favorite
characters.
Keith
and his fellow has-beens have no idea that Adam has been skimming
money off the top of the purse with the help of his trash-talking
assistant, Gil (Mike Epps). But when evidence of the scam surfaces,
he and a few other fading stars hatch an elaborate plan to rob the
crooked promoter rather than report the theft of services to the
authorities.
That
is the improbable point of departure of Supercon, a campy action
comedy directed by Zak Knutson (Milius). Provided you're willing to
buy into the picture's wacky premise, you're likely to find the
ensuing turn of events entertaining.
Knutson
certainly assembled a talented cast to execute the zany script he
co-wrote with Andy Sipes and Dana Snyder. Among the thespians
featured are comedian Mike Epps, two-time Oscar-nominee John
Malkovich (for Places in the Heart and In the Line of Fire) and
Maggie Grace, who played Liam Neeson's daughter in the riveting
suspense thriller Taken. And making an uncredited appearance as Gil's
gay bodyguard is Tyrus, the WWE wrestler-turned-talking head on the
Fox News Channel's Greg Gutfeld Show.
It's
hard to take any of Supercon's over-the-top silliness seriously, and
the increasingly-bizarre hijinks are just funny enough to recommend
for open-minded folks not easily offended by patently
politically-incorrect fare.
Rated R for crude sexual content, gay slurs, pervasive profanity and drug use
Running time: 98 minutes
Production Studios: Momentum Productions
Distributor: Archstone Distribution
To see a trailer for Supercon, visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0fa6fAFj3A
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