the adventures of johnny tao

i was hoping to like this one. the description of it sounded like a cool asian meets rockabilly style fun, but in reality its just an expensive home movie that wouldnt even make the cut as a saturday night movie on syfy. the whole thing just reeks of amateurishness. the acting is high school play level, and the effects are something that can be bested by anyone with an editing program on their home computer. it actually looks like they spent more making this poster (which by the way, looks infinitely better than anything on the screen during the actual film) than they did on the entire film! the story (if you can call it that) follows a boy who's country singing father died in a crash a decade earlier. well, it just so happens that his guitar was fashioned out of a magical spear needed to kill an evil chinese spirit who has recently returned to arizona (really? why would the spear be found in arizona when the last battle that put the spirit away for 600 years took place in china?!?). poor acting, if you can even call it acting, poor writing, if you can call it writing, make this little movie, if you can even call it a movie, absolutely terrible.