Hey everybody and welcome back to Indie Film Cafe! Jonathan Moody here to discuss the 2009 Joe Estevez and Robert Z’dar flick, “Meltdown” starring, written, and directed by Christopher J. Martin. In this episode I got poor Paul Presenza and poor Cayt Feinics to discuss it with me on our latest episode. This was not anything that we really expected and you’ll pretty much know why in a second.
This was the storyline put on IMDB by the director himself:
Meltdown is a action/adventure film about a FBI agent who goes deep undercover to bring down a crime syndicate. When his cover is blown the mob and FBI want him dead. His only hope of survival is a female agent who is willing to break the rules to help save his life. Out numbered and out gunned it is a deadly fight to the finish.
Well that doesn’t sound too bad, does it? Ohhhhh boy! This movie was a lot of self indulgence. A lot of grandiosity. And a lot of just really bad film-making. However for a person’s first time film I can’t be too harsh. I mean Christopher J Martin went out and did what he could to make something he probably thought had a really big message. What was that message? I dunno.
The cast as I mentioned before was pretty awesome. It’s always fun to see Joe Estevez and Robert Z’Dar in a movie together. I wish they were the leads. It might have made the movie a bit more fun. The lead himself Christopher is just too new and doesn’t really do a good job at all. He’s kind of boring in this. The female lead Andrea Tice was my favorite part and even she couldn’t help hold the film together.
There were a lot of blunders and a lot of technical issues that a first time film is always going to have so I could never fault some of that. However when you have a scene where a bunch of people are shooting each other in public… ummm where are the cops? Except for the cops that are the main part of this the city cops are nowhere to be found. Maybe they actually did get called when the shootout happened. We’ll probably never know unless they do a blu ray copy of this with commentary. I’d actually buy it for that.
I got this movie on DVD but I did also watch it on Tubi where it’s available. Mainly to help them with a few cents. I always prefer to do that when I can because I know as a filmmaker how hard it is to make a movie and get it distributed. We came to find out that this this movie was actually talked about on a You Tube review show called, “Good bad or bad bad” and Tubi got interested in it and made it available. So thank you, Tubi.
Cayt and Paul enjoyed riffing on the movie a lot, and I was shocked to have found something that I don’t think Paul had even seen. There’s apparently a lot out there even the moo cow hasn’t watched. And most likely those will be on Indie Film Cafe at some point, so get ready!
However we have come to that time where we discuss the scores on the Stinkometer. I gave it a 9.5; Paul gave it a 9; and Cayt found it slightly less stinky than than us and gave it an 8.5.], giving it a total Stink Score of 27, which is a Stinky Average of 9.0. That puts it up there with the likes of Donald Farmer’s Vampire Cop and Brett Kelly’s Raiders of the Lost Shark. Maybe if those two had a baby it would be… Christopher J Martin’s Meltdown!
Anyhoo that’s gonna be it for me this time… I’ll be back for the next two and then it’s Paul’s turn again. We had some crazy movies this season! But until we get to those let Paul tell you how you can find it and what else for Meltdown you might be able to find. Take it away, MooCow….
Welp, there ain’t no trailer for this film, folks, which just about tells you about the production values of this here moovie… :=8/ You CAN, however, find it on the Bad Movie Night video podcast. The full moovie is on Tubi these days, which is good because this flick doesn’t even show up on Uncle Amazon! You can, cowever, find the DVD at Oldies.com, and dat’s about it! Sowwy folks, but if we finds moore stuff out there for this moovie we will update our page and put it out there you you can has it, especially you Joe Estevez and Robert Z’Dar fans out there!
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I did find a 2009 Bay City Times article on the flock too.
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This was Chris’s third attempt at making a movie. The first one stopped because the main actor died. The second (Which I was in) stopped due to money issues. I moved to another state, but kept in touch. Then one day he sent me a copy of Meltdown. The first 5 minutes in and I asked him (On the phone) “why didn’t you get your suit tailored?” it went down him from there. Oh and they were a dating during the movie.
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