GL84 With his friend still enslaved, the lone hunter still left trying to fight off the Tall Man finds that the quest to stop him is complicated by a deteriorating mental condition and forces him into a desperate last-ditch effort to stop the fiendish being from unleashing his true plans.This was quite the fun if slightly flawed ending to the franchise. What it manages to get right include a lot of the elements that managed to be worthwhile in the other efforts, which starts with the fine action scenes. This one really offers quite a lot to like here in that regard which starts from the very beginning as the opening escape from the balls in the desert is a solid chase sequence, the later ambush at the hitchhiker's mountainside lodge home offers some rather strong stalking and gun-play alongside one of the most vicious animal attacks in the genre and the big attack in the old-age funeral home where they utilize several impressive foes to try to stop him. The series of escape attempts in the different dimensions further this with some stellar ideas that include some ravenous confrontations with the deformed minions, full-on apocalyptic battles that include numerous big battles within the destroyed ruins and plenty of ferocious gun-play that gives this some strong and thrilling moments. As well, the fact that this one manages to really bring the series around full-stop with the inclusion of the final stand against the invading army which is carried out in several different dimensions gives this a fine bit of finality to it all. With this one going back-and-forth in the timelines not only featuring the main storyline of fighting off the Tall Man and his spheres but also the future with the rest-home sequences and the events in the past coming into fruition through a pretty ingenious storyline that wraps it all together. Once it starts in on the concept of being unable to determine the different realities from each other and traveling through each of the different dimensions including the post-apocalyptic version of the future that features their final manipulations to stop the invasion. As well as the strong gore on display, these here manage to hold this one up over it's few minor but still detrimental flaws. The biggest detriment to this one is the rather obvious and cringe-worthy CGI that is continually employed here, making itself be known obviously with the use of the Silver Spheres floating through the area as well as for the backgrounds in the hellfire-drenched apocalyptic communities that are prominent in the final half. It's distracting and really downplays the scope of the scene. The other big issue is the rabid quick-cutting that occurs during many of the action scenes, effectively moving to a new scene rather abruptly right at the point where the action is getting going and tends to make for quite jarring interruptions to the flow of the story. These issues here are what hold it down.Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.

rdoyle29 Jesus ... what is this crap? Reggie wanders around the desert fighting balls and (surprise!) meets up with a foxy chick. No, scratch that ... Reggie is in a hospital suffering from dementia and Michael visits him. No ... he's in an apocalyptic future where the Tall Man has destroyed everything. You know what? I don't care. I understand what they tried to do here, and (maybe) I admire the idea a tiny bit, but look ... their ambition clearly outstripped their resources and the results look horrible. Video game cut scenes look better than this film. It's a nonsensical that looks terrible.

sadakobayushi Phantasm: Ravager, comes after a long, long wait for the concluding chapter in the series. Notably, it's the first one that Don Coscarelli did not direct, handing those duties over to David Hartman. Hartman has mostly done TV work, and largely animated TV work it appears, and it can seem obvious that he's largely unused to live-action movie work, there's a notable number of scenes that look far more amateurish than the previous films. This can apply effects-wise too, there are some sequences where the CG stands out, but on the other hand, there are plenty of other effects that look as good as before.But the story and writing is where the focus is really at. The previous films in the series had a sense of dreamlike direction to them, and continuity was somewhat loose, even within a single movie. Oblivion touched on the idea of different realities, using cut scenes from Phantasm for its flashbacks to show us a very different Phantasm than what we saw, and Ravager plays that up. The film is split between different, and sometimes merging, realities. It focuses on Reggie, and starts with him emerging from a portal after the end of the last movie. From there we get him being awesome, as one would hope from Reggie, before he suddenly awakes in a nursing home, Mike reappearing to tell him that he's there because he's been diagnosed with early onset dementia. From there the perspective shifts back and forth, from Reggie in a nursing home to his struggles against the Tall Man in an apocalyptic wasteland. Much like the previous movies, it leaves us with the question of "what is dream and what is reality," except here there's a sense of sorrow tinging the entire thing, it feels depressingly final which is only reinforced with the death of Angus Scrimm. The ending is slightly open, but at the same time you know this is the end. The mood whiplash is very, very real, fun bits leading into sad bits and then snapping right back.So that's the real determination on if you'll like this movie. Can you handle some amateur film making? Some occasionally iffy effects? A tone that will leave you excited and then yank that away to leave you near tears as you watch these characters you've come to love at the end of their lives? If you can, you will find a satisfying, if flawed, film to be enjoyed, though perhaps not without a sense of mourning.

gavin6942 Reggie (Reggie Bannister) is wandering through the desert seeking out his friend Mike and the evil Tall Man (Angus Scrimm). Along his journey, he is hunted down by the dangerous spheres and stumbles upon the gorgeous Dawn.I have to talk about the actors. Reggie and Angus were fine, of course, as they know exactly who their characters are. Dawn Cody is the worst part, with awful acting as Dawn (though she seems to be better as Jane, strangely enough). Daniel Roebuck is a nice addition, even if he seems out of place.Joe Leydon and Marten Carlson both criticized the film's narrative cohesiveness. Leydon speculated that the film's troubled production may have cause this, and Carlson more directly blamed the film's origin as a series of shorts. This is a legitimate concern. The film is quite a mess, even in a series that has some bizarre continuity. Anyone going in to this without knowledge of the series will be completely confused. (But, of course, it seems obvious not to watch "part five" without seeing earlier chapters.)