Given a career spent as a nearly-man, you could be forgiven for thinking that Evil Dead star Bruce Campbell would have become a bitter old drunk by now. And that’s exactly the persona that Campbell deconstructs in this riff on Seven Samurai, in which he is recruited by a small town to fight a troublesome Chinese god, in the mistaken belief that he’s a real-life action hero.
You’d think that all those years hanging out with Sam Raimi would have rubbed off on him, but Campbelldoesn’t cut it as a director, turning in a clumsy comedy-horror, packed with gags both racist and creaking, that squeaks through on the force of his personality alone. For Deadheads only.