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George has always blindly followed the intel they’ve received – the enhanced are dangerous and a threat to the public. His boss Captain Williams (Adrian Holmes) lets the team know that numerous enhanced have been found dead. The working theory is that one of their own is killing the rest off one by one. George and his team are to continue rounding up the enhanced but making sure to try and track down this potential serial killer.
After a few curious encounters with the enhanced showing signs that conflict with the intel, George begins to question everything. Especially after meeting Anna (Alanna Bale) – an enhanced who doesn’t seem to be a threat to people at all. Anna is simply lonely and tired of always having to look over her shoulder. She just wants a normal life, a better life. David (Chris Mark), the enhanced with sinister motives, sets his sights on Anna leaving George with a decision to make. Does he continue to blindly follow his orders, or risk everything to help her.
Director James Mark, who also cowrote the film with Matthew Nayman and Peter Van Horne, has a background as a stuntman and fight choreographer. His years working in these areas translate on screen in Enhanced. The fight scenes are by far the highlights of the film. They flow seamlessly and are choregraphed extremely well. It is interesting to see what “powers” the enhanced possess and what new tricks they pull out of their sleeves. Issues arise with the consistency however, where character’s strengths and abilities seem to waiver.
So let’s get this out of the way first, if you’re not a fan of low-brow comedy, if Jackass was never your thing…then Bad Trip isn’t for you. Everyone else, well you are in for a hilarious and surprisingly uplifting film. The storyline setting everything in motion is nothing special and obviously only exists as the vehicle to get to the next prank, though you can see the effort they put in to making everything cohesive. While we never really get invested in Chris’s quest they were able to merge the two that made the transition to a prank scene less jarring then what you usually end up with in films like these. Tiffany Haddish, of course, is great as the terrifying Trina and she REALLY gets into it when it comes time to interact with the unsuspecting public. I was surprised that she was able to be in a film like this as effectively as she was, you’d think more people would notice that the breakout star of Girls Trip had just broken out of prison right in front of them.
What really impressed me was the line that Andre walked with the pranks that were included. I’m always extremely wary of these types of films, more often than not they are seriously anxiety inducing and move more toward gross then funny by the end of the film. I get it, you need to one up the last prank or what’s the point, but the end result can be unwatchable for a lot of people. This isn’t to say they’re tame, any movie that includes a scene of a gorilla making sweet love to a man that snuck into his cage at the zoo is immediately removed from the “tame” category. Nope, not tame but varied, their seemed to have been a lot of thought put into the different ways to trick people. With films like Jackass you end up wondering just how many ways can you construct a prank centering around fireworks and an anus before you’re just repeating yourself. Bad Trip kept the pranks fresh and on different spectrums of the “offensive” chart throughout.
As I said before, this one’s pretty simple to review. If you like gross-out comedies and/or prank shows you will be more then satisfied with Bad Trip. I can’t finish this review without talking about the most surprising aspect of the film. It seems everywhere we look these days we’re being told how bad the world and people in general are. This is not what I expected to say, but truthfully speaking Bad Trip gave me back some hope for the future. Almost every single time a prank is executed you see good people emerge with concern and care (not the Chinese Penis Trap guy, he was an exception). Whether it’s a woman chastising Haddish for hanging Andre off the side of a building, or a caring Army recruiter Bad Trip ended up being a spotlight for the fact that, despite appearances, people are inherently good.
