Tubi Thursday: Dark Asylum (2001)

 While his last Film did not work for me, I do like Larry Drake as an Actor (RIP since 2016).

Let's give him another shot with 2001's...

A city is overrun with fear (in Voice Over and B-Roll of a City) as a mysterious killer is on the loose.

By luck, some Cops find his lair.
It goes poorly for the first one.

They catch him, but he's shot and taken to a Mental Hospital.

Um...wrong kind of Hospital, Film.

He's put in there (off camera) and in the care of Jurgen Prochnow.

My 2nd Film of his in a row (watched, but not reviewed).

He goes full Hannibal Lecter.

Our Heroine- Paulina Porzegova- is called in to work there, even as she's dealing with some personal things.

Do you care?
Nah.

Drake is a modern Serial Killer, so he's super smart, super strong and somehow reading the Script ahead of the other Characters.

He easily breaks free of his straitjacket and kills Prochnow.  Bye!

They lock down the place- since that works and nothing else does- and now he needs the key.

He takes out all of the Cops and Security- with ease- and now he has to get Paulina.

She gets helped by a patient- Judd Nelson- and must find a way out while avoiding Drake.

After escaping the Building and getting help, Drake somehow blows up the Cops who ran in and escapes via the Sewers.

He somehow finds Paulina's Grandmother's House (was the address in the records?) and kidnaps her Daughter.

Now only SHE can stop him...and she blows him up.
That seems to work this time.  The End.

A Film that has some real potential...and then just gets ridiculous.

Drake is, yet again, a super impossible to defeat guy.  He's also suddenly taller here, as his Character is billed at 6'7, while he was 6'2.
He can choke people to death with one hand and knock people around like bowling pins.

Of course, his backhand strikes to Paulina only stun her for a second, so consistency is not strong here.

If this was just a riff on Die Hard where a Psychologist and a Patient must play keep away from a Serial Killer, it could be good.  

Hell, it sounds like a good premise for a Survival Horror Game!

This is far from the only Film to pass off Serial Killers as some sort of Superhuman Being.  That said, this Film has nothing else going for it.

Paulina and Judd try.  Drake is fun when he's a talkative killer.

The Film is just not good and keeps going way past the point where it should have.
At least there's not an alternate Title and Poster that lies to you...

Is that an Alex Ross drawing?

A Film that is not truly terrible, as the setup is good and the Actors are too.  It's just too bad that it gets plain ridiculous and over-the-top.