Puppet Master: The Legacy

Director - Charles Band (Evil Bong 777, Doctor Mordrid)
Starring - Jacob Witkin (How I Met Your Mother, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor) and Kate Orsini (Monk, Gargoyle)
Release Date - 2003
Genre - Horror
Tagline - "Now the legacy can be told"
Format - Bluray (Personal Collection) (Screener)

Rating (out of 5):

    I'm still balls deep in the Puppet Master Toulon's Trunk box set and still going.  After watching the rather forgettable Curse of the Puppet Master and Retro Puppet Master I was looking forward to the next entry, The Legacy.  I had heard something, regardless if it was positive or negative, said about all the films in the series with the exception of this one.  The title should have been an indicator as to what I was about to see but it was too late by the time I realized why it was called The Legacy.
   



     The film follows a rogue secret agent who tracks down Peter (from Puppet Master 2) who is now an old man.  He has came in possession of Toulon's puppets and she wants to know where his secret is kept.  She interrogates him and demands him reveal the secret.  Peter is able to get the upper hand and before she dies she reveals she doesn't want the secret to make her own puppets but needs it to stop the creations made from the puppet masters after Toulon who are now hellbent on killing the current puppet master.

   


     I honestly don't know where to begin with this review.  The Legacy is honestly a fucking rip off when you consider the series as a whole.  The movie offers very little to the series and recycles parts from the other films.  Everything from this point on is referring to the 30 min segment that is new footage and not the recycled scenes from other films.  The acting in this one isn't bad but we don't see the two stars that often and when we do it is in short increments before the next scene from another Puppet Master plays.  I actually liked the cast and I'm a little butthurt we didn't get a full film with them.  The story for this one  has some pretty big shoes to fill but put no effort into it.  The film was pieced together to fill plot holes throughout the series but the end result is actually giving viewers movies they had already scenes just regurgitated into another movie.  Finally, the new segment doesn't really have any blood, kills, or effects.  Instead, it relies on kills from other films.  Overall, Puppet Master: The Legacy is a turn on cinema.  Skip it.