I just watched Karma Police for the second time.

Let's start this off with big positive -

This is by far one of the best indie films I've ever seen. It's creative, thought provoking, entertaining, and it keeps you going until the wonderful end. The best part? It was made here in Dallas, Texas.

I like to keep my finger on the pulse of the low budgets around here, and I've followed KP (more or less) for a few years at least now. Actually I'd forgotten about it until a few months ago, since it'd been so long since I'd heard anything. I checked in with John Venable to find out if any screeners were available, luckily they were. He rushed one to me and I eagerly popped it in.

The first five minutes are among the films finest. Beautiful shots, wonderful voice over, setting the mood and tone for the rest to unfold.

It's the story about Charles West, a nearly middle aged IT guy working for his brother in law who he despises. He's a good guy that doesn't mind givin' a bum five bucks. He takes care of his tickets, and he's a good worker. For his efforts he's tapped by the Karma Police, a secret organization that likes to maintain order by giving that extra push to either reward the good or punish the bad.

Everything was great in this picture, let me tell you. For one, a rare thing happened while I watched this independent gem : I didn't get bored.
For anything that's non-horror in the indie world, that's a feat. A huge feat. I've seen dick and fart no budgets that bored me to tears simply because nobody involved had a sense of humor or every piece of the production was run like shit. This goes for drama, action, pick the genre and I've been bored by it's retarded indie cousin. Horror gets a pass because, honestly, even when it's bad...it's good.

Karma Police is a fine example of what you can do in this world of small time filmmaking. Everyone involved seemed on point and did their respective jobs to the best of their capacity. The cast did a magnificent job with stand out performances by the male lead Chamblee Ferguson and female lead Nicole Leigh. Neither of them (or 99% of the cast for that matter) skipped a beat or missed a mark. They were at the top of their game, and I commend them. Great job, guys! John Venable did a bang up job not only with the script, which was above your average in both dialog and story, but was a stand out director as well.

The score was wonderful as well. Anywhere it was placed, it worked. It was not the usual ho hum no budget style score, either. This was well crafted seemingly big budget sounds coming through during these scenes. My only real complain there would have been to utilize it more through the picture.

All in all a total must see. When it's available for purchase I HIGHLY recommend a buy on it. Especially if you enjoy supporting independent movies, or revenge flicks...cause this one is both!