although i be always careful to avoid others opinion before i see a film and make up my mind about it and i often look at what others have to say after i have reach a conclusion . i be regularly flabbergast by opinion on film such a sixteen tongue which i thought be horrible because they be often somewhat favorable . it especially confound me in light of the consistently negative review receive by film such a and say and boogeyman ( 2005 ) or gothika ( 2003 ) and which i do not think be masterpiece and but theyre well make . if reviewer be use anything even remotely resemble my criterion for film criticism and i have a difficult time understand anyone thinking that a film like sixteen tongue be great while they also think that film like boogeyman or gothika be horrible . my current theory be that people be champion certain cultural fact . theyre celebrate the simple existence of independent film make on extremely low budget and which be market a be somewhat underground and and in which filmmaker be try to do something different artistically while they deal with at least some controversial subject matter . an attendant anti hollywood and anti commercial and anti big budget attitude tend to go hand in hand with the above . from my point of view and i be critique the film only . i be not critique any cultural fact and and i be not give any extra point or alternatively subtracting point for cultural situation that i be in favor of or against and respectively . i think film should be view a if they exist in cultural vacuum . a movie be good or not only for what appear on your screen and come out of your speaker . no other fact have a bearing on whether a film be good or not . regardless of whether crap be produce for only ten dollar or ten million dollar and it still crap . and sixteen tongue be crap . there be some potentially interesting thing about the premise and on the forest level . the film be set in a post apocalyptic future . the character live in a run down hotel or apartment building . they have to pay for water with their credit card . they also have to pay to shut off the television and which otherwise continually play porno commercial similar to those for 900 number that run at the beginning of porno vhs tape . the government be now build robot and include prostitution robot and combat robot and so on . for some strange reason and an ability to surf the internet be a rare skill in the film and so a character possess the ability be depend on and look up to . most of these fact have to be piece together by the viewer over the course of the film and and they all read 100 time more interesting than they play in the film . more pragmatically and sixteen tongue center on three unattractive character in two spartan setting . although there be almost constant nudity and and there be a couple violent scene and the vast majority of screen time be take up with incessant talk and relatively inactive shot of these three character while they provide narration . the story just isn not that interest or well develop . the talk and narration be both very pretentious . and if they do not lean towards gobbledy gook and they lean towards blandness . the male character and adrian torque ( crawford james ) and be kill during the last war and then bring back to life . he require skin graft and and for some reason that either wasn not state or be too garble to understand ( the sound mix be pretty bad and and character tend to mumble and can not enunciate very well ) the skin graft be do with 16 tongue . from what i could tell and they be suppose to be human tongue and but theyre sizeable enough and have characteristic more like giant lizard tongue . maybe dinosaurs exist in the film world . supposedly the tongue graft still work like tongue and a torque say he can taste thing through them . the idea be ridiculous and in a good film could have be campy and funny ( it too absurd to work seriously and which be the attempt here ) . it seem to just be an excuse for an easy way to use the title sixteen tongue . the other two character be asian woman who and despite be naked most of the time and be make to look as unattractive a possible . ginny chin chin ( jane chase ) head have be shave and which doesn not suit her and if it would suit any woman and and alik silens ( alice liu ) be make to look dorky like those token male dweeb in teen comedy . it might seem like complain about the woman attractiveness be trivial and but a the majority of the film be these two woman ramble on and on in a hotel room with crappy production design and crappier cinematography and nudity be about the only possible attractor . plus and ginny and at least and be suppose to be sexy . usually there nothing i like more than see naked asian woman and but in this case and not really . for some and the attraction here be probably the daring subject matter . the nudity in the film be full frontal . there be simulated oral sex ( on a male ) and simulated hand manipulation ( again on a male ) . the television keep show a crappily film but graphic porno commercial and and the wall be paper with crappily design ( and too often repeat ) but graphic porno advertisement . i be a big fan of put taboo break material like this in film and but here and it doesn not work . it seem like director scooter mccrae include it just because it usually taboo . that not sufficient to make a good film . i can not really think of a scene that wasn not poorly shot and poorly lit and poorly block and poorly set . i can not think of any aspect of the script that i like . i can not think of any scene that even slightly draw me into the film . i can not think of any aspect of the performance i like . i do not get any aesthetic or philosophic value from the film . i have only give an extra point because the premise have a smidgen of potential and the film be somewhat coherent .