There's very little daylight in writer-director Albert Pyun's claustrophobic thriller "Adrenalin: Fear the Rush". There's also very little plot and lackluster thrills in the 76-minute film starring Christopher Lambert and Natasha Henstridge.
Set in the futuristic hellhole of Boston in 2007, the Largo Entertainment/Filmwerks production is basically one long and bloody chase. Distributor Legacy Will Chase down a few fistfuls of dinero before "Adrenalin" rushes into video stores.
Henstridge ("Maximum Risk", "Species"), joining the growing club of distaff action-movie leads, plays a cop assigned to track down an infected maniac in the quarantined section of Bean Town. It seems that a plague starting in Eastern Europe has ravaged the world, and the suspect in question has the potential to infect thousands.
The details of the story are so fuzzy that one is uncertain whether the characters are even aware of the stakes involved. Also, what causes the monstrous killer to dismember bodies and eat them is never made clear.
From tunnels to shafts to scaffolds to stairways, the cat-and-mouse games of the film are competently rendered, but one keeps expecting a major turn of events that never comes. Shootouts occur regularly, while the grunts of exertion and howls of pain by the leads are better than bad jokes.
There are glimpses of potential subplots, but the whole of the film concerns the scrambling duo of Henstridge and Lambert, along with assorted expendable comrades, all of whom tiresomely argue and yell at each other when Pyun takes a stab at scenes with dialogue.
ADRENALIN: FEAR THE RUSH
Legacy Releasing
Largo Entertainment
in association with Filmwerks
An Albert Pyun film
Writer-director Albert Pyun
Producers Gary Schmoeller, Tom Karnowsk
Executive producers Barr B. Potter,
Paul Rosenblum
Director of photography George Mooradian
Editor Ken Morrisey
Music Tony Riparetti
Costume designer Shelly Boies
Production designer Nenad Pecur
Casting Teri Blythe
Color/stereo
Cast:
Lemieux Christopher Lambert
Delon Natasha Henstridge
Running time -- 76 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
Set in the futuristic hellhole of Boston in 2007, the Largo Entertainment/Filmwerks production is basically one long and bloody chase. Distributor Legacy Will Chase down a few fistfuls of dinero before "Adrenalin" rushes into video stores.
Henstridge ("Maximum Risk", "Species"), joining the growing club of distaff action-movie leads, plays a cop assigned to track down an infected maniac in the quarantined section of Bean Town. It seems that a plague starting in Eastern Europe has ravaged the world, and the suspect in question has the potential to infect thousands.
The details of the story are so fuzzy that one is uncertain whether the characters are even aware of the stakes involved. Also, what causes the monstrous killer to dismember bodies and eat them is never made clear.
From tunnels to shafts to scaffolds to stairways, the cat-and-mouse games of the film are competently rendered, but one keeps expecting a major turn of events that never comes. Shootouts occur regularly, while the grunts of exertion and howls of pain by the leads are better than bad jokes.
There are glimpses of potential subplots, but the whole of the film concerns the scrambling duo of Henstridge and Lambert, along with assorted expendable comrades, all of whom tiresomely argue and yell at each other when Pyun takes a stab at scenes with dialogue.
ADRENALIN: FEAR THE RUSH
Legacy Releasing
Largo Entertainment
in association with Filmwerks
An Albert Pyun film
Writer-director Albert Pyun
Producers Gary Schmoeller, Tom Karnowsk
Executive producers Barr B. Potter,
Paul Rosenblum
Director of photography George Mooradian
Editor Ken Morrisey
Music Tony Riparetti
Costume designer Shelly Boies
Production designer Nenad Pecur
Casting Teri Blythe
Color/stereo
Cast:
Lemieux Christopher Lambert
Delon Natasha Henstridge
Running time -- 76 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 12/10/1996
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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