While I have found it impossible to clearly define, there is something special about this film. There is some hidden mystique the viewer feels, which has eluded me in my attempts to pinpoint it. Rutger Hauer gives as adequate a performance as anyone can expect from his work in the 1980's, and the story is a hodgepodge of a plethora of other films like Mad Max, Conan, and anything else made around the same time.
Honestly, the brutal football-like game seems to come straight from Australian Rules football, but who am I to judge? The banality of this film, would seemingly render it pointless, useless crud, but that doesn't seem to be the case, for some reason.
There is something about this film that holds the viewer, caresses the viewer's mind and brings it back to the film. I don't know if there are heinous subliminals embedded herein, or what, but there is something seriously luring about this work.
The main problem with it is that it was a film made about the future, painted darkly sinister, and released at a time when the future was bright as a new penny. It flopped.
All in all it rates a 6.4/10 from...
the Fiend :.
Honestly, the brutal football-like game seems to come straight from Australian Rules football, but who am I to judge? The banality of this film, would seemingly render it pointless, useless crud, but that doesn't seem to be the case, for some reason.
There is something about this film that holds the viewer, caresses the viewer's mind and brings it back to the film. I don't know if there are heinous subliminals embedded herein, or what, but there is something seriously luring about this work.
The main problem with it is that it was a film made about the future, painted darkly sinister, and released at a time when the future was bright as a new penny. It flopped.
All in all it rates a 6.4/10 from...
the Fiend :.