I just watched the director's cut. I saw the original back in the day but didn't find it memorable so I can't compare.
The acting is generally pretty good. Brosnan and Fahey are certainly not phoning it in. Brosnan is also very well cast here. But I think Fahey was miscast... or perhaps he was simply made up poorly when he was playing the mentally challenged Jobe. The frizzy hair not only doesn't look like what this simple man would do, it makes him look like an 80s hair band lead. That sounds like a joke but that's not intended.
It's certainly a movie of two halves, where the first half is far better than the second. The first half isn't spectacular but it's good enough that you expect a decent second half. Essentially, the now smart Jobe goes on a revenge spree. Fine, but his revenges take far too long, especially considering the "real world" fx here are godawful.
And these fx aren't "dated", they were incredibly subpar for the time. This was of the same year or two of T2 and Star Trek VI. I get that they surely didn't have that kind of budget, but they should have trimmed Jobe's revenges to the bone for this reason. Actually even if the fx here were great, all these scenes play out far too long.
I actually think there's a decent movie here that could be made by just taking the director's cut and trimming the second half as close to the bone as possible.
The acting is generally pretty good. Brosnan and Fahey are certainly not phoning it in. Brosnan is also very well cast here. But I think Fahey was miscast... or perhaps he was simply made up poorly when he was playing the mentally challenged Jobe. The frizzy hair not only doesn't look like what this simple man would do, it makes him look like an 80s hair band lead. That sounds like a joke but that's not intended.
It's certainly a movie of two halves, where the first half is far better than the second. The first half isn't spectacular but it's good enough that you expect a decent second half. Essentially, the now smart Jobe goes on a revenge spree. Fine, but his revenges take far too long, especially considering the "real world" fx here are godawful.
And these fx aren't "dated", they were incredibly subpar for the time. This was of the same year or two of T2 and Star Trek VI. I get that they surely didn't have that kind of budget, but they should have trimmed Jobe's revenges to the bone for this reason. Actually even if the fx here were great, all these scenes play out far too long.
I actually think there's a decent movie here that could be made by just taking the director's cut and trimming the second half as close to the bone as possible.