This is a bit of a gem that I’m surprised I escaped the ‘90s without coming across. A mash up of ideas from other movies, a good cast not trying very hard, a soundtrack of generic metal, and the keen directorial eye of the man brought you The Lawnmower Man and Virtuosity - a man clearly obsessed with pushing CGI way beyond any sensible technical capabilities of the time. It’s a movie that could have been really good, but isn’t, and I had a really good time.
Famously when Leone made A Fistful of Dollars he lifted the plot of Yojimbo and got sued to hell by Kurosawa. They do say great artists steal. Anyway, here Kurosawa is properly credited, though if I were him I’d sue to have my name taken off this thing. It seems like it would be great for modern streaming audiences, as 90% of the dialogue is Willis doing a whispering voiceover explaining what’s going on so you never have to look…
I've seen this before, and I've always loved it, but I'm doing some research at the moment about autism in the movies and this film kept coming up - I had to watch it straight away, it had never occurred to me, but once seen I couldn't un-see it. Barry Egan has Asperger's.
The fixation on details and rules, the awkwardness in social situations, not knowing how to engage in physical appropriately, the violent meltdowns, the literal interpretation of…
I spent much of my teenage years (and beyond) watching horror movies, starting with the standard stuff from the local video shop years before I was meant to be seeing it, on to getting hold of NTSC copies of the then still-banned-in-the-uk classics like The Exorcist and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Then DVD came along and multiregion players and internet ordering and pretty much anything was available and I enjoyed extreme cinema from around the world, but even now as…
