Cert: 18 cert
Director: Albert Pyun (as Albert F. Pyun)
Screen writer: Albert Pyun
Starring: John Stockwell , Michael Dudikoff , Michele Little , Lisa Blount , Don Murray , George Kennedy , Norbert Weisser , Christian Andrews , Paul Keller Galan , Demian Slade , Hilary Shepard , Sue Saad , Kimberly McKillip , Gulcin Gilbert , Mark Brown
Running time: 98 min
Parents advised to read before viewing film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.
Sex & Nudity: There is alot of sexual behavior, brief scene of nudity
Violence & Gore: Scene of mutated people, gun fights, people getting shot, reference of eating people
Profanity: strong language
Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: alot of drink, drug & smoking is seen this film
Frightening/Intense Scenes: This is 80s style effects so i wouldn't really say this was frighting or has any intense feel to it.
Story: After an atomic war Phillip Hammer and Marlowe Chandler have spent 15 years on their own in an bunker, stuffed with junk from the 40s and old detective novels. Now, 19 years old, they leave their shelter to find a world full of mutants, freaks and cannibals. They become famous detectives in the struggle for the two keys that could fire the last nuclear weapon.
Likes : Well first of all this film just scream 80s special with the music by Michael McCarthy & music performed by Sue Saad who played a singing cameo in the film as well. The story is the standard hard boiled detective yarn with two brothers that survived a nuclear Apocalypse in a bunker trying to play several sides against each other and discovering the danger of putting their trust in the wrong person.
These two character just come across as tweedle Dee & tweedle dum blues brothers concept in a world that like mad max beyond the thunder dome concept which the way i could describe is cheesy bad tongue in cheek concept, but its kind of a good cheesy bad, like its so bad its good. Some people might consider this a classic from the 80s, which is the typical cheesy 80s movies that John Stockwell and Michael Dudikoff didn't do a bad job at acting in.
You can tell straight away that this film has 80s written all over it with the rot-faced hippie cannibals, red-haired hog-riding biker chicks, belligerent greasers, foul-mouthed white-suited disco mutant kids, decadent punks, and gigantic carnivorous sewer rats yes i said giant rat in the sewers that why this film was cheesy which also has that Raymond Chandler and Humphrey Bogart feel to it in some scene.In all honesty this is a film if your grow up watching you love or a film your ive love or hate depend on if you still into the 80s film, this is a film that not going to be for everyone.
Dislikes : Im not normally one for the cheesy film, because normally they are seriously bad, this is seriously cheesy i had to laugh at it but its wasn't a great film but its was watchable, but it was a little stupid
Overall : Tongue in cheek 80s concept, mad max feel, great acting.
Rating: 4.3 out of 5 for entertainment / 6 out of 10 for story concept
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