Oh the humanity!

You know the previews for this movie looked really cool. Than again they are supposed to look cool so you will go and see the movie. I have to admit I was suckered in. Even the first 15 minutes of the movie suckered me into thinking this is going to be a really cool post apocalypse/cyberpunk style flick. But alas I was fooled.

The movie opens up with a scavenger looking guy wandering the wastelands where he picks up the head of the killer robot. Everything from the cinematography to just plain coolness factor was there. The movie goes way downhill from there. I think the biggest problem is the movie just didn?t know what it wanted to be. So much attention was diverted into what were ultimately details that had nothing to do with the plot. They are so blatant I have to point them out:

One instance is a huge scene was devoted to what sums up to being soft porn with voyeurism. You figure since they spend so much time on the guy watching the love fest that he would be a pivotal character. Right? WRONG! You could have cut that entire scene out and it wouldn?t have made a difference to the plot development at all.

Another example is you get to hear two security guards talk over a chess about how computers don?t understand certain tactical elements like strategic losses. Sounds like a nice little hint on what to do against the killer robot right? WRONG! That little tidbit of information never needed to ever used because it DIDN?T MATTER.

And lets not forget about the death scene of one of the prominent characters that took several minutes of dying even though we?re told the method of death is supposed to be very quick. I won?t even go into the lame way they actually take out the killer robot. All I can say is that it was a major disappointment and essentially came out of nowhere.

I will say that the production elements of the movie were great. Cinematography was excellent and the visual effects were really cool. The atmosphere of the movie stayed consistent also, plus the soundtrack is cool with songs from Simon Boswel, Ministry and Public Image Limited. Too bad the movie never went anywhere story wise.

I can only recommend about the first 10 minutes and the last five minutes of the movie as good. The rest of it stinks. If you want to go and watch the entire film for the sake of debating it?s blatant inconsistencies I can dig that too. (...). Let this movie be a lesson to all of you science fiction movie makers out there: Think about what you?re doing and make the stuff you put in makes sense in the end.

forget the terminater hype-hardware is the real deal!!!!!!!!!!!

huge budgeted conglomerate films as the now degenerate terminter series should of taken a cue from hardware mark 13.this movie was set in the post apocolyptic uk and gave the vibe that the world would become creepier than it is today.the soundtrack that is now 16 years old is electric .go back and listen to terminater 1 and listen to the 80's synth babble compared to the foresight of using underground bands such as p.i.l.,ministry and motorhead to supplement the eirie soundtrack.this was ahead of its time.
hardware mark 13 is just one of those films that if you get it,you really get it.if you dont,ya got no taste or imagination.if your into 20 minute drawn out car chases(terminater) and men made of liquid metal ,hardware is not for you,it borders on what could be.nothing wrong with that.
although its sci-fi its not completely out of control with time travel every couple years and the villian is brutal,then he's nice and then who cares.i think the us gross for hardware was 6 mil..not bad for a 2 mil budget.and with video and dvd the following grew and grew.how much did the terminater/cameron franchise cost..too much for too little...you can by the whole terminater series on amazon for 2 bucks,ive sold 1 copy of hardware for over $100.00...that says it all!!
no sequels although without hard moe and his metal hand it would be tough to pull it off,but id always welcome a sequel,even if it stunk,it would still be a far cry better than the same old regurgitated rip off on terminater,aliens and anything else that made a few bucks one summer.
harware mark 13 is a classic and will always remain close to my heart and at the top of my dvd collection

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Very Cool Cameos... Nephilim Sighting

Lots of people have already reviewed the movie so I'll skip that. There were several key cameos in here.

1 - Iggy Pop (Stooges / solo) as the DJ
2 - Lemme (Motorhead) as a cab driver
3 - Carl McCoy (Fields of the Nephilim) as the scavenging desperado in the beginning of the film

The rarest and infinitely coolest is the Carl McCoy appearance since the dude was basically a recluse and is an obscure cult figure anyway. His character is also the weirdest of the 3. The legendary frontman for the epic Goth outfit Fields of the Nephilim appears early in the film as a desperado roaming the post-apocalyptic desert badlands in search of relics that might have some scavenge value. He enters the post-nuclear pawn shoppe and growls only 1 line, "Where's the little man?" The funny thing is that he basically plays himself; he looks and sounds exactly like he always does and that fits perfectly well into the motif of Hardware.