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Split Second
List Price: $9.98 Our Price:
VHS Tape - 07 July, 1994
Hbo Home Video
Availability: Used and ThirdParty
Director: Ian Sharp
Number of Media: 1
Features: - Closed-captioned
- Color
- HiFi Sound
- NTSC
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| VHS Tape Description Rutger Hauer and Kim Cattrall star in this festival of stolen plots and embarrassing dialogue. Harley Stone (Hauer) is a tough cop. The kind of cop who lives by his own rules. The kind of cop who smokes, swears, and eats junk food. The kind of cop who slams people into walls to drive home a conversational point. If it sounds like you've seen this character before, you have. Split Second is not so much a movie as a cinematic crib sheet, cheerfully ripping off Jaws, Aliens, and Hauer's own Blade Runner, just to name a few. Which is not for a moment to suggest that the movie isn't fun to watch. Connoisseurs of horror-action also-rans will be in spasms of delight over everything from the ludicrous plot to the cookie-cutter dialogue ("They say he's the best." "He is.") to the incredibly misguided decision to have Stone eat chocolate truffles throughout the entire film. It is honestly sometimes hard to tell what is an intentional joke and what's just plain bad. Anyway, there's a serial killer rampaging through London in 2008 and Stone doesn't want a new partner, especially one with all that book learning and blah, blah, blah. Just turn your brain off and enjoy the magic. --Ali Davis |
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The people selling this movie are a bunch of crooks! This is a good movie. One of Rutger's best, but there ISN'T a movie out there that I would pay over 20$ bucks for, if I was a collector or not. The people on here selling this movie are just trying to make a fast buck and should be shot in the head. This movie will be on sale in the public market once again some day. When you see it at Walmart for 14$ bucks, you're really gonna kick yourself...don't let these theives steal your money.
Still the best! If you are a Rutger Hauer fan like I am, then you will love this movie!
Yes, it has hokey Dialog, Yes, some of the acting is wooden, Yes, some of the jokes are lame enough to make you run screaming into the night while holding your nose...but this is Rutger Hauer!!!
Anyway, The action is superb enough to keep you on the edge of your seat, and Rutger Hauer puts forth his usual excellent job of making you wonder how he hasn't yet been committed. If you want a great bad guy or a gritty hero...he is the man!
The special effects are not stellar, but the way the lighting is set and the mood will make you want to watch this movie all the way through. Kim Cattral puts forth an interesting effort, but to be honest I think a new name starlet would have been better cast in this role.
See the movie...it's well worth it!
Good Action for Hauer Fans Fans of movies like Dolph Lundgren's "I Come in Peace" or Rutger Hauer fans will want to catch this one. Plenty of action, decent acting, some comedy, and fairly decent story and music. When the city becomes flooded and bodies that are badly ripped up start showing up, Unorthodox detective Harley Stone is called in to investigate the cause. Only two problems, he has to have a partner on the case played by Neil Duncan, which he doesn't want, and the killer is an alien. Add in a delectable girlfriend played by Kim Cattrall and you have a nice afternoon matinee. This may not have the depth of movies he has done like "Blade Runner", but it sure is more fun like "Wedlock" or "Blind Fury". |
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