@mechajutaro said:

@rooprect said:

From the director who gave us Moonfall & Independence day, starring Michael Paré from Eddie & the Cruisers, Evil Ed from Fright Night and Malcom McDowell from everything, this flick sure had some interesting people on board. Special effects were really good for 1990, sort of an Aliens/Blade Runner dark look. The story & script...? Meh I think that's where it fell short, trying too hard to be an action rollercoaster, but overall it's fun as hell, suspenseful and surprisingly disturbing in a couple scenes that set it apart from the standard action cheese of the 80s-90s. (You know the scenes I'm talking about...).

Haven't seen the movie; what are scenes are you referring to?

There are scenes like eating food with 'secret sauce' and a 'little seasoning', drinking raw eggs, dealing drugs, abuse of young men - one is raped and commits suicide - and the hero smokes cigarettes in the cockpit. Take your pick.

@wonder2wonder said:

@mechajutaro said:

@rooprect said:

From the director who gave us Moonfall & Independence day, starring Michael Paré from Eddie & the Cruisers, Evil Ed from Fright Night and Malcom McDowell from everything, this flick sure had some interesting people on board. Special effects were really good for 1990, sort of an Aliens/Blade Runner dark look. The story & script...? Meh I think that's where it fell short, trying too hard to be an action rollercoaster, but overall it's fun as hell, suspenseful and surprisingly disturbing in a couple scenes that set it apart from the standard action cheese of the 80s-90s. (You know the scenes I'm talking about...).

Haven't seen the movie; what are scenes are you referring to?

There are scenes like eating food with 'secret sauce' and a 'little seasoning', drinking raw eggs, dealing drugs, abuse of young men - one is raped and commits suicide - and the hero smokes cigarettes in the cockpit. Take your pick.

Yea the rape/suicide part was what I was thinking of. Surprisingly dark for a late 80s-early 90s action flick. Earlier scifi had given us shocking violence like in Robocop, but this might’ve been the first scifi where a character gets raped & traumatized. Although the rape is tactfully handled off screen, the aftermath is brutal and makes you take the film seriously from that point on.

PS - “and the hero smokes cigarettes in the cockpit.”

lol That killed me. But what else would you expect from a Michael Paré role. Eddie & the Cruisers was one long smoking ad.