Adrenalin

Rock-bottom stuff in most respects, but fairly energetic camerawork, short running time and the gorgeous Henstridge keep it reasonably painless - if you don't mind the sloppy editing and the fact that the script is virtually non-existent. (**)

Although I can accept the critics of the minimal storyline this movie shows, I don't get what's the real problem with it. The effects and stunts are okay. The characters are of a standard kind for a movie like that. Story and idea are on a good atmospheric level. And the main argument for rating this movie on a higher position: Excitement... really nerve wrecking excitement. Also, Natasha Henstridge and Christopher Lambert did a good job. I like both of them as actors and charmful characters. The combination of Mad Max, Bone Collector and Escape from NY fits to the main actors and results in a interesting and thrilling movie based in somewhat dirty end-times.

I'm not really concerned with whether or not this was a low or big budget movie. A good film can be made with few or lots of $. Unfortunately, this one is a stinker. The overall idea of cops chasing a viiolent plague victim is interesting, but the execution is poor. There are so many illogical and outright silly goings on that it's hard to get involved with the film. Not helping things is the slew of cliched tricks and devices thrown in from the constant amplified panting of all the characters to flashlights that go out at all the right, or wrong times. The film has a few overtly gratuitous and pointlessly nasty scenes. The ending is just flat out incoherent. On the plus side, Lambert and Henstridge don't suck. They are not given much to do acting wise in the picture, but with what they have to work with they do a passable job. There are a few moments of suspense but mostly the film alternates between being repellent and insulting.

First time I saw Adrenalin I cried. Not because of sadness. Nor because of something in my eye. I cried because of laughing. This movie was so pathetic that it was actually funny!!!!

The plot is very simple: In the future a mutated man (a monster really) is ravaging a city. A special team is sent to destroy it... -and so they do after a lot of death, chaos, shooting, etc.

However, the plot is insignificant really, because the best thing about this film is all the faults. For example, in a scene the monster has crawled up a shaft and the special team are just about to follow it. Suddenly the monster shows up and shoots at Christopher Lambert with a gun. He's hit approximately 10 times and it seems as if they have used the very same cut to all the times he's shot. Another thing is that it's suspicious the way the special team is destroyed by the monster. I mean it is a special team of some sort, made to destroy monsters wearing fancy suits, etc. Anyway it takes the monster about 20 seconds to kill them all...

All in all, I'll actually recommend this film if you're ready to take as some kind of a comedy. However it's a failure as a serious action film! Better be prepared!!!

An interesting concept and a fast paced movie.