Hostile Environment

In a not too distant future (tho isn't never made clear) toxic waste has reduced water on Earth. Only a few have the possibility of decontaminate the water from a giant warship, and Minna (Brigitte Nielsen) is the tyrannical ruler. The land dwellers have to battle Minna and they are helped by the daughter of the rebel leader, Mike Erikson and Jennifer's brother Rocky (Matthias Hues).

HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT has an appalling score of 2,3, only four reviews with the highest score that has a 4 and only 291 ratings. All signs that a movie is indeed terrible. Yet, why I watched it? Well, sometimes I love to feed my masochist side and watch some obscure stuff, but this time wasn't worth it. The acting was very lazy by everyone. Nielsen was ok as the villain but as for the others... I have seen better performances in Michael Ironside or Jean Claude Van Damme movies. There was a guy who was good only in kicking like Van Damme, Rocky that was there only for the sake of beating the snot and showing his huge muscles. And the editing was probably the sloppiest with some badly edited shoots like the one where Minna is thrown to her death as we don't even see Rocky kicking her and despite she is in the submarine we see her thrown backwards and then... she is nowhere to be seen. You just have to see it to believe it!

A terrible movie with lazy acting, bad editing (made probably by someone who was heavily drunk and wasn't fired yet) and dull pacing. I would recommend it only for people suffering from insomnia, as when it was over, I soon went to bed (no joking)!

It's a great film. I love so much I want my family and country to wath it and let the world knowu what is the original cinema and you know the acting has mesemrizied me and I'm compley drawn it from the moment and of course this film has its on class whhich whole mars would llike to watch and I tell u people of this univserse go and watch this gem of a year which does not happen regularly and you wont regret about it. It's oscar winning film and deserve all the awards at festivals and around the world. I know coz I have scene it and this is a wonderfh film. Im saying u velive me ppk and I tell u I wpnt disapppont u.

"Hostile Environment" seems to have a lot of promising B-movie actors and ingredients, however here are a few suggestions for you instead of watching this movie:

• If you're a Brigitte Nielsen fan, try "Red Sonja"

• If you're a Matthias Hues fan, try "No Retreat, No Surrender 2"

• If you're a Darren Shahlavi fan, try "Bloodmoon"

• If you're a Rochelle Swanson fan, try "Sorceress" (though I did get a kick out of seeing her using a machine gun at one point here)

• If you want an action movie set on a ship, try the superb Hong Kong - made "Red Wolf"

• If you want a reluctant post-apocalyptic loner/hero, try "Mad Max"

However, if you're looking for a movie with a very ripped man spending most of the running time half-naked, you've come to the right place. Definitely a male muscle fetish film, I'll give it * out of 4 stars but my guess is most women will rate it higher.

But not much more than that. The cast is capable and the fights are OK but that's about it. I wonder if Ms. Nielsen's headaches in the film were actually from being in such a wasted movie. She and the rest of the cast deserve better than this film.

Matt