brian james
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Olivier Grunner stars in this film as Alex Rain; a futuristic police detective working the streets of Los Angeles. He has a very tough job to do and gets injured frequently. This is the future though and when he is injured the medical professionals of this time can just repair him with cybernetic parts. A message sent him by one of his close female police officers soon reveals a secret plot by cyborgs to seize control of the world governments and replace humans with cyborg duplicates. He makes his way to meet her and eventually clashes with Farnsworth, the cyborg leader expertly played by the very talented Tim Thomerson. He is faced with making a difficult decision to join the secret rebellion of the machines or maintain his position as a cop and still serve humans. This film climaxes with fantastic battle scenes between Alex and Farnsworth. This film has lots of action and some excellent stunts. Please add this one to your DVD collections next to all the other good "B" science fiction movies. Great film!
Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt team up in this delightfully funny movie as a mother/daughter confidence game duo. Sigourney is perfect as the older and wiser mother who is well versed in just about every con ever played. Jennifer Love Hewitt gives a fine performance as her sometimes mean and nasty daughter who is still learning the "tricks of the trade" from mom. Together, they seek out and find wealthy older men for mom to marry and then divorce for as much money as they can get their greedy little fingers on. Gene Hackman gives a hilarious performance as the older, chain smoking wealthy widower who becomes their latest mark. For him, Sigourney becomes Olga Yevanova; a type of phony Eastern European (Russian) gold digging aristocrat who worms her way into his life and Jennifer gains admission to the house as his new (and very sexy) house maid (after the two of them "set up" the woman now holding that job by "planting" and then "accidently discovering" his deceased wife's jewelry and his cigarettes in her room). So to all men out there thinking about marriage, SIGN AN IRONCLAD PRE-NUPTUAL AGREEMENT BEFORE GETTING MARRIED; ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE WEALTHY. And see this movie; especially for the great singing performance by Sigourney of the song: "Back in the USSR" by the Beatles. This one should be added to all our DVD collections as one of the funniest comedies of recent times!! See it!!
Oliver Grunner stars in this very entertaining movie about cyborgs and the effect they have on a futuristic society. John Glover stars as Goddard Marx, the president of RobGen; an artificial human production company. This IS the future and these things or androids are as common as automobiles and are used for factory labor, security, entertainment and even as sexual surrogate partners. Everything is fine at the company until a RobGen executive tries to savagely rape a female secretary named Nora Rochester (well played by Daphne Ashbrook). Oliver (he plays multiple roles very well in this movie!) interrupts the attack (he IS programmed to protect life, after all!) and in the course of the encounter accidently kills the out of control corporate man. What follows after this is a mad struggle for survival and escape as Goddard Marx calls in a special human merc unit led by a Major West (well played by Jeff Kober). There is lots of good special effects action as well as a few very interesting surprises in the plot. Grunner is always at his acting best and carries the role of J269, etc. well. Add this one to your collections of movies on the science fiction shelf! Good movie!!