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D: Stuart Gordon
Village Roadshow (John Davis & John
Flock)
Australia/USA 🇦🇺 🇺🇸 1992 (released 1993)
89 mins
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Action/Science Fiction
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W:Â Steve Feinberg, Troy Neighbors & Terry Curtis
Fox
DP: David Eggby
Ed: Timothy Wellburn
Mus: Frederic Talghorn
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Christopher Lambert (John Henry Brennick), Kurtwood Smith
(Poe), Loryn Locklin (Karen), Lincoln Kilpatrick (Abraham), Jeffrey Combs (D-Day), Vernon Wells (Maddox)
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Low-budget sci-fi hokum which sees Christopher Lambert
locked up in a high security prison and plays out like a futuristic version of The Great Escape.
The story is decent, the acting okay, but come the halfway
point it's clear to see how budgetary restraints stop the film's true potential from shining through. Still, for a B-movie, it's not at all bad.
5/10