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Old 20th July 2015, 07:51 AM
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Eden and After (1970)
Worth listening to Tim Lucas Commentaries.

Less sophisticated viewing for me....

Nemesis 4.

Sue Price turns up again as the muscle bound Cyborg killer. Here she seems to have made her way back to the future, the war between Cyborgs and humans has ended and Alex is now working as a hit-woman for Andrew Divoffs mafiosi. After she kills the wrong man a massive bounty is placed on her head so she sits about naked contemplating death as various killers turn up to claim the prize.
A pretty odd film considering the previous films, this one is about 70+ minutes of Sue Price having lengthy meandering conversations with various killers while naked before killing them and being haunted by the specter of death. Most of it is set in one or two streets of some unnamed eastern European town. Its... interesting but I would have preferred more action.

Cyborg.

On an Albert Pyun kick after all the Nemesis films, Decided to give this early Van Damme/cannon films effort a go. Not Van Dammes best, the action stuff is well handled by Pyun who has a real flair for action scenes. Van Damme is tracking a violent gang who killed his lover and took her young sister and is now crossing the country with a Cyborg who might have a cure for the virus that has almost wiped out mankind.
The film boasts some great sets and a nice apocalyptic setting and as I said previously, Pyun can really bring it with the action but the film as a whole doesn't always work as well as it should. In terms of Van Dammes films its better than some of his modern crap but no Hard Target.

Death warrant.

Seeing as the box set has 2 more films from the muscles from Brussels so decided to give them all a watch...
Death warrant is one of Van Damme's best, not Hard Target (directors cut) good but still very entertaining. Here he plays a Mountie working on loan to the LAPD working undercover to bring down a serial killer. After gunning the killer down, he's asked to go into a maximum security prison to find out who is killing the inmates. Inside his ability to kick ass help keeps him alive and he discovers a conspiracy that involves the guards and possibly even the governor.
Death Warrant is buckets of fun. Serial killers, Prison riots, shankings and more. It's probably miles off from real prison but its still great. It's well paced, shot and refuses to get dull. Its definitely in my top 5 Van Damme films.

Double Impact.

Van damme plays twin brothers separated at birth but encouraged by Geoffrey Lewis to team up, head to Hong Kong and fight the gang boss who killed their parents. Its easy to tell the 'good' twin and 'bad' twin as one wears pastels, the other all in black. when it comes to killing however, both are pretty good at kicking ass and the film is full of gun fights and kicks to the head.
double impact has some pacing issues but is still entertaining. The twins effect is ropey in a few places but actually holds up for the most part. It has perhaps one of the most gratuitous sex scenes I've seen (not that I'm complaining, the lead actress has an incredible rack) and is good solid fun.

Incidentally the blu-ray release of this 3 film set is still stupidly cheap.....
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...3&s=dvd&sr=1-3


Day the earth caught fire.

After wall to wall action for two days I decided to slow things down somewhat with this classic from Val Guest. Nuclear testing knocks the earth off its access and a hard drinking journalist discovers an Alarming secret the Government is hiding, that the earth is heading towards the sun. As the planet heats up and the water evaporates the world governments must work together to save mankind.
shot in a realistic, and at times almost documentary style with a dedication to as much realism as possible. While the science of the film can have holes poked through it Guest manages to sell the premise brilliantly and as the film progresses things become unbearably tense.
The BFI restoration looks astonishing and provides some fantastic bonus materials. If you haven't shelled out for this already then I highly recommend this as one of the best science fiction disaster films produced in the UK.
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