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Hands of Steel (1986)

Vendetta dal futuro (aka Hands of Steel, aka Fists of Steel, Vendetta From the Future and Atomic Cyborg)

The trouble with the post apocalypse world is that every body seems to be dressed in 1980's fashion,either that or the variation of the coloured boiler suit. Daniel Greene is Paco Queruak EH! (who seems to have worked a lot with the Farrelly brothers ) is a killer cyborg,with you guessed it Fists of Steel. Paco is programmed to kill a renowned scientist who is on the verge of saving the planet ,(im assuming from nothing specific,just general doom and gloom,and probably industrialist Francis Turner, played by John Saxon). In fact im not sure if this film is set in the present or the future as the film sets seem to go from futuristic wobbly sets,to what looks like rather dodgy bar in Arizona,full of sweaty arm wrestlers and baseball cap wearing truckers. Sergio Martino (as Martin Dolman) saves himself time and money alluding to the fact that Greene is a cyborg but without going to all the fuss of showing the audience much in the way of special effects. Daniel Greene is certainly no worse in this role than say Dolph in Universal Soldier or Arnie in Raw Deal,he stares quite a bit and delivers his dialogue like he really is a robot. Taking his shirt off every so often just to flash his biceps, and remind the audience that we are in the presence of a dude who is built like the preferable brick out house.In fact Greene has quite a good screen presence,whether its being tortured with his top off or beating up the bad guys with his top off,and in the hands of a better director with a better script etc this could of been a minor classic.Of course this is all just an Italian rip off ,of Terminator even down to the adjusting of his robotic arm. Hands of Steel (1986) is flawed and stupid,but it does have a charm of its own.