[18] Exchange your brain at the
door for a bucket of popcorn, and you'll enjoy this far more. It's
fast, vacuous stuff, with our mostly concealed hero treading a dodgy
line between law-man and vigilante, in a dark and highly Blade
Runner-esque future. Feel free to ignore the amusing but pointless
henchman, and the nicely decorative female, seemingly there just to
prove the hero is no sword-swallower. On the other hand, the villains
are far more colourful, sharp, and get to blow things up for no
readily apparent reason. Beneath the sweeping orchestral score
(naturally shoe-horning in a few rock toons, for the obligatory
soundtrack LP), the real star is the set. Must be embarrassing to be
out-acted by buildings... Cinema as spectacle, this is an empty barrel
making a hell of a lot of noise.
B-
