With work being so hectic lately and knowing I had to post some reviews, I kind of got side tracked but i'm back with a new review for you, one for the one of the most insane movies i've ever seen and one that i really really enjoyed. Here's 1990s Dolph Lundgren action sci-fi buddy movie Dark Angel...
Do you know what I
love?...i'll tell you. I love it when I take a dvd off the shelf that
I've never seen before and discover how incredibly fuckin' awesome
that film is. Well that happened again the other day with a film
called Dark Angel or I Come In Peace depending on what part of the
world you hail from. It's the kind of film that you damn well would
never get a green light these days, an action/sci-fi movie with a
large amount of violence, starring the truly badass Dolph Lundgren as
a cop who plays by his own rules, but then again, don't all movie
cops play by their own rules, anyway I pressed play on the remote and
discovered a truly insane movie that had alien drug dealers, alien
bounty hunters, a cop named Caine and a smart-alec FBI agent. This
film is incredible and i'm going to tell you why you should check
this film out...
The film follows
detective Jack Caine, a 7 foot tall cop, who roundhouse kicks and
shoots criminals like a badass (that word is going to be used a
lot during this review), finds himself lumbered with a straight
laced FBI agent after Caine's partner is killed during a botched drug
sting by a gangster while flying CD (yep a flying CD) takes out the
rest of the men in the room. Well it turns out that the dangerous
killer disc belongs to a 7 foot tall, blonde alien drug dealer who
had come to earth to steal the endorphins of humans as it's used as a
drug on his home planet. He injects his victim with cocaine then
punches a tube into their head to suck out the endorphins. Caine and
his new FBI partner set out on the trail of the unstoppable alien as
the bodies pile up. Caine also has to deal with his love life as his
girlfriend is the city corona and trying to find the man who killed
his former partner. This films is absolutely mental, the alien has
this hand gun that seemingly fires napalm and destroys anything
around it, Dolph has black hair, which he only ever had in two
movies, this one and The Punisher, it's good buddy film banter
between Caine and his FBI partner Larry and the chief is always
'riding his ass'.
The films has some epic
action sequences, not on the scale of any of today’s action movies,
but director Craig R. Baxley (Action Jackson/Stone Cold) seems
to want to blow up as many cars as humanly possible, to be honest I
don't think I've ever seen a film with more explosions, well maybe
Transformers 2 or some other Michael Bay dumb-a-thon. There was a
strange charm that these films had during the 80s and early 90s, I
think they all stem from Walter Hill's 48 Hours due to the mix
matched partners. A lot of films had this theme, Lethal Weapon had
the unstable Riggs and the Sensible family man Murtaugh, The Hard Way
had Michael J. Fox's actor Nick Lang and and James Woods cop John
Moss and Hill's own Red Heat had wise cracking Chicago detective Art
Ridzik and stoic Russian, Captain Ivan Danko, but the film Dark Angel
most closely resembles is Jack Shoulder's 1987 film The Hidden
(review here) where a cop is partnered with an FBI agent to track
down an alien only this time round the fed aint from another planet.
The banter between Lundgren and Larry, played by Brian Benden, is
pretty funny and the two work well with each other. German actor
Matthias Hues is a tall (6.5ft) imposing figure and fits well into
the role of the alien and in one scene, where he runs out from a
burning car, brings back memories of Robert Patric in Terminator 2.
Dark Angel is terrific
fun, it's loud, it's dumb and it's so much fun. If you want an
intelligent action film, then you need to stay well away from this
and watch something like Body Of Lies or any one of the Bourne films,
but if you want to see big men with big guns blowing the shit out of
the place with some great comic banter and some truly explosive
action scenes, then you need to check this film out ASAP. You will
not be disappointed. I absolutely loved it. It's sad that they don't
make movies like this anymore....
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