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Charles BandOperatőr:
Mac AhlbergSzereplők:
Tim Thomerson, Helen Hunt, Michael Stefani, Art LaFleur, Richard Herd, Anne Seymour, Michael McGrady, Richard Erdman, Biff Manard, Wiley Harker (több)Tartalmak(1)
Angel City, 2247. Trooper Jack Deth is battling the last disciples of Whistler, who used his psychic powers to trance and control his army. Though he'd been thought dead, he's very much alive in the year 1985. Whistler's master plan-kill the ancestors of the City Council. With the Council disbanded, nothing can stop him from controlling the city. Jack Deth is sent back in time to inhabit his ancestor's body and dismantle Whistler's mission. (forgalmazó hivatalos szövege)
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On the one hand, a lot of B-movies blatantly rip off their A-list counterparts, but on the other hand, they are sometimes an inexhaustible source of inspiration. Trancers is a shining example of this. On the surface, it may copy Blade Runner (a hard-boiled whodunit that starts in a neo-noir future) and Terminator (a villain travels back in time to the 1980s to kill the ancestors of his adversaries), but inside it all, it manages to create its own world and infuse it with a heavy dose of previously untested ideas. For example, you travel back in time by being transported into the body of your ancestor after being injected with a drug. The main villain attacks using hypnotized people. And the action scenes are slowed down by special time-manipulating clocks. Sure, we've seen all of this in later A-grade movies, but I wonder where they got it from? The plot overall doesn't make much sense, and the main draw is the aforementioned small ideas that the film plays with in a very funny way. For example, when the police chief from the future goes to the past, he is transported into the body of an eight-year-old girl in pajamas, who then comes to shake the main character down at night with a Dirty Harry look on her face. On the other hand, there are a number of moments that are obviously not meant to be funny and are unintentionally so. But thanks to a great central cast (Tim Thomerson is hard-boiled to the bone and the chemistry between him and the likeable Helen Hunt works as it should), it's a fine entertainment that, at a modest 76 minutes, passes by perhaps a little too quickly.
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I'm happy with what I saw here. It's a fast-paced B-movie that ticks along pleasantly, with some good moments where it's even funny. The main hero is appropriately tough, and Helen Hunt is still young and quite innocent here. I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it, and the premise is actually quite good and not completely worn out.
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