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Split Second [DVD]
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Format | Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC |
Contributor | Ian Sharp, Ian Dury, Alun Armstrong, Tony Steedman, Roberta Eaton, Gary Scott Thompson, Steven Hartley, Rutger Hauer, Michael J. Pollard, Tony Maylam, Colin Skeaping, Alastair Duncan, Sara Stockbridge, Pete Postlethwaite, Kim Cattrall See more |
Language | English |
Runtime | 1 hour and 30 minutes |
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Comes from a private collection and a smoke free home still has shrink wrap . Will ship the same day if possible.
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Rutger Hauer and Kim Cattrall star in this festival of stolen plots and embarrassing dialogue. Harley Stone (Hauer) is a tough cop. The kind of cop who lives by his own rules. The kind of cop who smokes, swears, and eats junk food. The kind of cop who slams people into walls to drive home a conversational point. If it sounds like you've seen this character before, you have. Split Second is not so much a movie as a cinematic crib sheet, cheerfully ripping off Jaws, Aliens, and Hauer's own Blade Runner, just to name a few. Which is not for a moment to suggest that the movie isn't fun to watch. Connoisseurs of horror-action also-rans will be in spasms of delight over everything from the ludicrous plot to the cookie-cutter dialogue ("They say he's the best." "He is.") to the incredibly misguided decision to have Stone eat chocolate truffles throughout the entire film. It is honestly sometimes hard to tell what is an intentional joke and what's just plain bad. Anyway, there's a serial killer rampaging through London in 2008 and Stone doesn't want a new partner, especially one with all that book learning and blah, blah, blah. Just turn your brain off and enjoy the magic. --Ali Davis
Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : R (Restricted)
- Product Dimensions : 7.75 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 3.2 ounces
- Director : Ian Sharp, Tony Maylam
- Media Format : Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
- Run time : 1 hour and 30 minutes
- Release date : March 5, 2002
- Actors : Rutger Hauer, Kim Cattrall, Alastair Duncan, Michael J. Pollard, Alun Armstrong
- Subtitles: : English, Spanish, French
- Language : English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
- Studio : Hbo Home Video
- ASIN : B00005UEQW
- Writers : Gary Scott Thompson
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #126,770 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #2,832 in Science Fiction DVDs
- #11,973 in Action & Adventure DVDs
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I love this movie. It feels like a bet between two writers to see who can stuff the most genres into one movie before it explodes off the screen and fills your living room like the flood ravages streets of London. It is a buddy-cop, demonic serial killer, slimy monster, cyber punk sci-fi horror suspense thriller. This movie throws so much at you you’d think it was an angry gorilla hurling barrels at you for 90 minutes. The pace never lets up which is a big plus giving it an infectious energy that you’d find in this sort of late 80s early 90s sci-fi movie that had an insane plot that makes absolutely no sense if you ever slow down to examine it. The actors are great, it is one of those weird 90s productions that gets a really strong cross section of actors despite its low budget aims. Rutger Hauer is having a great time in this with his awesome sunglasses and cigar chomping one liners. Kim Catrall and her amazing sci-fi hair is also great. She really seems to shine in these movies even with not nearly enough screen time. But it is the supporting cast that really makes this stand out. Where else do you get Alun Armstrong, Pete Postlethwaite, Ian Dury, and Michael J Pollard in the same movie, nowhere that’s where. This kind of surreal weird alchemy could only come from the 90s before movies had to get too self aware to get away with something this insane and so much fun.
I digress, this move is old and cheaply made, so if you're looking for some high budget, big action, fast paced, well written work of art... No... Not here. However, if you're the type that likes quirky, middling production quality science fiction movies that have a lot of character, even if the acting is a little stiff at times, then you'll like this.
The general premise is that there is an occult-obsessed serial killer on the loose. This "psychotic with the personality of a psychopath" is mutilating innocent victims and taunting the cop who's partner he killed years previously. As the cast grows and their focus tightens, eventually they come face to face with the "monster" they've been pursuing, and being pursued by. Is everything as it seems? You'll have to watch the movie, because as uninspired as the ending is, the trip there is early 90s B-grade excellence.
Guide: It's got some breasts, no over the top sex scenes, there is gore, not buckets of it, but it's there, plenty of foul language, quarter century old badly researched pop psychology is prevalent, British humor.
I personally give Split Second 5*s. However, I'll point out quickly, this is a movie you either love or hate. There is no real in between.
My all time favorite of his remains 'Call of the Wild', based on the Jack London novel, narrated by Richard Dreyfus. I found the DVD once, but it wasn't for Region 1.. Still looking for it ... maybe I'll get lucky?
I've been trying to find this DVD for several years, but when found, it was way too expensive, even for me. Finally, I found this copy for less than $60. Waited long enough - snapped it up. We watched it the night we got it. My 16 year-old grandson came down for the weekend ... we watched it again. Our son cane down three days later to pick him up. He had liked it on VHS, so we watched it again - on DVD. This is one movie that will wear out. Maybe I should keep an eye out for an extra copy at a reasonable price? Yup.
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Reviewed in Canada on February 29, 2024