Reviewed by Nancy Snipper
Boring
and silly, the film gives us Alex Murphy, his loving wife and young son.
Alex is a Detroit cop who ambushes a drug ring. Retaliation means setting off
his car alarm at night, and as he goes to fix it, the car explodes on him. He
is burned completely, except his face. Enter a robot doctor who works for some
big corrupt corporation, and like Humpty Dumpty, Alex is fixed up in a machine
that behaves as an automatic cop whose sensors and reactions detect and bring
down any criminal. Things go wrong and Alex loses his human side, and goes
rogue, trying to find the very people who tried to kill him. Of course, the
crooked cops with whom he worked, even the chief of police were in on the
attempt to take his life – for reasons totally unclear in the film – other than
drug pay-off. In the end, Alex returns to his former self – well whatever is
still left of him body-wise, but he remains in his shiny new cop full-proof
suit and he is reunited behind closed lab doors with his wife and child. The
plot was silly; the characters tin-like and the emotions vacant in the actors.
Directed by Pedro Bromfman, the film roll ought to be boxed, put on the shelf
and labelled as a cold case that need not be reopened.
What
a bad film. The first one was great. It just goes to show how the entire cop
force of Hollywood has deteriorated.
This film was viewed, compliments of Le
SuperClub Vidéotron, 5000, rue Wellington Verdun, QC.
Ce film a été visionné, avec les compliments de Le SuperClub Vidéotron,
5000, rue Wellington Verdun, QC.
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