OK, for some reason, in the future we have larger than necessary robots doing the jobs that humans are tired of doing. When they screw up, Tom Selleck is here to use the awesome authority he has in the police force to shut down (usually destroys) these robots before more harm is done. There are field bots for corn crops, house bots which do the dishes and the like, constructo-bots that stack things where you need them to stack things, and office bots and all different types of them.
Now, Tom Selleck has another job of fending off spider bots, which were designed to sadistically kill people at the will of Gene Simmons' character. But Selleck better fend off Simmons' crazy magic bullets which contains an explosive in each one, but only goes after exact people who are programmed in it to kill.
Sound crazy...yeah, it was. A stretched-thin story made good use out of its imagination. The special effects were OK (the magic bullet-cam, the laser-gun Selleck uses, the "fast" RC-cars packed with explosives), but most were pretty rudimentary compared with others at the time. The music was done by Jerry Goldsmith (a plus) who's worked on Legend, Alien, The Omen, Chinatown, Basic Instinct, Gremlins, and a slew of others.
Gene Simmons was an interesting choice as the bad guy (who apparently was only chosen after seeing him mug an evil-looking face for a while), but he was entirely too evil for his brainiac ways that he was supposed to be. Kirstie Alley was probably cast after saying yes to her strip-down scene (in which you don't see any nudity). It was cool to see Joey Cramer (from Flight of the Navigator fame) and GW Bailey (from Police Acamdemt fame) as extra characters. Tom Selleck was always on as the hero with a fear of heights.
It was an interesting and weird tale of the future with robotic bullets and robots running amuck, but the fun was very average during the whole film, with little more than corny little jumping and exploding robots to remember. And what is up with all the sparks at the end credits? Are there welders above them repairing an important job or what? Whatever...interesting to see.
Now, Tom Selleck has another job of fending off spider bots, which were designed to sadistically kill people at the will of Gene Simmons' character. But Selleck better fend off Simmons' crazy magic bullets which contains an explosive in each one, but only goes after exact people who are programmed in it to kill.
Sound crazy...yeah, it was. A stretched-thin story made good use out of its imagination. The special effects were OK (the magic bullet-cam, the laser-gun Selleck uses, the "fast" RC-cars packed with explosives), but most were pretty rudimentary compared with others at the time. The music was done by Jerry Goldsmith (a plus) who's worked on Legend, Alien, The Omen, Chinatown, Basic Instinct, Gremlins, and a slew of others.
Gene Simmons was an interesting choice as the bad guy (who apparently was only chosen after seeing him mug an evil-looking face for a while), but he was entirely too evil for his brainiac ways that he was supposed to be. Kirstie Alley was probably cast after saying yes to her strip-down scene (in which you don't see any nudity). It was cool to see Joey Cramer (from Flight of the Navigator fame) and GW Bailey (from Police Acamdemt fame) as extra characters. Tom Selleck was always on as the hero with a fear of heights.
It was an interesting and weird tale of the future with robotic bullets and robots running amuck, but the fun was very average during the whole film, with little more than corny little jumping and exploding robots to remember. And what is up with all the sparks at the end credits? Are there welders above them repairing an important job or what? Whatever...interesting to see.