Amazon.com video review:
Jean-Claude Van Damme, a.k.a. "the Muscles from Brussels," had
only a few movies to his credit when he played the hero in this lame
postapocalyptic action flick from 1989. It's really just another
martial-arts movie, dressed down with near-future trash and dirty sets
that have "low budget" written all over them. Van Damme plays the
protective escort for a half-human, half-cyborg woman whose
programming contains a possible cure for a plague that's threatening
to wipe out the entire population of Earth. But the woman is kidnapped
by Van Damme's evil nemesis (is there any other kind?) while they are
en route to her Atlanta headquarters. That leads Van Damme right into
a lion's den of sadomasochistic torture and torment. If you've made it
this far (and if you have, why?), you're probably a founding member of
the Jean-Claude Van Damme fan club. To everyone else: Don't say you
weren't warned--this is the kind of movie in which naming characters
after electric guitars (Van Damme's character is named "Gibson
Rickenbacker") qualifies as clever screenwriting. --Jeff
Shannon
