Responds artillery-laden Hauer: “Well, Satan is in deep. Duncan starts reading up on the occult-as the psycho-beast apparently uses its claws to leave very legible English messages and mystical symbols in blood-and eventually decides the unearthly killer must be Satan himself.
Giger rip-off.īeing the usual renegade cop, Hauer is forced to take a partner on the case, an academic type played fussily by Neil Duncan, ensuring the picture its full quotient of buddy-movie cliches. (A few inches of water, that is this ain’t “Thunderball.”) We do also learn that there’s a bothersome rat epidemic, and co-star Kim Cattrall even calls the monster “rat bastard!,” among other epithets-although, when finally, fleetingly glimpsed, the ugly fella looks a lot less like a giant rodent than just another H. Split/Second, released in the UK as Split/Second: Velocity, is a 2015 American 3D computer-animated comedy action-adventure film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures, based on the 2010 arcade racing video game of the same name developed by Black Rock Studios and published by Disney Interactive Studios.
Split Second is a mixture of sci-fi and horror that focuses on a string of violent serial murders, and their connection with hard-ass detective Harley Stone, played by Rutger Hauer.
Though Hauer’s presence stirs inevitable echoes of “Blade Runner,” we don’t find out much more about the future here than we do about the monster, after an opening crawl offers some nonsense about global warming effects having put most of London underwater. Split Second is typical 80s/90s sci-fi/horror movie stuff, it has a campy, looks familiar, alien monster, weapons galore and a tough guy Rambo super cop (Rutger Hauer) hyped up on coffee & chocolates, who takes on the chaos with both barrels. The film doesn’t so much come across as messy as it does confused and unsure, specifically about the story it wants to tell the audience. Lucky for the Brits, Schwarzenegger surrogate Rutger Hauer is on the case, as a guilt-wracked detective determined to track down the thing that killed his partner. In the movie Split Second, Harley Stone (played by Rutger Hauer) is a cop who often flouts the rules working in a decaying, flooded London circa 2008 (the.
The toothsome, sentient, 10-foot-tall creature (unwritten law has dictated that all movie monsters be 10 feet tall ever since “Alien”) is devouring the hearts of random victims in London, circa 2008. The most obvious models for this quasi-sci-fi are the “Predator” movies, with gullible audiences as the intended prey.
It’s hard to think of a less satisfying creature feature in recent memory than the simply terrible “Split Second” (citywide), which by the end not only has allowed few glimpses of the beast in question but hasn’t even explained where the big guy came from or what kind of animus, supernatural or otherwise, is responsible for its strange m.o.