Post by Slinger on Aug 10, 2022 13:11:00 GMT
I've just discovered that one of my all-time favourite little cult films is on Amazon, for free.
Split Second (1992) stars the incomparable Rutger Hauer, along with Kim Cattrall, Neil Duncan (as Dick Durkin. No really.) Michael J. Pollard, Alun Armstrong, Pete Postlethwaite, and Ian Dury amongst others.
Unstable behaviour? Rutger Hauer? I don't believe it.
I won't say anymore, except that there is a phrase in common usage today that might have been used in a movie for the first time here. It predates the game Doom, with its "BFG" by a year. Big F*cking Guns," - you (possibly) heard it here first folks, courtesy of Dick Durkin.
I'm going to thoroughly enjoy rewatching what turned into a "classic" for Jeanette and me, although I fear it might look terribly dated by today's standards. But I don't care.
Split Second (1992) stars the incomparable Rutger Hauer, along with Kim Cattrall, Neil Duncan (as Dick Durkin. No really.) Michael J. Pollard, Alun Armstrong, Pete Postlethwaite, and Ian Dury amongst others.
In the year 2008 global warming, and heavy rainfall, have left large areas of London flooded. Rookie police officer Dick Durkin is assigned to partner with Harley Stone, a burnt-out and highly cynical veteran homicide detective who, according to his commanding officer, survives on "anxiety, coffee, and chocolate" after being unable to prevent the death of his partner, Foster, by a serial killer three years previously. Now, the murders have begun again and Stone is obsessed with the case. An Oxford-educated psychologist, Durkin is ordered to stick with Stone at all times and report any unstable behaviour.
I won't say anymore, except that there is a phrase in common usage today that might have been used in a movie for the first time here. It predates the game Doom, with its "BFG" by a year. Big F*cking Guns," - you (possibly) heard it here first folks, courtesy of Dick Durkin.
I'm going to thoroughly enjoy rewatching what turned into a "classic" for Jeanette and me, although I fear it might look terribly dated by today's standards. But I don't care.
