SPLIT SECOND

SPLIT SECOND
   Film (1991). Challenge. Dir Tony Maylam, Ian Sharp, starring Rutger Hauer, Kim Cattrall, Neil Duncan, Michael J. Pollard, Alun Armstrong, Pete Postlethwaite, Ian Dury. Screenplay by Gary Scott Thompson. 91 mins. Colour.
   London, AD2008. The Thames has risen and society is crumbling. Coffee-drinking hard man Hauer and comics-reading Scots intellectual Duncan are brawling buddy cops on the trail of a heart-eating villain who carves astrological symbols on what's left of his victims' chests. Proposed solutions include mutant DNA and the Devil, but in the finale thebaddie turns out to be a regulation ALIEN-style Big Monster With Teeth who confronts Hauer on a tube train. Inexplicable events, disappearing characters and logical lapses abound. Maylam, who directs this sf SPLATTER MOVIE at a rapid plod, establishes a Drowned World atmosphere by pouringwater into all the sets and painting everything grey; Sharp took over for the action climax. Despite the murkiness of this future world, Hauer stays cool in sunglasses; Duncan's enthusiastic performance offers the sole touch of character.
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia. . 2011.

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