Slipstream (1989)
Country: GB
Technical: col 102m
Director: Steven M. Lisberger
Cast: Mark Hamill, Bob Peck, Bill Paxton
Synopsis:
In the future, when the Earth has been laid waste and is swept by a ferocious wind, a policeman and a renegade vie for custody of a runaway android.
Review:
Directed by the maker of Tron, this interestingly premised sci-fi has planes and canyons reminiscent of the kinetic world of that film, and a parallel with Blade Runner is also never far from the mind. Hamill, long absent from the screen, and transformed by grizzled beard and greying hair, does his best with a fair-playing but resolute, and ultimately ruthless, law enforcer who loses his appeal as a character. Meanwhile, Peck has fun as a quizzically enigmatic android, who has killed once and is not sure why, and hankers after the same kind of indistinctly defined utopia as Rutget Hauer's replicant in Blade Runner. Several other distinguished actors appear, but the already weird and obscure scenario gets bogged down in a Zardoz-like resolution. A parable about Man's disrespect for Nature being turned back on him is clearly intended, but loses force when the Yorkshire, Northumberland and Cappadocian locations are so recognisable as such, and Peck's discovery of human imperfection is inconsequential.
Country: GB
Technical: col 102m
Director: Steven M. Lisberger
Cast: Mark Hamill, Bob Peck, Bill Paxton
Synopsis:
In the future, when the Earth has been laid waste and is swept by a ferocious wind, a policeman and a renegade vie for custody of a runaway android.
Review:
Directed by the maker of Tron, this interestingly premised sci-fi has planes and canyons reminiscent of the kinetic world of that film, and a parallel with Blade Runner is also never far from the mind. Hamill, long absent from the screen, and transformed by grizzled beard and greying hair, does his best with a fair-playing but resolute, and ultimately ruthless, law enforcer who loses his appeal as a character. Meanwhile, Peck has fun as a quizzically enigmatic android, who has killed once and is not sure why, and hankers after the same kind of indistinctly defined utopia as Rutget Hauer's replicant in Blade Runner. Several other distinguished actors appear, but the already weird and obscure scenario gets bogged down in a Zardoz-like resolution. A parable about Man's disrespect for Nature being turned back on him is clearly intended, but loses force when the Yorkshire, Northumberland and Cappadocian locations are so recognisable as such, and Peck's discovery of human imperfection is inconsequential.
Country: GB
Technical: col 102m
Director: Steven M. Lisberger
Cast: Mark Hamill, Bob Peck, Bill Paxton
Synopsis:
In the future, when the Earth has been laid waste and is swept by a ferocious wind, a policeman and a renegade vie for custody of a runaway android.
Review:
Directed by the maker of Tron, this interestingly premised sci-fi has planes and canyons reminiscent of the kinetic world of that film, and a parallel with Blade Runner is also never far from the mind. Hamill, long absent from the screen, and transformed by grizzled beard and greying hair, does his best with a fair-playing but resolute, and ultimately ruthless, law enforcer who loses his appeal as a character. Meanwhile, Peck has fun as a quizzically enigmatic android, who has killed once and is not sure why, and hankers after the same kind of indistinctly defined utopia as Rutget Hauer's replicant in Blade Runner. Several other distinguished actors appear, but the already weird and obscure scenario gets bogged down in a Zardoz-like resolution. A parable about Man's disrespect for Nature being turned back on him is clearly intended, but loses force when the Yorkshire, Northumberland and Cappadocian locations are so recognisable as such, and Peck's discovery of human imperfection is inconsequential.