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I’m convinced that everyone’s uneasiness and fear towards Brad Dourif in this was 100% genuine.

It’s a 90’s cyberpunk slasher with a truly unhinged Brad Dourif and a giant murder robot. Of course I was going to love it! This is prime 90’s cheesiness with all the focus on the power of computers and hackers! This era of sci-fi film is so charming for some reason. I dunno, I just love it.

I’m a sucker for plots that have typical enemies forced to join together to survive. The tension and gradual respect that grows between the characters is a lot of fun. You’ve got the corrupt corporate folks and the super…

From a 1994 that is all soft-focus dispersed lighting, Death Machine has to do with the day-to-day travails of the CHAANK Corporation, a high-tech weapons manufacturer whose mindwiped heavy-armor supersoldiers don't work so good, but their Darkside Mark Pauline division, run by a greasy-locked, emotionally halted, industrial grunge Brad Dourif who makes Psycho Death Bots cause they are wicked awesome, is doing so great they are like literally eating the corporation from the inside out. This is a corporation mostly headed by men with names like Dante, Carpenter, Scott Ridley, etc, but Brad Dourif calls everyone dude except for his new boss, who is a woman he cannot relate to except in the grossest sexual terms because what is a…

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Bis vor einigen glücklichen Tagen, ich liegend am Strand mit den aus dem Sand lugenden Zehn, meine natürliche Bräune sich wandelnd von Ahorn- zu Eschen- zu Eichen- und schließlich zu Krischbraun, mein erlesenes, wahnsinnig kreatives und originelles Haupt unter dem über mir ragenden Palmenblatt und dessen Schatten liegend, meine Rechte nach rechts greifend zu meinem frischgepressten, weil heute Morgen selbst gepflückten Orangen zu meinem Orangensaft, meine Linke lose vom Liegestuhl baumelnd der Vergegenwärtigung meines Umfeld bei Sonnenschein, Sand unter meinen Füßen, frischgepressten Orangensaft, die Augen über den Strand zum Wasser schweifend und dort an den zuckersüßen Eingeborenenmädchen verharrend sich sammelnder Speichel, verknüpfte ich so…

Last week a friend and I started chatting on DM via Twitter because we were both super bored, talking about things like confinement, movies and the Hoptober era.

In the chat, he mentions to me "you know Death Machine, the 90s movie, have you seen it?’’ I told him, no, but I went to check my closet and found a DVD of it, he won't even remember that it had it for over 10 years.

The biggest problem has is that it's too old-fashioned to start knowing that it's a 1994 film and the story is set in 2003! The FXs, the locations feel very old and the narrative is too worn out because like this one they have been…

Though its first hour is an uninvolving slog, Stephen Norrington's "Death Machine" eventually warms up into a thrilling, future-set genre piece. It takes too long to get there, however, forcing the rough-hewn science fiction film to languish as a dull but watchable genre entry.

Taking place in a gritty, tech-driven near future, "Death Machine" revolves around the developers of a fighting machine that is eventually unleashed to deadly results. There are character-based beats that misfire early on, but, once the titular machine is on the loose, the story compels.

Norrington's production is competent and awash in future grit and future grays. Speed is steady, but the quick pace is meaningless until it bears narrative importance toward the film's end. The…