Do any of you scifi watchers remember The Fallen? It was a true masterpiece! In it, Denzel Washington pursues an evil entity that seems to hop from bad guy to bad guy. The song, "Time, time, time is on my side..." played throughout that little-watched masterpiece and took on a whole new meaning!
Lest I digress, The Fallen was actually a re-make of the earlier masterpiece, The Hidden. You need just a slight suspension of disbelief (ha!) to enjoy the concept of an extraterrestrial monster that leaps from human to human, causing otherwise nice people to shoot up banks and wreak havoc on society!
Check out the pictures above: The smiling lunatic with the blood on his forehead has just been invaded by the evil monster and now finds it fun to go out and shoot down folks in the street. Below him, a bar dancer, rather quiet by nature, changes quite drastically when the outer space being invades her body!
Now look at the next picture. To the rescue, our wonder cops! That is cool Michael Nourri on the left. He got his start in Flashdance, the early 80s hit movie, where he was the handsome hunk who dated the sexy female welder. On the right, a very young Kyle MacLachian, who would become a big star later on in the rather tasteless film, Showgirls, with Elizabeth Berkley.
There's a significant difference between the cops. One is human, and other is, well, from some other place! Problem is, neither is sure of the agenda. So they are cop buddies but also suspect each other. You get the drift. Lots of fun!
The film is full of tense action scenes. Amazing for the year 1987, when movie action scenes were far more benign than today's shoot-em-uppers. I could not take a break to go potty!
Leave your good sense elsewhere, open up your scifi imagination, sit back and watch cops chase bad dudes--and ladies--who run amok!
Oh, and be careful of approaching any of these bad dudes....the evil creature might just invade you!
Enjoy.
