21.1.11

hardware (1990)


"Machines don't understand sacrifice - neither do morons."
Post-Apocalypse earth, where much of the world is a scorched desert. In this wasteland a scavenger finds some robotic parts that he hopes to sell on. In the city Moses Baxter (Dylan McDermott) buys them for his girlfriend Jill (Stacey Travis), who makes sculptures out of such junk. What they don't realise is that the parts he has bought are from a military cyborg, and it's not yet dead. Reconstituting itself, it sets about terrorising Jill. Can Moses get to her in time to stop the carnage?
Stanley bumps up the style quotent, in this stalker thriller, and adds a smattering of rock star cameo's, such as Iggy Pop and Lemmy. Yeah it's not a masterpiece, it's cheap and badly paced, and yeah there are plot holes, but I still find it an enjoyable ride.

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