The film takes place somewhere USA in 2047. Sponge (Danny Glover) opens up with a confusing narration as an explanation for the current state of the US. Sponge belongs to an organization called "Green War" who are at war with the "Confederacy." They hack into satellites and use them for communication, then destroy the information when the Confederacy re-hacks into it. A particular satellite went down without the data being destroyed. Wilburn's (Stephen Baldwin) job is to destroy the chip. Unfortunately it fell into one of the many "radioactive zones" where nuclear waste is haphazardly dumped. While there, the radiation is "fryin'" his brain. Colonel Asimov (Rutger Hauer) has a phantom operation going in the area and hires Lobo (Michael Madsen) to burn the mountain of bodies and help out. Daryl Hannah is there because Neva Leoni couldn't handle all the eye candy.
This film was a stinker. It was so bad, I liked it. Madsen had his own swagger music to open a car door, light a cigarette and stand there. Three bullet shots to the head to far from fatal. Rutger Hauer looks like he is wearing a converted German Nazi uniform and what was that cracked skull on Hannah's uniform? Just an extra patch laying around?
The nuclear science was a farce. There is no such thing as a anti-radiation drug. Radiation would effect the brain last, not first. It does not cause hallucinations. There is really no need to dispose of radioactive material in a haphazard fashion, even if the industry was allowed to do it. I had to laugh when they showed multiple cooling towers when they talked about radioactive waste. While the towers are ominous, many plants don't have them. They simply cool the cooling water before it goes back into the river. They are not radioactive. That comes from "the stack." And you don't venture into any area "saturated with cesium and plutonium."
The first kill scene of a shotgun to the head made me laugh with the blood splatter. However, after that the film didn't live up to its original grindhouse style and attempted to become a message film instead.
Some lines from the film :
Madsen: "You can trust me. I believe in God." Hauer: "I kill everyday, but I am not a criminal. Hauer to Hannah in uniform: "Stop looking so sexy."
Politically the film meets at the far left and far right with common conspiracy theories about haves and have nots, Illuminati and Bilderbergs.
The film works as a cult drinking film with everyone wearing aluminum hats to keep the government from stealing your thoughts.
Guide: F-bomb, sex. No nudity
This film was a stinker. It was so bad, I liked it. Madsen had his own swagger music to open a car door, light a cigarette and stand there. Three bullet shots to the head to far from fatal. Rutger Hauer looks like he is wearing a converted German Nazi uniform and what was that cracked skull on Hannah's uniform? Just an extra patch laying around?
The nuclear science was a farce. There is no such thing as a anti-radiation drug. Radiation would effect the brain last, not first. It does not cause hallucinations. There is really no need to dispose of radioactive material in a haphazard fashion, even if the industry was allowed to do it. I had to laugh when they showed multiple cooling towers when they talked about radioactive waste. While the towers are ominous, many plants don't have them. They simply cool the cooling water before it goes back into the river. They are not radioactive. That comes from "the stack." And you don't venture into any area "saturated with cesium and plutonium."
The first kill scene of a shotgun to the head made me laugh with the blood splatter. However, after that the film didn't live up to its original grindhouse style and attempted to become a message film instead.
Some lines from the film :
Madsen: "You can trust me. I believe in God." Hauer: "I kill everyday, but I am not a criminal. Hauer to Hannah in uniform: "Stop looking so sexy."
Politically the film meets at the far left and far right with common conspiracy theories about haves and have nots, Illuminati and Bilderbergs.
The film works as a cult drinking film with everyone wearing aluminum hats to keep the government from stealing your thoughts.
Guide: F-bomb, sex. No nudity