Split Second (1992)

Waste of time

Beautiful, moving film.

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Rutger Hauer plays a slightly psychotic cop in a futuristic London facing a supernatural threat. Awesome snappy dialogue and great acting makes this b-grade sci-fi rise above a lot of big budget a-grade movies. The setting for this movie is very dark similar to Blade Runner and Rutger Hauer delivers another great performance. A few interesting actors in this movie that you will recognise from well-known British movies and American series. After Blade Runner and Lady Hawk this is my favourite Rutger Hauer movie, and one of my favourite sci-fi horrors.This movie has everything to be a true cult movie and Rutger Hauer must be the most under rated actor. Watch this movie and enjoy it.

Greetings from Lithuania."Split Second" 1992 is superb movie for a lovers of these kinda of films. By saying "these" kind i mean it'a macho stuff at it's best, with a very cool villain at the center. I saw this picture countless times when i was a kid, loved every frame of it, Rutger Hauer was the ultimate hero / bad ass type of character. This is a monster movie, predator, buddy cop movie at the same time. It has very coll art direction, it's dark, yet very atmospheric. Overall, 1010 for "Split Second" as it is my childhood flick, with ultimate hero at the center, great character development. very Good villain, you can't ask for more, if you love these kind of pictures, you will love this film.

In a futuristic London (2008), the rising sea levels mean that large areas are under feet of water. Hauer plays a rugged S and M cop who lost his partner to some strange rubbery creature. Now the creature is back and its after him, the bloke from Taggert, and Kim Cattralls hairdresser from Star Trek 6.In the nineties, Hauer starred in many Science Fiction movies that had little release on the big screen, but had a very long shelf life on the VHS market. This, Wedlock, and Salute Of The Jugger spring to mind.This is something a little different. Set way in the future, five years ago to be precise at the time of the review, London is waterlogged, and the clubs are more vibrant than ever.Hauer spends most of his day throwing coffee cups into the backseat of his car, slamming the inspectors office door, and walking into Kim Cattrall in the shower.He also has flashbacks of Foster, his partner falling into a big puddle. Narrative is not a primary goal of the film.What you get is ninety or so minutes of him and Duncan wisecracking, walking around sewers, finding people with Their hearts missing. In a strange masochist way, its enjoyable, but never as good as when I first saw it back in the summer of 1992.It ups the ante in the final act, and the revaluation of the creature is some sort of cheap British hybrid of Alien and the Predator.Its a cult movie of the highest order, the credits hold a 'and Michael J Pollard as The Ratcatcher' which would get any bad movie aficionado salivating, but he end product is just a little bland.Worth watching, but will leave you looking around your house for damp patches.But its the best film ever made featuring Hauer having a rubber hand stroke his face.

Good God Almighty. The things Rutger Hauer does to make a buck. In this Blade Runner-ish dystopian thriller, he plays a cop with lovely hair on the trail of a bloodthirsty serial killer that may nor may not be human. Hauer has a new partner, a prissy but game sort who provides the comic relief, and a loyal girlfriend, played by the fetching Kim Cattral. She has an R-rated shower sequence, guys! The film makes little sense, and it gets boring rather quickly. "We need bigger guns" is spoken, a line we have often heard before. If you find yourself awake at 3 a.m. and can't get back to sleep, you might want to catch this. The gore isn't quite as bad as you might think, and the action scenes are basically Hauer and his partner shooting their guns willy nilly.