Adrenalin: Fear the Rush (1996)

Fantastic!

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

It would be unfair to comment that Adrenalin is boring at all. Although it was a low budget Pyun film, it has its moments. Although I watched the movie on TV, I still got some excitement. Not bad as a B grade thriller for mediocre audience like me! One thing I am still confused about, in the beginning of the movie it reads "Romania, western Europe", but the movie trailer says it is Boston.Another plot hole of the film, to me, is if the guy who was infected by a virus something like rabies, seems to be sane and very intelligent. How could he be so clever and retain his mental composure? He was supposed to be delirious or in coma instead. I don't think the writer cared about this details. 3 out of 10, for the sake of the face value of Lambert, my icon.

Albert Pyun is a good director. This is not his best work, but not worst either.The story is about A Russian Government that has collapsed (although the filming was in Croatia) , and some kind of virus leaks out, killing lots of people. In this chaos, police finds out that some guy has a deadly disease , and some officers are sent to catch him....The cast is good. Christopher Lambert and Natasha Henstrige both did a good job. The Killer is played by a stuntman Craig Davis, who, in my opinion looks pretty scary in makeup. Cast also includes Andrew Divoff and Norbert Weisser (who appears in nearly every Albert Pyun film).Nealy 90 % of the movie, Lambert and Henstridge spend in catacombs, dark tunnels, following the killer who seems to be strong as King Kong, and shoots like Rambo. The Atmosphere is there, second part of the movie is really creepy, but overall it gets boring as the time goes on. Also i didn't like the directing, every time there's a close up , camera is jumping, so u cant see whats going on.Everything else is okay. A creepy little sci-fi thriller.

Let's face it; this movie is bad. Not decent, not with one or two things going for it... just bad. I see no reason to beat around the bush(a rather silly thing to do anyway... what is there to beat around a bush? What reason, for what purpose? Anyway...), so let's just agree that this movie doesn't actually have anything going for it. The plot is thin and hardly developed at all. The acting is hammy. The characters are paper-thin. The dialog and writing in general is rather sophomoric. The mood is lazily set, and the atmosphere is too limited and is too weakly built. The suspense is practically non-existent. The monster is pitiful. The action is unimpressive. However, I would like to bring something to the attention of anyone who has seen this film(and maybe more importantly, those who haven't); this film has some pretty interesting cinematography and editing. It's experimental, it takes chances and it creates a unique feel. It pulls you in in a completely different way than a typical mainstream film. This, and this alone, brings this film up to a 2 rating. It makes it just exactly worth watching for film lovers such as myself. But only just barely. I recommend this only to huge fans of movies, and only as a means of study to explore the editing and cinematography. For all other purposes, it's useless. It's been done and it's been done better, many times. 2/10

This is one of those movies that feels like it was made by a bunch of high schoolers with A.D.D. There is no seriously developed plot whatsoever and some scenes are of inexplicable value to what little plot there is. The writers seem to be trying to make a combination of "Outbreak" and "Aliens" but they don't even get close to bringing the movie to any sort of resolution. Avoid this movie like the plague.