Funny discovery

I couldn't have known about this movie, which I think did not get a wide release in Italy in the nineties, hadn't a cash strapped local (regional TV) put it into their programming one Saturday night this month.

I will say it should not be compared to those eighties, early nineties movies like Robocop or Aliens: make no mistake, this is much cheesier. It's one of those movies where the monster is hidden until the last scenes and the reason is probably to save on special effects. The future ... well now past, since this movie is set in 2008, of the story is a bleak London which is succumbing to a global catastrophe caused by global warming, with the Thames gradually eating up the city. Of course you are tempted to laugh about those apocalyptic futures, but I tend to find those a bit less funnier since we are in a reality where I can't get out of my town because there is a pandemic.

Anyway, back to the movie: it is solid B-movie, acting is maybe just decent with a lot of faces familiar from other B movies and tits shown copiously. There are a lot of bad words apparently, but this was kinda removed in the Italian dubbing. Rutger Hauer is good, maybe the only actor in this who looks professional, and yet... there is something in this movie which makes you keep watching and not just turning TV off. Maybe in its cheesiness and laughable ideas (hey, you got a monster, an Alien level kind of monster at that... who is sending mail? Ok or maybe delivering. How?) - there is still enough interest to want to know how this ends up. The monster is the unkillable sort (you just need a lot of explosive rounds, electricity... maybe?). I watched it and it entertained me, it was fun, but I would not call it a classic.