She’s now back in London and since there are no bad feelings between them and they apparently still love each other, they re-unite. Harley and Dick are ready to go monster-hunting.Īfter Harley’s partner was killed, he fell in love with his widow, Michelle, and they had a short affair until he left her. Some of you will be familiar with his movies, but for those of you who aren’t, I’ll give you a couple of examples: Nighthawks, The Osterman Weekend, Blind Furyand Blade Runner.
A loose cannon on the edge, would probably be a good way to describe him, and who better to portray him than one of my favorite actors… Rutger Hauer! I’ve mentioned him before, but I think that was way back when I did a piece on Wanted: Dead or Alive, so I thought it was time to bring him back into the spotlight again. These days he lives on a diet of anxiety, cigars, coffee (with lots of sugar) and chocolate, and doesn’t really sleep much.
And I suppose losing his partner/best friend to some kind of monstrous serial-killer a couple of years back, didn’t help much either. To say he’s a little bit “unhinged” would probably be a huge understatement. This is where we find Harley Stone, a cop who’s been stationed in some of the worst places around the world. And it’s wet! Very wet! There’s water more or less everywhere. It’s a bleak and dark future where even during the day it’s grey. We’re in London! It’s 2008! It’s the future… or at least it was back in 1992 when this was released.
The warnings ignored for decades have now resulted in undreamed-of levels of pollution where day has become almost endless night.” ”After forty days and nights of torrential rain, the city is largely submerged below water, a result of the devastating effects of continued global warming.
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