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    It hasn't been released yet but I have heard that it has some groovy
    pics of Sylvester Stallones naked bod!!!!!!
    
    
    
    Jo.G 

    
    	It's been released over here.
    
    							GTI

    It is out here, and I liked it! A few too many cliches for my taste,
    but all in fun, and it IS funny! The only part that rubbed wrong was 
    the humor and serious seemed to clash at times, though most of the time
    they blended. All in all, I would probably see it again.
    
    MBH

    I was a good movie with some great two liners but the ending was a
    little to far fetched for me to swallow.
                             Jeff Peters

	I saw it last night, only about 15 people in the there (to be
	fair the whole place was quiet last night).  I'm very
	disapointed.  It is far from being an action flick, it's
	closer to looking like "Defending Your Life" than "Rambo".
	To tell you the truth I enjoyed arnie's "Last Action Hero"
	much more, at least that one was funny.....

    
    Standard shoot-em-up.  Some pretty funny moments stemming from the
    future's perception of the past.  Wesley Snipes looks weird blond.
    
    DFW

    There were enough plot holes in this one to drive a fleet of trucks
    through, but the dialog was snappy and the female lead (whose name
    completely escapes me - she was the woman who vanished from Keifer
    Sutherland in "The Vanishing") was wonderful.
    
    I have some questions after the FF
    
    
    	1) Where did they get all the bullets?????
    
    	2) How could Snipes shoot 500 times and never even nick Stallone?!?
    
    	3) Did the movie feel poorly edited to you?  It seemed to me like
    	   they sacrificed some continuity to get under two hours.
    
    	4) What happened to Jesse Ventura's role?  He was featured in the
    	   credits, and never even got to speak!!!
    
    	5) Where did they get the gas for the Olds 442?
    
    	6) Was the underground city completely unbelievable?
    
    Despite the above flaws, I was entertained.  But it could have been
    SO much better!!!
    
    6.5 out of 10
    
    NAZZ

    Where WAS Jesse Ventura, anyway?  I sure missed him and I never
    thought he'd be miss-able.
    
    It was far better than I expected, but I did note that for an action
    movie, the fight scenes were, well, boring.  Not that they didn't try
    -- all the requisite elements were there.  Maybe (as was said to me),
    I've become jaded.  
    
    The rest of the movie was pretty fun, though, despite some truly corny
    one-liner pattering from Wesley Snipes throughout the whole movie.  I
    think he wasn't given a script, just told to pop off with standard
    wise-ass, manic bad-guy sayings whenever he did anything.  And, as
    mentioned everywhere else, Denis Leary's lines were lifted pretty much
    from his routines.  Does anyone else think Mr. Leary looks a whole hell
    of a lot like Willem DaFoe????  
    
    **.5 out of ****
    
    kim

    I saw the movie the a couple of weeks ago, it was fun. You get the 
    impression that Wesley Snipes had fun making the movie. The so called
    intimate seen with Sly and female lead was different, reminds me of
    Star Trek.
    
     

.8> Does anyone else think Mr. Leary looks a whole hell
.8> of a lot like Willem DaFoe????  

	Yes!

.9> The so called intimate seen with Sly and female lead was different,
.9> reminds me of Star Trek.

	It reminded more like they stole it right out of Woody Allen's
	"Sleeper" .....

as I understood it from the preview snipes is of the future and proves to be
too much for the future cops to handle, so they bring sly -out of the cold- as 
being sufficiently violent to cope with snipes....

    I hadn't understood that to be the case from the preview, and in the
    movie it definitely wasn't so. Maybe we saw different previews....
    
    MBH

    plot summary spoiler
    

    Snipes in a gang boss form the late 1990's he controls all of southern
    LA. Sly is a renegade cop he captures Snipes but in the process he
    accidentally kills 40 people. Both are sentence to new cryto sleep
    center. It shows Sly being frozen. 
       Advance to the year 2120 a police woman checks with the warden. No
    problems. Snipes is up from parole today. He is defrosted and brought
    in. The parole hearing is a joke. Just before he is locked up he speaks
    the password to the restraints and escapes killing the warden and all
    the guards. An alarm goes off in the police station a code number
    flashes over the jail on a diagram of the city. The look up the code
    number in the computer murder/death/kill. They catch up with snipes
    quickly and attempt to talk him into surrendering. He doesn't he kills
    or beats up every officer. Then he escapes into the city in a police
    car.
      The police realize they can't handle things and one police officer, a
    student of history, remebers Sly is frozen too. They unfreeze Sly and he 
    trys to adapt to the future. HE fails. He finds out snipes was programmed
    in his sleep by the rulers of the future to instill terror in the
    people to enforce his perfect world. Snipes kills the rulers and goes
    to the jail to unfreeze more criminals to take over LA. Sly  
    finds out the people where dead before he went in to snipes last head
    quarters. He goes into the jail fights it out with Snipes  and kills 
    him.   
                          Jeff Peters          

    The previews I saw made it clear that Snipes was a bad guy from the
    past, who was caught by Stallone. They thaw Stallone out to see if he
    can catch him again.
    			Jim

    
    I went to see this on Friday night and all I can say is...
    
    		STALLONE IN GOOD FILM SHOCK!
    
    Yes, the story line was unbelievable. Yes, the plot had so many holes
    that it looked like a Swiss Cheese Plant. But, I've come to expect that
    from this style of film. The very idea of the film is impossible so I
    just sit back and let myself be entertained. And it was entertaining.
    Wesley Snipes was good as a the wise-cracking villain, and Stallone has
    proved that, like Arnie, his acting has improved over time. No Oscar's
    a-calling, but nowhere near as embarassing as the speech at the end of
    Rambo II.
    
    *** out of ****
    
    Graham.

    This film was obviously the victim of bad editing or film footage shot
    which couldn't be used for some reason. Some of the plot holes were due
    to bad editing, IMHO...

    
    It's on video, so of course I rented it and enjoyed it. Sort of a 
    Back to the Future mentality, and I am glad they made it funny.
    Great f/x, but the wimpy cops of the time were at bit to hard to
    take.
    
    Dave
    
    

    That too was the one thing that grated on my nerves...I kept thinking
    how impossible it would be for anyone with half a brain with criminal
    behavior NOT to come out on top....
    
    Michael