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Movie Reviews of Trancers
Movie Review: The names Deth and I'm a Trancer Hunter
Summary: 4 Stars
In the mid 80's many low budget companies popped up that were sponcered by major companies. These were excuses to produce a huge load of garbage to earn some extra revenue. One of the companies, and at the time one of the best, was Full Moon Entertainment. They specialized in the Horror and Sci-Fi genere. One of their all time greats was Trancers, which has since become a worthy cult classic.The movie stars Tim Thomerson (WHo was also in Air America, Near Dark, Dollman) as Jack Deth, a Trancer hunter in the year 2285. Trancers are basically these Zombie like beings made by a psychic maniac known as Whistler. Whistler has gone down back in time to eliminate the Council members ancestors. The council is basically the rulers of the world.
This movie also stars Helen Hunt as Jack Deths love intrest when he goes back to stop whistler, in the year 1985. THis also stars Art LeFleur and Telma Hopkins.
The plot may sound cheesy but for the msot part it works out just fine. This even stands against a lot of the stuff produced today. This is one of the few low budget direct to video films that is truely great. For the best part on DVD the theme music is played on the menu which is great in itself.
A must own for any one who likes a good sci-fi film.
Movie Review: DEFINITE GUILTY PLEASURE
Summary: 4 Stars
TRANCERS holds up as a low-budget guilty pleasure even 14 years after it was first released. Tim Thomerson gives a dopey tough-guy-heroic performance and manages to slyly parody noir tough guys at the same time. Helen Hunt is sexy and droll and, even at a young age, provides glimpses of the accomplished Academy-Award-winning actress she would become. Her emotional range and flair for comedy help elevate TRANCERS above the 100 other TERMINATOR type movies that came out in the '80s.The screenplay by Paul De Meo and Danny Bilson is really the best thing here. It mixes humor and sci-fi action and manages a few fresh touches, which given the time-travel plot is truly impressive. Veteran schlockmeister Charles Band somehow generates visual atmosphere despite the $1.98 budget.
If you like dashes of smart humor, check it out. In terms of its cheesier moments, my favorite is the unintentional "flying car" effect ... Thomerson and Hunt being towed in a tiny convertible for a routine driving sequence on a camera-trailer so high off the road they look like they're levitating (while a two-handed Thomerson ludicrously swings the steering wheel side to side as if he's riding the bumper cars!).
Overall, inventive in an enjoyably dumb way.
Movie Review: JACK DETH RULES!
Summary: 4 Stars
I came across this movie years ago when I was into a "B" movie rental frenzy. This is a really fun movie as long as you go into it expecting a "B" movie. Just don't take everything so seriously and enjoy the cool characters. Jack Deth (Tim Thomerson) is a trooper/cop in the future, after the big earth quake that distroyed Los Angeles. His task is to eliminate the trancers, mindless zombies controlled by an evil character. Jack Deth dispatches the trancers with Dirty Harry like accuracy. Sent back into the the mid 80's to chase our evil villain, Jack Deth finds himself in a relationship with the very young and beautiful Helen Hunt. Their is one spot in the movie that really caught me off gaurd, I wasn't expecting a moment of really fine acting. There is a scene where Tim Thomerson tells Helen Hunt that he doesn't want her to come with him cause he doesn't want her to get hurt, and she replies "You love me" and he say's, "That's what I just said wasn't it?" Well, maybe it's just me but, I thought it was a really good scene.
I recommend this film for anyone who enjoys light hearted movies. Take a leave of your senses, you need a break from reality. After all, where else can you find such cool lines like, "Dry hair is for squides".
Movie Review: Highly underrated
Summary: 4 Stars
I remember seeing Trancers on cable back in the mid-eighties. This film, although a very cheap B-movie, has got so much style that you can't help but love it. Obviously, the movie "borrows" much of its style and visuals from Blade Runner as well as the characterization of the protagonist, Jack Deth, but even so, Tim Thomerson's performance, a brilliant soundtrack, and a VERY original plot and story line combine to make Trancers a cult classic. The sequels never quite measured up to the original (which is usually the case), so the first film alone is worthy of any DVD collection. Aside from occasional foul language and "suggestive" sex scenes (no nudity), the older kids might be able to enjoy this one with mom or dad who probably remember seeing this one back when they were teenagers.
Bottom line: if you like action films, you gotta see this one. If you like sci-fi films: you gotta see this one. If you like Tim Thomerson, you gotta see this film.
What are you waiting for?
Movie Review: Campy
Summary: 4 Stars
Don't ask how one becomes a "Trancer", or what physical changes occur to "Trancers" bodies that make them fade out like a vampire when killed, just enjoy the ride. "Trancers" the first (and to me the only one worth seeing out of the series) has Helen Hunt as the romantic interest and Tim Thomerson as "Jack Deth"-a future born time traveler who has been mentally inserted into a past relations body following the evil "Whistler's" similar jump into a previous ancestor. Not much makes sense, but it rises above terrible to the kind of campy that makes it worth seeing.