Apatros Review Ep-0042: Ticker [2001]

AR-0042: While he had an awesome run in the early-to-mid 1990s with his trademark brand of kickass action synthetica [movies about robots, androids & cyborgs], towards the late 90s & upon the arrival of the 21st Century, legendary cult director Albert Pyun [BTW rest in peace, Mr. Pyun] started to have his career go into a dive, starting with this abomination in the editing suite, as Pyun's original version of a burnt-out detective who invents an imaginary bomb expert friend [played by Steven Seagal... yes, this is a Seagal movie] to help him stop a mad IRA bomber turning the city into a massive blast crater, gets transformed by whomever the editor was into a stupidly conventional action flick with Seagal's character getting turned into a real one & Dennis Hopper's scenes inserted in without him meeting anyone else in the cast. Hopper was mighty impressed by it, too!

As far as this version goes, it's a bad movie, although I would love to see Pyun's workprint if it ever sees the light of day...

Fans of 90s synthetica will be intrigued by the fact that the producers of this film [Nu Image] inserted stock footage from two of their own synthetica into this film - the footage came from "Project Shadowchaser 2: Night Siege" & "Cyborg Cop II". I grew up with those films so I noticed it straight away & I was laughing my head off.

My Grade: D [Bad]

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