ADRENALIN: FEAR THE RUSH Review On "Violent Maniac's Cage"

ADRENALIN: FEAR THE RUSH

ALSO KNOWN AS: Adrenalin.

(1995, USA)

DIRECTED BY: Albert Pyun.

STARRING: Christopher Lambert, Natasha Henstridge, Norbert Weisser, Elizabeth Barondes, Xavier Declie, Craig Davis, Nicholas Guest, Andrew Divoff, Jon H. Epstein, Miriam Zezulkova, Blanka Copikova, Martin Hindy, Jana Lonckova, Zdenka Gasparovicova, Maria Mickovicova.

Director Albert Pyun who has a reputation for making films in weeks directs this in the near future action film. Pyun can really pump out the films but to say that they're any good is a whole new topic. The only film he made that really struck me was a sci-fi action movie titled Nemesis with martial arts expert Oliver Grunner.

Adrenalin could have been an enjoyable film, what is severely lacking is a good plot or story line. The film is pretty shallow toward those aspects. The movie has cops played by Natasha Henstridge and Christopher Walken along with two other cops hunting a cannibal like killer infected with a deadly and highly contagious virus.

What makes the film so shallow is that the whole film is made up of the cops chasing the killer through a number of deserted buildings and thats it, nothing more, no more story line to it than that. The acting isn't too bad but Lambert never was that convincing, he doesn't do a bad job though, Henstridge could do a lot more with a better role because she can obviously act.

The film is 76 minutes long but was cut for US release from over 90 minutes due to un-needed filler. The 76 minutes it plays for drag and feel like 2 hours. One memorable scene has the killer shooting Lambert and another cop and each shot being zoomed in on by the camera as it comes in to and impact and hits. The film was shot in Romania which is kind of funny because the film is set in the U.S. and all the police cars read Policia on the side while most of the actors have french accents.

Rating: 3 Skulls

Review by: Richard J. Taylor

Email: rtaylor@roadrunner.nf.net

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