Directed by: Rick Jacobson
Starring: C. Thomas Howell, Stacey Travis, Jed Allan
This movie is really stupid, but it has one of my favorite stupid sci-fi ideas in it ever. You see, the main character has been genetically engineered to be half-human, half-NUCLEAR BOMB. They used bomb DNA, I guess. Love it.
Anyway, that’s just the big reveal at the end. For the first half of the movie, our main character thinks he’s a normal guy who none of his friends apparently know anymore, and also he’s being hunted down by the government. It turns out he’s this half-bomb guy who had false memories implanted, and then… the movie kinda gives up and has him as a full-on robot (complete with heads-up display, which I guess he never noticed before) fighting off these other robot bomb guys.
Seriously, the second half of the movie is almost totally different in every way. As soon as he finds out he’s half-bomb (tee hee) he gets all badass robot on us, out of fucking NOWHERE. As if the half-man half-bomb thing wasn’t stupid enough…
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