Funny...one of my fave films and forgot all about it.
Ok...here is the summary.
MARK 13 is the ultimate soldier, a high-tech fusion of spider and samurai warrior, designed to tip the balance on the battlefields of the next American civil war. The closest thing to artificial intelligence that money can buy, heat-resistant, bullet-proof, self-repairing, working on its own initiative its eyes can pierce pitch blackness and its drills can cut through solid metal. It moves faster and more quiet than a thought, its hyperdermic fangs drip with a mind-warping toxin worse than nerve gas. It can kill you in the space of a breath and even make you enjoy it.
When a goverment test goes wrong one of the MARK 13 prototypes is seriously damaged and its component parts find there way into the hands of? of the scrapmetal dealers that make their living from the war. Ultimatly they become the property of one Moses Baxter (Hard Mo to his friends), a consumate hustler, black marketeer and sometime soldier of fortune.
Moses, sick with radiation poisoning, is heading for home, crossing a landscape laid waste by war, famine and enviromental collapse, to see his girlfriend Jill one last time. The MARK 13 travels with him biding its time before re-awakening.
For Jill, Mo's old flame, the war is coming home.
When this film was released in 1990 it was dubbed as "a Terminator for the 90's", unfortunatly it was not very well recieved by the public and very quickly dissapeared into video history.
This is an interesting film dealing with a post apocolyptic future and the fiolm itself is unsure if it wants to be SciFi, horror or something else.
Directed by Richard Stanley (Rites of Passage, The White Darkness) and starring Dylan McDermott (Hamburger Hill, Steel Magnolias, In the Line of Fire & The Practice) John Lynch (In The Name of the Father, Sliding Doors & Evelyn) along with Stacey Travis (Dracula Rising, Ghost World & The Reaper) this is a mix of shlock horor and? SciFi. With a great industrial/classical soundtrack from Simon Boswell (Shallow Grave, The River King) this in my opinion is a must see film, if only for its beautiful photography, lighting and downright oddness.
Long since deleted on video I am unsure at the moment of whether it has been released on DVD or if indeed it ever will be.
Anyone still not convinced then I saved the best till last for you all. Check it out if for no other reason to listen to the resident DJ of the film...voiced by the legendary Iggy Pop.
