Why so much hype?

Excellent but underrated film

Best movie of this year hands down!

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Wade (Rutger Hauer) is an American smuggler of biotechnology, during a Russian job, he's quickly disposed of by Merrick (Mark Dacascos). But this being the future, Wade is brought back to life via a clandestine soviet experimentation and goes about gaining vengeance on the people that offed both him and his girlfriend.Make no bones about it, this film is highly forgettable, but for the time that it's on it's entertaining enough. A highly simplistic, derivative story for sure, however for fans of excessive cartoon violence and gratuitous nudity that doesn't advance the plot in the least bit you'll be entertained.Eye Candy: Anita Neszmenyi; Ildikó Szücs, and numerous extras also appear topless; Szilvia Bizek & Yvonne Sciò show everything My Grade: C- DVD Extras: Picture gallery; trailer for this film; and Trailers for "On the Border", "October 22", & "the Peacekeeper"

This has got to be the WORST Rutger Hauer movie EVER made. I have got to think that his agent is such an a**hole that Mr. Hauer needs to make some changes. Look at his filmography!!! Although many of his films really sucked, there were MANY that were fantastic. "Blade Runner" was one of his best, but I refuse to go into all the rest of his movies. Go look at his filmography. This movie is one of the worst "C" grade movies I have ever seen. The plot didn't work, the flow really sucked big time, I found myself fast-forwarding through MOST of the stupid dialog, which, upon looking at afterward, I was correct at, and the director, the producer, and anyone else who had anything to do with this movie, need to find new agents.

After watching the film I can't say I was impressed, I was not surprised to see in the film nude assassins and plastic looking BB guns. Odd styles of dressing mostly leather and plastic looking glasses.The locations were bizarre with some futuristic elements with a lot of old fashioned items like furniture and it appeared the actors only had 2 sets of clothes. I must also mention, I think they only used a total of 6 locations (I could be wrong but I could have sworn the same location was used other with some slight furniture rearrangements)The overall story was rubbish, after bringing in military style weapons and being back stabbed it was a mess of I WANT MY MONEY BACK, the end was just stupid.

This movie has two pluses in its favor. First, Rutger Hauer looks great. Second, the sets and art direction are very interesting. The movie has a strange blend of Old World buildings, futuristic props and 1940's style furniture. Other movies (yes, most notably Blade Runner) have used a similar look more successfully, but the total effect was still compelling. I did get the impression, however, that they used the same building over and over and just changed the furniture when it was supposed to be a different location.Unfortunately, the filmmakers appear to have spent so much money on the set that they had no funds for other essential movie elements such as a script that made sense, costumes for the actresses and an acting coach. I found the plot utterly incomprehensible. I have no idea why any character in the movie did any of the things he/she did. I have no idea what the ending was supposed to mean.Equally baffling was the fact that the women in the movie wore no clothes. The film is set in Moscow; you'd think they would get cold. Okay, I can understand that prostitutes in brothels are not going to fully clad, but come on--topless women boxers? nude women assassins?Finally, with the exception of Hauer (who really has given some great performances in his career), no one in this movie can act. NO ONE!! Robbie the Robot gave better line readings.In short, if you're looking for a movie filled with meaningless violence and even more meaningless sex, you'll love this one.