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List Price: $9.95 Our Price: $8.96 You Save: $0.99 Features • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • DTS Surround Sound • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 1996 DVD Release : 28 December, 2004 |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Rutger Hauer still blows me away |
| Doesn't matter how "good" or "bad" a film is: If Rutger Hauer is in it, he'll upstage everybody. He can't help it. That's the way he's always been and the way he'll always be. Many Rutger Hauer fans understand this about him, which is why we're not as hard on films like "Omega Doom" as some others might be, nor are we critical of Hauer for appearing in them. The man needs a paycheck. The man has to eat.
Rutger Hauer is one of the world's most unusual and most magnificent actors, yet the shocking truth is that for at least a decade he's been forced to wander the globe like a man without a country, ever in search of a role that's worthy of him. He's way too classy for the usual Hollywood "star vehicle" and way too full-blooded for most U.S. independent films. Even Europe doesn't know quite what to do with him, as "Omega Doom" (filmed in Bratislava, Slovakia, on a 20-dollar budget) amply attests. Hauer's enormous magnetism, keenly intelligent sensuality, and unshakeable elegance have been his greatest liabilities as well as his greatest assets as an actor. When you're a powerfully masculine, one-of-a-kind screen presence in a world where film audiences prefer their male actors to be mindless head-bashing clones or AC/DC pretty boys, you're likely to find yourself banished to Bratislava making Grade B philosophical robot movies; there it is. I'm always careful to watch Rutger Hauer films because they're Rutger Hauer films, not because I expect them to be "good" films. I don't expect them to be "bad" films, either, although I'm happier for Rutger when his films are "good." Mainly, I'm happy for Rutger that he's working at all in any film anywhere. In "Omega Doom" he keeps his chin up and soldiers on, way too brainy and generous an actor for the scant material he's been given to work with, but work with it he does, and, as usual, manages to be as mesmerizing and as sexy as ever. All 3 stars I've given to "Omega Doom" belong entirely to Rutger Hauer, so if you're not a wild fan of his the way I am, you might want to consider skipping this one. Even wild fans of his might want to consider skipping "Omega Doom" and consoling themselves with watching "The Hitcher" again. Me, I wouldn't miss a Rutger Hauer film -- "good", "bad," or "unclassified" -- for all the tea in China. |
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