At a time when films like The Matrix, and Equilibrium where making waves, a host of sci-fi action movies, set in the near-future, were a dime-a-dozen. This time, Hungarian director Tibor Takacs, the same man behind cult horror flick The Gate, as well as episodes on The Outer Limits, Police Academy The Series, Sabrina The Teenage Witch and much more, manages to get the great, late Rutger Hauer (complete with trademark trench-coat) and martial arts star, the handsome Mark Dacascos, to star as smugglers in a dystopian future Russia full of brain-washing, corruption and dictatorship - hmmmm...
Its not dreadful, and I only bought it to see Dacascos in action expecting some great martial arts, but Armageddon is quite forgettable and very slow paced. The team-up of Mark and Tibor a couple of years earlier with Sabotage, was a little more exciting, but this does have some nice moments and futuristic ideas, along with a lot of flesh, and some okay action scenes - but its hardly amazing.
Also known as Deathline, and Redline, Armageddon is like a late 90's TV movie with a god-awful script, cheesy acting, bad accents and ridiculous shoot-outs. Rutger looks like he's having fun though, getting to shag Yvonne Scio and getting attacked by naked women left, right and centre. As I've said before, Mark is too sweet and soft spoken to play a bad guy, although isn't terrible - and any film to see him half-naked is a plus. Its hard to think that the year between this and Sabotage, Dacascos wowed the world with his moves in Steve Wang's amazing film, Drive. You would think anything after that, directors would want to see more of that..?!
I must note, the re-enactment newsflash of Hauer as a killer is hilarious my favourite part!
Overall: Die-hard fans of Hauer and Dacacscos might get a kick out of it, but otherwise, nothing new here...
Its not dreadful, and I only bought it to see Dacascos in action expecting some great martial arts, but Armageddon is quite forgettable and very slow paced. The team-up of Mark and Tibor a couple of years earlier with Sabotage, was a little more exciting, but this does have some nice moments and futuristic ideas, along with a lot of flesh, and some okay action scenes - but its hardly amazing.
Also known as Deathline, and Redline, Armageddon is like a late 90's TV movie with a god-awful script, cheesy acting, bad accents and ridiculous shoot-outs. Rutger looks like he's having fun though, getting to shag Yvonne Scio and getting attacked by naked women left, right and centre. As I've said before, Mark is too sweet and soft spoken to play a bad guy, although isn't terrible - and any film to see him half-naked is a plus. Its hard to think that the year between this and Sabotage, Dacascos wowed the world with his moves in Steve Wang's amazing film, Drive. You would think anything after that, directors would want to see more of that..?!
I must note, the re-enactment newsflash of Hauer as a killer is hilarious my favourite part!
Overall: Die-hard fans of Hauer and Dacacscos might get a kick out of it, but otherwise, nothing new here...