Jacob has reviewed 2 films tagged ‘rutger-hauer’ during 2021.

Blind Fury

1989

★★½ 1

Goofy fun, but also too goofy for its own good, as the erratic tone never quite finds a solid footing between modern pulp samurai homage and bouncy comedy. Still, Hauer redoing Zatoichi as a ‘Nam vet on a crusade of forgiveness and dismemberment is worth the price of ission, especially when Randall “Tex” Cobb is the heavy henchman he has to show down against. Shouts out to Terry “Terrance” O’Quinn, playing a sorta proto Walter White almost two decades before we even knew what that was.

Split Second

1992

★★★½ 1

"Satan is in deep shit!"

If someone were to ask what late night cable during the '90s looked liked, I would simply show them this movie. A perpetual motion machine, amped up on key bumps of stupidity, frequently thrilling, it charges forward with reckless abandon as its ugly, cheap man-in-suit creature rips out and eats the hearts of its victims in a flooded faux cyberpunk iteration of London that looks like it was realized for the cost of a plate…