Eve of Destruction (1991)
Eve of Destruction (1991)
DVDRip | MKV | 720x556| x264 @ 1490 Kbps | 96 min | 1,15 Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English, French, Spanish, Dutch
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
DVDRip | MKV | 720x556| x264 @ 1490 Kbps | 96 min | 1,15 Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English, French, Spanish, Dutch
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Director: Duncan Gibbins
Writers: Duncan Gibbins, Yale Udoff
Stars: Gregory Hines, Renée Soutendijk, Michael Greene
Eve is a robot, modelled on "her" creator. Eve's armoury includes a nuclear bomb, which for unexplained reasons is on-board during Eve's testing. When things go wrong during the tests, Eve is lost in the big city. Enter the rescue team, which includes the real (human) Eve. They must find and disarm her before she goes "bang". Eve is programmed to protect herself at all costs, so when she runs into a problem, she resorts to her super strength; hence the destruction.
The premise of this film is how robots, complete with comprehensive copies of human minds and with immense strength, power and armament, may deal with the darker parts of their copied brain. Renée Soutendijk gets to play both the human creator, Dr Eve, and her robot copy named Eve VIII, and pretty juicy parts they are to play too, poles apart, and every good actors dream role. And a pretty good job she does too, never too overplayed, never too crude, just subtle.
When Eve VIII escapes and appears to go on to blood letting of extreme proportions we are treated to some insight into the darker parts of Dr Eve's mind, at first to titillate and then to hunt the errant robot down. And it is not badly done either. Okay some of the dialogue may be a little comical or flawed at times, but the underlying tale is always watchable and that is what films are supposed to be. Tension is ratcheted up nicely throughout, and the ending is almost as good as one would expect from this kind of B movie genre. It certainly puts to shame many much more hyped up pieces of the sci-fi genre around on the circuits these days.
Worth a watch and six out of ten.
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Eve of Destruction (1991)
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