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SPLIT SECOND 1992 (Rutger Hauer, Tasty Tim the Transvestite)

post #1 of 25
2/22/10 at 2:07am
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In the year 2008, extensive rainfall has caused large areas of London to be under a foot or more of water. Rookie police officer Dick Durkin (Duncan) is assigned to partner Harley Stone (Hauer), a burnt-out and highly cynical homicide detective who, according to his commanding officer, survives on "Anxiety, coffee and chocolate" after being unable to prevent the murder of his partner by a serial killer several years previously. Now however, the murders have begun again and Stone and Durkin are assigned the case. After investigating the scenes of several killings, they appear no closer to identifying the killer, with their only clues being that the murders seem to be linked to the lunar cycle, and that the killer has multiple recombinant DNA strands, having absorbed the DNA of seemingly anything he kills.
8/10 I really liked it! Rutger Hauer is fun to watch as rogue cop "HARLEY STONE". I wish he could have kept up his crazy and wild ways the whole time, it makes for a wild opening for the movie. He is walking around a bar, screaming like a gorilla and he calls a dog a "dickhead". But it seems like he's only crazy for the first 20 minutes or so. I guess the time spent with his new by-the-book partner DICK DERKIN calmed him down! It is a light & breezy flick, very easygoing! Hauer and his bud have good chemistry and the futuristic and flooded Blade Runner world is pretty believable for the 20 dollar budget. Also has the classic buddy cop ending (I Come in Peace) where after the bad guy is dead, its the two buddy cops and the girl walking away happy and that's the end of the movie. I like when a movie wraps up quick! Don't waste my time!

also co-starring "TASTY TIM" as a transvestite!

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post #2 of 25
2/22/10 at 2:12am
I actually just watched this recently. I love how Kim Cattrall's hair hadn't completely grown back yet after having recently starred in "Star Trek VI." And she takes a shower.

I'm disappointed that Hauer didn't mention this flick once in his book, "All Those Moments." I imagine with all the rain and flooded streets, it must've been a bitch of a shoot.
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post #3 of 25
2/22/10 at 2:33am
An old time favourite of mine. This, I COME IN PEACE and DEATH MACHINE were some of my Sci-Fi B-favourites when I was young.
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post #4 of 25
2/22/10 at 2:42am
Dog gets better billing than Tasty Tim.

Havoc's agent must have been really something.
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post #5 of 25
2/22/10 at 2:42am
Hauer makes the film. Nice setup and some good gore. The film needed to show more of the creature and have another action setpiece. All that being said all in all a good little flick.
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post #6 of 25
2/22/10 at 9:30am
I used to love this. Haven't seen it in 15 years probably, but yeah, a decent enough if predictable sci-fi actioner.
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post #7 of 25
2/22/10 at 9:33am
Saw it years ago but I have some fond memories. Wasn't the killer some kind of (spoiler) of rat mutant thing?
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post #8 of 25
2/22/10 at 1:05pm
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Originally Posted by Ken Savage View Post
Saw it years ago but I have some fond memories. Wasn't the killer some kind of (spoiler) of rat mutant thing?
No, it was a Giger/Alien-looking thing, but terrestrial, I think from the ocean or somesuch shit. I recall liking this movie a lot when I was a kid, but I haven't seen it in just as long so I've no clue if I'd still get anything out of it.
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post #9 of 25
2/22/10 at 1:13pm
I remember it looking like Venom.
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post #10 of 25
2/22/10 at 1:36pm
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I thought the monster was SATAN himself! As evidenced by the occult symbols it leaves everywhere and when Rutger says "Satan's in DEEP SHIT!" Rutiger would not lie! I think the monster looked like a cross between Venom and an Alien from...Alien but I'm not sure. You never get to really see its whole body because it would probably look like shit. When Rutger rips out the monsters heart you get a big screen-filling closeup of its unmoving face. What detail!

Keep an eye out for the owner of the bar in Split Second! He played the owner of Geiger's Bazaar in Judge Dredd!!@

Also I am pretty sure those dinky looking miniguns Stone and Dick Derkin carry around at the end are just Super Soakers spraypainted black. They aren't even real guns, when the characters fire them they just shake the guns around in their hands while sparklers shoot out!
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post #11 of 25
2/22/10 at 1:59pm
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Originally Posted by Hans Gruber's EYE CONDITION! View Post
I thought the monster was SATAN himself! As evidenced by the occult symbols it leaves everywhere and when Rutger says "Satan's in DEEP SHIT!"
And didn't it take place after raining for a biblical forty days?
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post #12 of 25
2/22/10 at 2:20pm
Did you get a big kick out of the partner's repeated mantra of them needing big fucking guns?

And what about the running gag involving the fact he screws his girlfriend on a nightly basis?

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This is a movie I saw years ago on VHS with a friend. The bootleg video store had the movie and we rented it thinking it was The Hitcher. Because the fake cover actually used an image of The Hitcher and the title was something like Persecución Infernal (which translates as Infernal Pursuit - a title that could very much fit The Hitcher.)

We took it home and were instantly disappointed to find that it wasn't The Hitcher. But the disappointment gave way quickly to us being pleasantly surprised at having discovered a decent B Action/Sci-Fi picture. We enjoyed it thoroughly and what stayed with me are those two things I mentioned.

Haven't seen it again since. I should probably revisit it.
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post #13 of 25
2/22/10 at 11:36pm
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Originally Posted by felix View Post
An old time favourite of mine.
Yup. Remember first catching this on HBO along with FULL ECLIPSE. Loved them both at first sight.
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post #14 of 25
2/22/10 at 11:50pm
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Yup. Remember first catching this on HBO along with FULL ECLIPSE. Loved them both at first sight.
I really don't remember either title, but I've been itching to see FULL ECLIPSE again. Back when it was in heavy rotation, I never missed it.

Split Second was a let down to me at the time, but I'd jump at the chance to see it again. Eighteen years is a long time in B movie terms.
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post #15 of 25
2/23/10 at 3:15am
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An old time favourite of mine. This, I COME IN PEACE and DEATH MACHINE were some of my Sci-Fi B-favourites when I was young.
And Hardware.

I should check this one out too. I vaguely remember HBO advertising the premiere, probably a Thursday night airing.
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post #16 of 25
2/23/10 at 3:36am
Don't ask me why I own this on DVD. Don't ask me why I drag it out every eight months or so. Don't ask why I keep hoping this time it'll make sense or even just be less tacky.

It's a terrible movie. Just terrible. Even by '90s-era Rutger Hauer standards. And yet I cannot turn away.
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post #17 of 25
2/23/10 at 5:25am
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And Hardware.

I should check this one out too. I vaguely remember HBO advertising the premiere, probably a Thursday night airing.
Split Second actually had a theatrical release. That doesn't preclude HBO from advertising it, but it definitely had a run in theaters.

Oddly enough, I can remember radio ads for this movie. Yes, kids, there was a time when movies were advertised on the radio machine.
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post #18 of 25
2/24/10 at 2:30am
"Do you really get laid every night?"

The monster (or atleast his mug) also kinda reminded me of the dude from FORBIDDEN WORLD (AKA MUTANT)...



All I saw was this... HUGE... F**KING... THING!

The year of THE RAT!!!

And just because...

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post #19 of 25
2/25/10 at 1:10am
Would love to find a decent release of this movie on DVD. Seems like a really fun/cheesy good time. Might have to import the German R2.
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post #20 of 25
2/27/10 at 6:22pm
Rutger was good as the ULTIMATE SLOB. Nothing but cigarettes, coffee and bags of chocolate for a cop who's "the best there is". Just don't ask him to run up any stairs! He probably died of heart failure shortly after ripping that dna rat monster's heart out.

I thought DICK DURKIN was the heart of the movie, though. He's one of those action movie "college boys", but he's not a stiff! Clearly he looks up to Harley Stone. I liked his "bigger guns" transformation at the end.

*Rutger calms him down by stroking his hair*
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post #21 of 25
2/27/10 at 9:37pm
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Welcome to the Split Second fanclub "wadew1"! I think for weaselly college boy sidekicks in action movies, here are my top 3 from most favorite to least.

1. Larry Smith (Brian Benben, I Come In Peace)
2. DICK DURKIN (actor, Split Second)
3. Lance (Sam MacMurray, Stone Cold)
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post #22 of 25
2/27/10 at 10:02pm
You could see the pride in Rutger's eyes when "actor" started flinging half full cups of coffee over his shoulder and shoving chocolate into his mouth like a starving hobo!
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post #23 of 25
2/28/10 at 3:17am
Went ahead and ordered the German release of Split Second. Hope it gets here soon.
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post #24 of 25
2/28/10 at 4:13am
Split Second's trash, but a good trashy movie in that it's truly entertaining instead of medicore, boring or disgust-inducing.
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post #25 of 25
3/2/10 at 5:34am
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Originally Posted by Hans Gruber's EYE CONDITION! View Post
he calls a dog a "dickhead".
On more than one occasion I might add. The tone/s in this flick is/are great.

No shout-outs for the rat-catcher played by the rodent-ish Michael J. Pollard?
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