Matthias Hues is Talec, an alien looking for a fix…for his entire race!Īnd Dark Angel is one of those films that stayed with me. Needless to say, I slept little on those weekends it wasn’t on on the agenda when films like this were on the docket.
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Montalban, jokey family that we are) was that he loved action, kung fu, and martial arts films–and he and my aunt were prolific video store patrons, so those weekends when I stayed over at their place was always a treat because I knew we’d be laid out in front of the TV on beanbags, popcorn in hand (the ice cream came later), watching the best exploitation the video store had to offer. One of the fun things about staying over at my Uncle Ricardo’s (his name is Rick, but dad nicknamed him Ricardo after the great Mr. I saw Dark Angel in 1991 via VHS rental (under its US title, I Come in Peace) at my aunt and uncle’s when I was 15. When Azeck is injured and ultimately dies, Caine and Smith are Earth’s last hope to stop Talec from returning to his home planet, surely signaling the end to our planet as we know it!
Hot on his tail is good-guy alien Azeck (played by ESPN college basketball analyst Jay Bilas), who passes these details on to Det. Brian Benben as Special Agent Smith.ĭoes this sound wild enough for you yet? No? Good, because the enemy turns out to be a super-powered, super-tall, white-eyed extraterrestrial from another planet named Talec (German martial artist Matthias Hues, Kickboxer 2: The Road Back, No Retreat, No Surrender 2) and he’s the world’s biggest junkie his mission is to find and extract heroin from the bodies of those he kills to transport back to his home planet as proof that Earth is the place to get it, which will result in his bringing an army of these aliens to conquer the planet. Caine and discovers the unique murder weapon at the crime scene: a CD–yes, a killer compact disc–with wild magnetic properties that propel it through the room, destroying anything in its path (only a stereo speaker can stop it due to the speaker’s magnetic properties). Explosions abound in Dark Angel.Įnter Special Agent Arwood “Larry” Smith (Brian Benben, TV‘s Dream On, Private Practice), who teams up with Det. Caine exits a station wagon to leap into action. But you can’t keep a good cop down, especially one weaned on 80s action tropes…so he’s allowed to stay on the case. Caine’s superior, Captain Malone (Jim Haynie), tells Caine he’s off the case, and Diane isn’t happy with him either he’s erratic, he disappears fore 8 days at a time (not a week– 8 days!), and people all around him are dying. Caine is dating Diane (Jack and Diane…get it?), so he gets the scoop. An alien’s weapon of choice in 1990? The compact disc, of course.Īccording to coroner Diane Pallone (Betsy Brantley, The Princess Bride, Who Framed Roger Rabbit) the dead White Boys were murdered by nefarious means, with puncture wounds to their foreheads. Jack Caine (Dolph Lundgren) joins his ’80s peers in being dressed down by his superior. Caine, momentarily pulled away by a nearby store robbery, returns to the scene to find not only his partner dead, but members of the White Boys as well. Houston police Detective Jack Caine ( Dolph Lundgren, Rocky IV, Masters of the Universe) is in the midst of an 80s-typical feud with the White Boys, a gang of white collar heroin traffickers he’s working undercover to infiltrate when his partner (Alex Morris) is found out and killed. Your purchase helps pay the bills at this website!
But a few years later, the good folks at Shout! Factory’s Scream Factory sub-label gave us the definitive version–a Blu-ray edition featuring new interviews with Lundgren, Benben and Baxley! Baxley and produced by Vision International.Īfter years of despair, it was finally released to DVD by the MGM Classics Collection in 2011 on a manufactured-on-demand “burned” disc. I hit the brakes when I happen upon one of my all time favorite VHS rentals from my youth, 1990’s Dark Angel (aka I Come in Peace), the sci-fi buddy-cop romp starring Dolph Lundgren, Brian Benben, Betsy Brantley, Matthias Hues, Jay Bilas, and David Ackroyd, and directed by Craig R. Boarding my private bullet-tram deep into my oceanic West Coast vault housing my top-secret Blu-ray collection for the safety of collectors everywhere, I’m looking for something to watch that’s holiday-appropriate, but not too family-friendly. It’s fall, and that means the holiday season is upon us.
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