Leviathan (1989) Review
Leviathan (1989) rates 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. An underwater Alien with a good cast and a wrecked Soviet ship. One of three deep-sea monster films released in 1989, and the middle one.
Peter Weller played RoboCop, and the performance is remarkable given that his face is visible for only a few minutes: everything else is conveyed through jaw movement and the way he holds his weight in a suit that took hours to enter.
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai gave him a cult lead. He holds a doctorate in Italian Renaissance art history from UCLA, has taught at Syracuse, and has directed extensively for television.
Amanda PaysLeviathan (1989) rates 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. An underwater Alien with a good cast and a wrecked Soviet ship. One of three deep-sea monster films released in 1989, and the middle one.
Christopher LloydBuckaroo Banzai is one of the strangest films Twentieth Century Fox released in the 1980s and one of the most beloved cult artifacts of that decade. Peter Weller plays Buckaroo Banzai, a neurosurgeon, particle physicist, samurai, race car driver, and…
Kurtwood SmithRoboCop is the satirical action franchise that established the cybernetic-cop subgenre and one of the most accomplished critiques of late-1980s corporate. Paul Verhoeven directed the 1987 original.
Kurtwood SmithRoboCop is a better film than its premise suggests and a more subversive one than its marketing implied. Paul Verhoeven made a corporate satire inside a violent action film, and the two registers enhance each other instead of competing.
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