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Overview

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Writer (WGA):

Eric Bernt (written by)

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Release Date:

15 April 1994 (USA) more

Tagline:

Jack Mason knows he's going to die someday. But today he's not in the mood. more

Plot:

Mason, who lives on the streets, wants to cease his life when on the same day his two best friends die:... more | add synopsis

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Five: Rutger Hauer Films Where He Is Not An Android
 (From LateFilmFull. 12 April 2009, 5:36 PM, PDT)

User Comments:

Good Movie, But Could Have Done Better more (43 total)


Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Ice-T ... Jack Mason

Rutger Hauer ... Thomas Burns

Charles S. Dutton ... Walter Cole (as Charles Dutton)

Gary Busey ... Doc Hawkins

F. Murray Abraham ... Wolfe Sr.

John C. McGinley ... John Griffin

William McNamara ... Derek Wolfe Jr
Jeff Corey ... Hank
Bob Minor ... Security Guard
Lawrence C. McCoy ... Hotel Clerk

George Fisher ... Taxi Driver
Jacqui Dickerson ... Taxi Passenger

Victor Morris ... Homeless Father
Frederic Collins Jr. ... Homeless Child
Steven King ... Mercedes Driver
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Additional Details

Runtime:

96 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Filming Locations:

Entiat, Washington, USA more


Fun Stuff

Goofs:

Continuity: When Rutger Hauer's character spots the cave Mason is hiding in, it is illuminated by orange light (as if a fire was lit inside). In the next scene, inside the cave, it is lit with the blue light from a flashlight. more

Quotes:

Doc Hawkins: [has the upper hand against Mason, in a life-or-death brawl right outside the hunting lodge, which is now on fire] ... I like my meat RARE!
Jack Mason: [suddenly tricks Hawkins and throws him into the lodge's trophy room, which is stocked with "flammables." A second later, the room explodes and the entire lodge follows suit] ... Try well-done, Bitch!
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Referenced in Kicking and Screaming (1995) more


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4 out of 5 people found the following comment useful.
Good Movie, But Could Have Done Better, 28 January 2004
7/10
Author: Doramius from Las Vegas, NV

This was New Line Cinema's 1994 response to Universal Picture's 'Hard Target'(1993). Though the character development and plot played out much better and the movie reviews prove this is the better movie to watch, it is no doubt that it is very close in story line to the Van Damme film.

A Seattle strung out alley man, down on his last stroke of will is given an opportunity to bring his life around in finance and come out on top for once. The catch is he is to be in the company of a group of poachers on a trip away from the mainland. The Seattle man agrees and is greeted with mostly open arms at a private cabin somewhere in the open Pacific wilderness. He finds out the next day he's to run for his life or end up as a formaldehyde trophy head.

The action is quite intense and brings into play thoughts of what a person might try to do if they were put into the same position.

Using an excellent cast and a decent story development this movie is definitely one worth renting a few times or even adding to your video collection.

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