Absolon (2003)

Director:

David Barto

Writer:

Brad Mirman (written by)

Genre:

Sci-Fi | Action | Thriller

Tagline:

Fight for the cure... Or face extermination!

Plot:

In a world ravaged by disease, he's the only cure... and the last hope for human-kind.

Plot Keywords:

Nose Bleed | Desert Eagle | Babe Scientist | Cellular Phone | Electrocution

Cast

Christopher Lambert	...	Norman Scott
Lou Diamond Phillips	...	Walters
Kelly Brook	...	Claire
Ron Perlman	...	Murchison
Roberta Angelica	...	Ruth
Neville Edwards	...	Jackson
Tre Smith	...	Vasquez
James Kidnie	...	Doc
Topaz Hasfal-Schou	...	Davis (as Topaz Hasfal)
Donald Burda	...	Greer
Graham Kartna	...	Young David
Adam Bramble	...	Old David
Sarah Plommer	...	WJD Tech
Neil Foster	...	Dr. Reyna
Vanessa Winton	...	Sara

MPAA:

Rated R for violence.

Runtime:

Brazil:96 min

Country:

Canada | UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Denmark:15 | Canada:14A | Germany:16 | Iceland:16 | Norway:15 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

London, England, UK

Company:

GFT Entertainment

Trivia:

David Barto's first studio film.

Goofs:

Continuity: Near the end of the movie, when Scot and Walters fight, there is a short sequence of Scot without his jacket before he actually takes it off.

Quotes:

Murchison: [speaking to Walters] I send you out to do a simple thing. A simple thing, by definition, should not be difficult to accomplish. You, have taken that thing and allowed it to become a complex thing.

Movie Connections:

References Misión en Marbella (2001)

Soundtrack:

Absolon Theme

The need for currency...

In the future, all money has been obliterated in exchange for a chronic medicine which treats (but doesn't cure) a universal plague that everyone suffers from. However when an actual cure for the plague is produced, the government wants to kill the scientist due to the shock it would have on the economy, Christopher Lambert, Lou Diamond Phillips and Ron Perlman are aboard to make this more watchable than it would be. Absolon is a straight to video movie (Obviously) which I watched on the Sci-Fi channel, for some reason I have an uncanny ability to seek out the STV movies independent from them and some how avoid their made for Sci-Fi movies, consider it luck I guess. However this being said Absolon is a competently made B.movie but it is also clichéd, unexciting and dreary. Lambert is actually not too shabby and there are moments when you suspect that the movie is going to open up and get really interesting but alas it never does. It always comes close to a boil but it loses steam due to an uninspired gunfight or something gratuitous to it's plot. Had Absolon concentrated on it's futuristic dwellings this would have been good, however because it lacks atmosphere the movie feels ordinary and by the numbers. Still fairly watchable in a low expectations kind of way.

* * out of 4-(Fair)