Hardware

1990 • 94 minutes

À propos de ce film

Moses "Hard Mo"' Baxter is a washed-up ex-soldier who spends most of his time in "The Zone" -- a scorched desert littered with the radioactive debris. Mo's recent Zone foray with war-buddy Shades turns up an interesting find -- a pile of droid parts he purchases from a spooky "Zone Tripper". Unbeknownst to them, the dismantled robot is the prototype of a controversial new battle-droid dubbed the Mark 13.

Notes et avis

The movie isn't perfect. It has next-to-no plot. The characters are hardly relatable, or interesting, to be honest. But all the same, it's a visual masterpiece despite, or perhaps BECAUSE, of its low budget. The gorgeous lighting almost evokes Dario Argento at his prime. The machine itself is a beautifully twisted piece of junk. It is to machines what John Carpenter's 'thing' was to aliens, a formless hodgepodge of different parts. There are scenes in this film so beautiful you'll swear you weren't watching some b-movie schlock but instead a Hollywood blockbuster. The music is also breathtaking. PiL (that's John Lydon's post Sex Pistols act) knocked it out of the park with their achingly beautiful synth track, and late 80s Ministry fits the mood of this film perfectly. And the rest of the score itself ain't half bad, though it's a bit repetitive. Let me be honest. If you're looking for a good story or characters, look elsewhere. But if you're looking for something different, and something easy on the eyes, you can do MUCH worse. This film has an early 90s cyberpunk aesthetic that you simply aren't going to see anymore. It is of its time, and exquisitely so. I recommend it.

Nihilistic, burned out future wasteland. Showcasing rusty colored junkyard imagery & populated with kool, eccentric characters; bitching and moaning in entertaining ways. Features an awesome industrial soundtrack with Ministry piston driving drums, Motorhead and "Leonard Cohen"esque style songs; all bookended by a howling radio DJ Angry Bob, voiced by Iggy Pop. Not for everyone, you kinda had to be there, back in the early 90s, to really truly appreciate this cyberpunk classick, def recommend👍

A personal favorite. Its shortcomings are obvious, limitations of both the decade and budget. However it has rich symbolism, excellent use of lighting, a believable atmosphere, terrific score and wonderful script. No doubt my estimation is to a high degree subjective, however I have watched a lot of movies, and am rather picky. The hallucination scene with Moe is of particular interest, and well as the parallel symbolism of the Yama the Hindu god of death, with his multiple arms, the spider she was basing her next art piece on, and the man-made spider looking death machine man made to kill man. Set in a believable dystopian post-apocalyptic atmosphere, the film is of the highest rank of for this cinephile.