Originally posted in April 2010, this is a re-edited version that runs 2m 9s shorter than the original. The video has been upscaled to HD, had noise reduction to remove tape/camera noise, and the audio compressed to even it out. I've also made my usual edits to film clips and to tighten up the pacing, and I've also made some for content later in the review. This is still relatively early in my run, and I'm still finding my footing at this point (as you can certainly tell technically, this was still in my Windows Movie Maker days); the tone of some of the jokes is more because that was what was expected rather than because it was really my voice, as it were. With that in mind, this is still a fairly entertaining review of an outrageous action movie, so hope you enjoy it. I reposted this to coincide with Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again.
You can pretty much tell what’s going on in an actors life at a given time judging by the movies they’re in...Brosnan had just become a widower, had a young son but needed to make money...he did tons of garbage between when he lost his wife and when he got Bond...I’m sure this is a painful memory for him too.
Even sadder and shitter about the Remmington Steele situation was: Brosnan was literally on his way out the door to accept the Bond role when the Steele producers called him to tell him they were renewing the show for another season.
Y'know until I saw this review there was a way distant part of my memory that regretted not renting this from the local video rent in the late '90s when Brosnan was in his pomp. I'd like to thankyou. Brosnan, Cross and Eilbacher have all been great in other things and deserve better.
You know, it's kinda unintentionally funny whenever we see that, as the movie goes on, this water explosive thing starts doing to people what shooting did to someone in Videodrome.
I must have seen this film years ago, but I only realised when you showed the bit at the end with the guy getting impaled on the wall spikes. Funny the things that stick with you...
There is a type of heroic character called "The Lovable Arsehole", like John McClane from the first Die Hard, which is a flawed individual that has some noticeable character flaws but is still likable. The problem is that this type of character is tricky to write well, you need some talent and patience to write them, but usually when lazy writers try to use them in their scripts they fail and end up making them instead unlikable douchebags, Like John McClane from Die Hard 5.
Has anyone ever done an analysis of the many similarities between Live Wire and MGM's Blown Away done just 2 years later? I haven't seen all of Live Wire but there are some elements (bomb disposal expert looking up a woman's skirt, fighting w a smart robot, evil bomb-happy villain picking victims off one by one) that seem almost directly lifted.
They reuse story ideas in Hollywood all the time, sometimes studios completely stealing them from each other, just to save time and money. For Example the Michael Bay Produced "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" practically stole it's whole third act from "The Amazing Spiderman".
Hey Matthew, love your stuff🙂 Just checked out your Daily Motion page and it was great to see stuff I don't think I've seen on RU-vid, but my God what a truly infuriating amount of ads!
Re: the fountain scene; they explain elsewhere in the film that any acidic substance causes the explosive water to detonate, so presumably Tony Plana was trying to use the lemonade to set it off. Though exactly why he needed a big lemonade stand instead of just a little carton of orange juice he could have carried in his pocket is a different question, I suppose...
Quite how the water got in the fountain in the first place is also another bewildering question. Also, by that logic, does that mean if you have an alka seltzer you become immune to the toxin? (I wish I had made this joke all those moons ago.)
OK that Senator putting the money under the plaster board/drywall and on top of the insulation without wrapping it in protective plastic wrappings first is beyond idiotic. During this time US currency was mostly made from paper and unprotected that would cause all of the cash to rot from exposure to the chemicals found in the insulation and the plaster board/drywall. Which would mean that in a few months to a couple of years the money will at best discolour being easily recognisable becoming "marked" and at worse would or make the money start to or actually disintegrate both scenarios would make the cash worthless.
How is it that in movies like these, scientists and henchmen who decide to quite or demand to get paid, never see it coming that the bad guy is going to kill them?
@@FilmBrain I'm curious how the BBFC would treat the sequence if they were to watch the movie again these days. Keep in mind, Live Wire came out during the Ferman era of the BBFC.
I'd say it's more the opposite, without the scientist keeping the formula in check, the chemical compound starts breaking down, making it more unstable, hence the symptoms that appear later in the film
While I will admit this movie is ... subpar I do feel the need to point out something you seemed to have missed the explosive is activated by acid, the cart full of acidic lemon juice was meant to be dumped into the (no I don't know how they rigged it) fountain causing it to explode (most of the blast would be channeled upwards away from the crowd but hey) so as long as pierce's character didn't swallow the water getting a mouthful is ok???
How were you able to watch this film? Because from what I'm aware, it doesn't have a DVD release in the UK and the UK VHS version is the R-rated version with a couple of minor BBFC cuts. Not that I want to buy the film. I'm just curious.
@@FilmBrain Kinda figured. I was just kind of curious. Probably won't be seeking it anytime soon, although Piece Brosnan drunkenly saying "You only fuck senators now?" with his appalling American accent is well worth a chuckle.
No lie. This is probably one of the better bad movies on bad movie beatdown. So bad and crazy that it's good and I honestly like it for being ridiculous
Do we know that Aldred got the poisoned water from the fountain and didn't drink poison himself before running at Senator Tavarres? I might be willing to check this movie out except the increasingly gory effects of the poison sounds like a turn-off. You'd think people being turned into human bombs and incinerating anyone around them would be horrible enough.
If you were paying just a little bit of attention the fountain makes perfect sense. The acid in the lemonade would trigger the tainted water in the fountain. This is a great movie meant for fun, it's not pretending to be Citizen Kane. Too bad one of the few reviews of this movie on RU-vid is by a dude with a poster of Transformers on his door. I'm sorry but this movie is great. I guess it just doesn't have enough sparks and fake lens flares for you to be able to enjoy it.
If you looked around on my channel, you might see I've given the Transformers films the same treatment. That it was on my wall is more about how few posters I could collect at that moment.
