Terminus
1987, France
dir.
Pierre-William Glenn
cast: Karen Allen,
Jurgen Prochnow, Johnny Hallyday
A genetically
engineered child genius creates a race across a post-apocalyptic
Europe involving computer controlled trucks. His driver is captured
by a local militia and tortured to death, so a convict and a young
slave girl manage to hijack the truck and continue the race, evading
the militia and a psychopath driving another truck.
Bit of an oddity
this one. On one hand, the involvement of kids, the lack of explicit
violence and son on, gives it the tone of a kids film, but yet it has
some dark undercurrents. Jurgen Prochnow steals the show with a
triple shift as a clones of the same person- a doctor, a transgender scientist and the psycho with a lorryload of GM kids. Plenty of
chase sequences should keep action fans happy, with seemingly the
main reason for picking racing trucks is to show endless sequences of
them smashing through rickety buildings. Most notable for the
jive-talking onboard computer with a human mouth,which is way more
disturbing than was probably intended.
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