tilmonhocutt It starts saying its set in 2008 and Global Warming has flooded London. Well needless to say one more movie where the global warming cult got it wrong. The movie has a certain charm especially if you like shoot em up movies. Just remember to get a bigger f**king gun when you go hunting the almost indestructible mutant monster.

Robert J. Maxwell Rutger Hauer is a police detective in London, a few years in the future, when global warming has flooded much of the city. Hauer wears dark spectacles, keeps a cigar in his mouth, wears a long black overcoat with a turned-up collar, and strides down alleys with the wet pavement reflecting the neon lights advertising debaucheries of various kinds. Well, if Arnold Schwarzenegger could do it, why not Rutger Hauer? Hauer is probably a better actor than Schwarzenegger, although I respect Arnold enormously. He was my supporting player in "Raw Deal" in the first violent scene in which he and two other human mammoths knocked me on my rear. It was strictly in accordance with the script because in real life I could easily have decked him. Only the fact that I was wearing a black T shirt with "Walker Museum, Minneapolis" stenciled on the back must have given him enough faux courage to bump against me so viciously. Probably thought I was some kind of egg head freak with one foot in fairydom, sitting on floors and talking about intellectuals like Deepak Chopra. He'd have had another think coming if I hadn't been hobbled by the role of cowardly gambler.Where was I? It was a horrifying smash against that Boulder Dam with legs and when I hit the poker table I think there was some brain damage. Yes, the movie. Thank you. Hauer is on the usual revenge kick because his former partner was murdered, and now his new one has been butchered. He carries a long-barreled revolver with a scope and an abundance of other blocky attachments. Of him, his colleagues say, "Now he lives on anxiety, coffee, and chocolate." It's quickly established that Hauer is a loose cannon who dislikes rules and, in fact, doesn't obey them. But he's experienced and he's "the best." Of course he's assigned an assistant, Dick Durken, a novice Oxford graduate, whom Hauer mistreats at every opportunity. As Dirty Harry said to HIS first novice assistant, "Don't let your college degree get you killed." Not to worry about any political implications of global warming. It's just an excuse for wet streets and rubber boots, which help to distinguish it from other undistinguished action movies. That when the serial killer is nearby you can hear a loud heart thumping on the screen and hoarse breathing, is almost a requirement in a dumb movie like this. Half-way through it turns from an ordinary action flick into "Predator" and loses its wits completely.

ctomvelu1 Good God Almighty. The things Rutger Hauer does to make a buck. In this Blade Runner-ish dystopian thriller, he plays a cop with lovely hair on the trail of a bloodthirsty serial killer that may nor may not be human. Hauer has a new partner, a prissy but game sort who provides the comic relief, and a loyal girlfriend, played by the fetching Kim Cattral. She has an R-rated shower sequence, guys! The film makes little sense, and it gets boring rather quickly. "We need bigger guns" is spoken, a line we have often heard before. If you find yourself awake at 3 a.m. and can't get back to sleep, you might want to catch this. The gore isn't quite as bad as you might think, and the action scenes are basically Hauer and his partner shooting their guns willy nilly.

chambersjad Well, 8 stars comes with an "*" attached. It was exactly the right movie to watch the first time I saw it. I was looking for a somewhat witty, kind of suspenseful, action thriller. And that's exactly what "Split Second" is. Since then I've seen it a couple more times. And it was deliberate. I was in the mood for that type of movie, and so I watched it again. It's not "10-star" brilliant. It does a few things right, does not take too many chances, and gives some witty lines to some OK actors. In the end it's success is that it had nothing in it that annoyed me or put me to sleep. It may not have been great or superb, but it was never bad for one second. I thought about giving it a 6 or so for that, but the extra for the 8star rating came from the fact that this movie is just so fun. So if you're looking for a somewhat clever, suspenseful, action packed movie, you are in for exactly what you want