Split Second

Really love this movie which was why I paid $20 for a 25 year old movie. I originally had it on laser disc (& still do), but wanted it on DVD again. I had it on DVD from awhile ago but disc started having issues & wouldn't play in one spot. So when that happened I then ordered the reg DVD Euro version (only one avail), which would not play on my DVD player. So my husband was able to get it to play on his computer & copied it to a disc, so I could watch a DVD of the movie. It was terrible. It looked like someone had copied the VHS to a disc & been allowed to sell it on Amazon. So then I found this one & was worried but most people said it would play on their player & that the picture was decent & because it was Blu-ray I was hoping the disc was more durable. Have now had multiple issues with reg DVDs playing fine the previous viewing & then all of the sudden having odd issues & skips, without any manhandling or being left out or scratched or anything, which we haven't had happen YET on a Blu-ray disc.I'm going to give exact instructions for how I got this movie to play in English just in case other people are having the same difficulties. It worked on both of our Blu-ray players this way. 1) trying to do it from the menu (selecting the item to the right of the play button to get languages list ) did not work, it would give the option of English 5.1 but would not 'select' it when I pressed the select button on the controller. 2) my husband found a different way to do it than I did, both ways require for you to start the movie 1st unfortunately, once you get it sorted, you can always hit the back/rewind button to see movie from beginning. So hit the play button (1st one on menu) 3) once the movie has started I hit the pop up/menu button on my Blu-ray remote controller which makes the chapter list come up as well as the language list. Do not select chapter after you change the language, it will mess it up again. Select English 5.1, if they are talking on screen, you will hear it switch to English, then scroll down to the subtitles; don't remember the German words but it looks similar to activate & deactivate, select the de-activate & you should stop seeing the German subtitles. The movie will be playing behind that menu & you can see it. Then hit the pop up/menu button again on your remote to make that menu go away, then use your back or prev button on your remote to back to the beginning of the movie again to watch from the start. Seriously if I hit anything else or tried to go back to the main menu or hit chapter selection from the pop up menu, it would go back to German. Don't do that (unless you want to see it in German). 4) my husband was able to get it to do that the same by starting the movie & hitting the audio button on the Blu-ray player remote then scrolling to English & then turning the subtitles to off. Hope that helps. Try that before returning it. Also if you have more than one Blu-ray player, it might work on one & not the other. Have had that happen on a couple of my DVDs. Just glad this played in my U.S. region Blu-ray player.

I've been looking for this movie for years, I absolutely love it. Great sci-fi action movie. Very underrated.

In the future of the past, 2008 London is sinking due to rapidly rising sea levels. Harley Stone is a cop of the edge since his partner died at the hands of a serial killer and now that serial killer is back ripping hearts out all over soggy cyber punk-esque London. Teamed up with a straight laced partner, Dick Durbin, Stone has to stop the killer before he makes a heart healthy meal out of his love interest, Michelle.I love this movie. It feels like a bet between two writers to see who can stuff the most genres into one movie before it explodes off the screen and fills your living room like the flood ravages streets of London. It is a buddy-cop, demonic serial killer, slimy monster, cyber punk sci-fi horror suspense thriller. This movie throws so much at you you’d think it was an angry gorilla hurling barrels at you for 90 minutes. The pace never lets up which is a big plus giving it an infectious energy that you’d find in this sort of late 80s early 90s sci-fi movie that had an insane plot that makes absolutely no sense if you ever slow down to examine it. The actors are great, it is one of those weird 90s productions that gets a really strong cross section of actors despite its low budget aims. Rutger Hauer is having a great time in this with his awesome sunglasses and cigar chomping one liners. Kim Catrall and her amazing sci-fi hair is also great. She really seems to shine in these movies even with not nearly enough screen time. But it is the supporting cast that really makes this stand out. Where else do you get Alun Armstrong, Pete Postlethwaite, Ian Dury, and Michael J Pollard in the same movie, nowhere that’s where. This kind of surreal weird alchemy could only come from the 90s before movies had to get too self aware to get away with something this insane and so much fun.

Look good played fine good movie

...and an apartment that is a mess, and has a few pigeons for company. Harley (played by veteran actor Rutger Hauer, who has a very German-sounding name but is actually an American) is an overworked, stressed-out cop situated in London, trying to hunt down a vicious killer that rips out hearts as his trademark. For the most part Hauer is in fine form in this movie (I don't know that much about him, but I remember my dad watching movies with him in them way back in the 1980's), and he gives a compelling performance (a tad overdone on the machismo element, but that was the style in these days). To me this did have a couple of flaws, though: for one thing I would label it more of an action/ thriller movie (Hauer's specialty) than a genuine horror show, and I also thought the 'blood scenes' were a little overdone (I don't remember the exact amount of blood that circulates through the human body at any given time, but it isn't all that much - maybe only 2 pints or so). And the title - what does that have to do with the storyline? For those who like 'drama scenes' involving police-character egos (along with a touch of supernatural suspense, and a sprinkling of machismo jokes), this should be one for a good time. And the thing I got a kick out of the most? Watching Harley smoke everywhere - that just doesn't happen anymore! Smoking in the club, smoking in the (police) boss' office - smoking pretty much everywhere. It brought me back in time a little bit (which can sometimes be a pleasant experience, other times not); sometimes it seems hard to believe there was a world before the Internet (and cell phones) came along. This movie came out in the early 1990's, so it is proof positive that there was, in fact, such a world. It's just funny, though, how those times seem SO long ago now...

Good picture quality. Does it still hold up after all this time? Here and there.

Una gran peli y por fin la tenemos!! Película de culto de la ciencia ficción, con un de los grandes Rutger Hauer. La edicion alemana de dos discos, trae la peli en dvd y bluray, con audio original en ingles y audio en aleman. Si buscaban una version con audio en español lamentablemente no es esta. ¡¡Llego en la fecha indicada en perfectas condiciones!!

日本語字幕版はなぜかボーナスディスクにはいっています

Perfecto

リージョンBなので見れなかったHAHAHA