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Darkdrive (1997)

Darkdrive (1997)

GENRESAction,Sci-Fi
LANGEnglish
ACTOR
Gian-Carlo ScandiuzziClaire StansfieldNick EldredgeKen Olandt
DIRECTOR
Phillip J. Roth

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Darkdrive (1997) is a English movie. Phillip J. Roth has directed this movie. Gian-Carlo Scandiuzzi,Claire Stansfield,Nick Eldredge,Ken Olandt are the starring of this movie. It was released in 1997. Darkdrive (1997) is considered one of the best Action,Sci-Fi movie in India and around the world.

In the near future, a new law has criminals sent to a virtual reality world as their prison, built by a shadowy corporation called Zircon based in Seattle. The designer of the system, Steven Falcon, realizes the danger of it being overloaded and of hackers who try to break in and steal files only to have the prisoners try to break out via that method. When Falcon threatens to quit the operation, he becomes marked for murder by his employers who force him to enter the Matrix virtual reality/afterlife to find the source of the danger of the system crashing.

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Darkdrive (1997) Reviews

  • Three stars for Julie Benz, Clare Stansfield and the music

    TheLittleSongbird2013-02-19

    I always aim to be fair to movies in reviews and ratings, I always try to know what to expect before viewing, I never bail out after a certain amount of time, I try to be as succinct and unbiased as possible and be understanding of other people's opinions instead of generalising or attacking(on a side note, people can do with this and they'll be surprised at how easy it is). I gave that treatment to Darkdrive and while I have seen much worse I still didn't like it. It is not entirely irredeemable, the music manages to be memorable and fitting, Julie Benz has a beautiful face and appealing presence that really shines through and Clare Stansfield is very cool. However there is so much that is wrong. The worst asset was the story which I found impossible to follow, in fact I don't think I have ever been this confused by a movie before. As a consequence of that, and the turgid pacing too, I never had any engagement or emotional attachment to the action or characters. Any suspense, memorable action move or humour just wasn't there in Darkdrive, there were probably attempts that didn't come through, at least to me. The dialogue is clichéd and stilted while the rest of the acting is at best dire. The camera work and angles get too much, there was an attempt to tell the story through them but with that tactic everything just felt incomprehensible, and the special effects look as though they belong in a very cheap-looking movie from the 80s. All in all, not the worst I've seen but lame. 3/10 Bethany Cox

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  • looks like a 80's SF flick

    trashgang2010-10-19

    Yeah yeah, I know, it isn't supposed to be in my collection but like many reviewers I bought it for Julie Benz. I have seen her perform in quite a bit of movies and of course in Dexter. Over here in the genre she's well sought after due Dexter and due her appearance at European conventions were I have met her. Why it shouldn't be in my collection is that it isn't a horror but a SF flick. But as a collector I have seen a lot of crap, from top class to Z-movies. It's a phenomena that is regular in horror to have some real turkeys. I would say that I would classify it under a straight-to-video B-flick. The effects used are typical 80's stuff like flashing lights and flashbulbs tearing down persons. They surely have watched Terminator and Blade Runner to come up with something but sometimes the acting is really wooden. The story itself is hard to follow but for many it's the scene with the 21 year old Julie that makes the film worth watching. She's seen in frontal nudity here a thing she never did again, except for Dexter and Eating Las Vegas, a parody on Leaving Las Vegas, but she shows the most in this flick. If you are into B-movies than you surely can watch this. A few years later The Matrix showed how it should be done.

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  • If you can follow this plot you need professional help.

    mathewignash2002-08-07

    A weird tale of a guy sent into a virtual reality penal colony, where he finds his dead wife singing in a night club, fights Alti from Xena, and tries and fails miserably to be a noir matrix wanna be, without the plot, special effects, or acting. One bright note is an appearance of pre-Buffy The Vampire Slayer Julie Benz, who gets killed several times and has a love scene, and a unexplained kid by the end. So it's a lot like her character of Darla. We even get to see Julie totally topless for her love scene, but sadly they voice over exposition while she sings in the night club. I'd have prefered to hear her sing.

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  • Claire Stansfield was also confused

    Enigma-I2005-03-02

    A few years ago I had an opportunity to talk to Claire Stansfield about this film. I said that I was confused about the plot and hoped she could explain it to me. She said that she was also confused, and hoped that someone would explain it to her as well. We both agreed that the film's plot made absolutely no sense and left it at that. Perhaps this was someone's attempt to fill in the prison back story of Demolition Man (remember the VR deep freeze in that one?). The Sci-Fi premise of a VR prison has plenty of merit (c.f. The Matrix), but this movie lacked any semblance of credibility or even of continuity. In any case, this movie is one to miss unless you are a die-hard fan of one of the actors involved. Even so, prepare to be disappointed. I was.

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  • Weird but fascinating film with ideas that may have inspired other movies? Read only after watching, as contains subtle spoilers.

    fizzgig-942962016-10-31

    I just watched this film today for the first time, nearly 20 years after it was made. It is a very confusing story line, but cool characters and excellent background music. It reminded me of a whole chain of other excellent films that could have been inspired by this one even though it wasn't clear exactly what was going on all of the time. My view is that it was the first inspiration for a reality world in the matrix using that description, but had a groundhog day feel to it and also a dark city feel to it, as we tried to solve the mystery of the breach of the matrix. In my view the story also has a hint of the looper in that the main character closes his own loop. The young girl getting caught in the matrix explains how he broke the breach the first time, as she entered from the street and so it showed that it was possible for the prison to be breached. So many interpretations of the story can be made, but my interpretation is that he may have put his wife there himself knowing that the mind essence doesn't die in the prison, but persists and changes form as they show the goons don't die when they are killed. Maybe he intended to live forever in the matrix with his beloved as it was better than the existing world? From the outside the breach is fixed but maybe he has the final revenge? Because it is so confusing it is almost impossible to discuss this film without some kind of interpretation spoiler but would be curious to know if anyone else enjoyed this film as I did!

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