Time's Up!

WHEN TIME EXPIRES-1997-Travis Beck (Richard Greico) is an alien on a mission from the "Union of Peace and Progress". In 2 days he has to put a coin in a certain parking meter. He's also being targeted by some assassins. Mark Hamil plays another alien who comes to warn him of trouble. He meets a waitress (Cynthia Geary) who's crippled father (Chad Everett) is also an alien. It turns out someone wants Earth destroyed before it is allowed in the union. Even though the story isn't exactly what it appears to be it's still predictable. Tim Thomerson and Ron Masak are also in it. This played on Showtime Extreme and I understand why. It's extremely talky, extremely tedious, extremely bad. Blame director David Bourla...

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Live Action Manga

THE GUYVER-1991-This is a crazy kind of Sci-Fi superhero comedy drama based on a Japanese manga.

A scientist working for the evil Chronus corporation has created “the most dangerous technology since the atom bomb”. It's called The Guyver, an armor that sort of fuses with the body. It looks like an sinister version of Ultra-Man.

Chronus CEO Balcus (David Gale from RE-ANIMATOR in his last role) wants the armor. His semi-comical goon squad includes Jimmy Walker, Michael Berryman and Spice Williams. They can all mutate into monsters too. After the scientist is killed a dumb martial arts student (Jack Armstrong) accidentally gets the armor and must save the late scientist’s daughter (Vivian Wu). Mark Hamil is a CIA agent who helps out but becomes a monster in the climax. It’s a fun movie if you like outrageous monsters fighting with a little comedy thrown in.

Linnea Quigley has one scream, I mean scene and REANIMATOR star Jeffery Combs has a small role. Co-director Screaming Mad George did SFX on many movies (including BRIDE OF THE RE-ANIMATOR) but this is his only full length feature credit.

Co-director Steve Wang later made a sequel GUYVER: DARK HERO and episodes of MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS. If THE GUYVER seems to have a lot of Re-Animator connects, Brian Yuzna was the producer.



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