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| This one centers on (all together now!): Vigilante Werewolf Cops! Mario Van Peebles (playing Max), star of many mid budget movies, is a cop drawn into a circle of werewolves. His partner is shot a few times in the chest, but given a shot to transform himself into a werewolf. But oh no, these are not classical werewolves: they take a drug to transform, and they just get ugly and grow claws like the X-Men's Wolverine. Garou leads them (Garou, by the way, is part of a less common way to say werewolf.), and his brain produces that very drug (yuck!). Alas, his partner kills himself for an unknown reason and Max is fingered to replace him. At first, all is semi-well and they deal death to a large assortment of stereotypical mobsters and other criminal types. Unfortunately, all is not what it seems and just about everyone dies. Full Eclipse is great half way into it. At that point, there are zero action scenes for the rest and everything is over stylized so much it's silly. If your willing to enjoy the violence and action in the first half, and laugh at the stupid majority in the second, Full Eclipse is a masterpiece. It also has Bruce Payne in it as the villain, Garou, and as always it's a delightful performance. |
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 | It's possible for a made-for-cable movie to have a sex scene without gratuitous female nudity.
| | It is not wise to blow up a team of werewolves.
| | Werewolves make cat noises at random in combat.
| | It's acceptable to kill cops if you kill enough criminals to make up for it.
| | Werewolves survive hundreds of bullet hits and explosions, but getting bitten kills them instantly.
| | You should always wipe the blood of your lips before making a big mission statement; otherwise you look silly.
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| 3 mins - Jimmy is a dork!
| | 9 mins - Poor Jimmy, 4 new holes!
| | 18 mins - Duck! Flying werewolf!
| | 33 mins - Uh oh, pro-vigilante rants!
| | 38 mins - Damn, I guess werewolves do make good vigilantes!
| | 47 mins - Proof that ANY scene can be over stylized.
| | 52 mins - Wow, he bled about 3 gallons of blood in 10 seconds.
| | 65 mins - Garou is such a party pooper! Sheesh.
| | 83 mins - RANDOM ACT OF VIOLENCE AGAINST A POLICE OFFICER!
| | 94 mins - Oooooh... ...what a great almost-cliffhanger ending!
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| | Audio clips in wav format | SOUNDS | Starving actors speak out | |
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| File | Dialog |  | fulleclipse1.wav
| Max: "There's been more then one cop had his partner blown into ICU and came out acting like one of the bionic X-Men?"
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| Max: "Man, he was ready to pack it in, get married, everything. Goes into the hospital, comes back out, acting like Dirty Harry on crack!"
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| Max: "So what, I get in the club now or I gotta f**k a cadaver or something?"
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| Max: "Ya know what, I think I'm gonna have to just say no."
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| Kid: "You? Are gonna bust them?"
Max: "That was her idea."
Kid: "You wanna leave me your keys?"
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| Garou: "Someone's been bad..."
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Reply #1. Posted on February 17, 2000, 02:49:57 PM by Demonicuss
I remember seeing this one on HBO. It had some sweet action sequences. The high-flying wolf-corps kicked ass and didn't f**k with asking questions! Thought the final werewolf monster was lame, though. But, all in all, a pretty cool film. "This is my brain, this is you on my brain...Any questions?"
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Reply #2. Posted on February 20, 2000, 12:23:03 PM by Stefan Robak
If you're going to heckle this movie with friends the perfect thing to say during the Flying Werewolf scene: "You will believe a werewalf can fly" (That's making fun of the tagline for Superman only the had man instead of werewolf.)
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Reply #3. Posted on February 21, 2000, 02:07:31 AM by Tabby
Casey is played by the inimitable Patsy Kensit, plucky british b-starlet who's still easy on the eyes!
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Reply #4. Posted on February 21, 2000, 12:08:01 PM by Paul H.
Five slimes is way to many. At first I Thought Andrew was suffering from demensia from watching Peepers but then I noticed it was a guess review.
Full eclipse is an ok film but it lacks way to many things. It is slow, dark, and to cop-ish. I hate vigillante cop movies. I mean who gives a cussword.
Over between 2-2.372 green globs
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Reply #5. Posted on February 28, 2000, 06:14:15 PM by James Hepler (review author, NOT Andrew)
Anyways, I figured I should defend my opinions (which is what they are).
First of all, yes, the final monster is lame. That's part of the charm, it's incredibly stupid in the entire second half.
"FIVE SLIMES?! HUH!!! Andy, this movie sucked out our asses!"
Yes, it DID suck ass. Remember the address to this site? BAD MOVIES! I like bad movies damn it! Remember The Giant Claw? There's another movie that sucks ass. I would definetly agree with the five star rating from Andrew, however.
And finally, Paul, if you hate vigilante cop movies, you're automatically prejudiced against Full Eclipse (since that's exactly what it is) and are unable to give an unbiased opinion.
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Reply #6. Posted on October 15, 2000, 04:55:47 PM by Lisa
Watched it only for Bruce Payne, he was great as usual.Lisa
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Reply #7. Posted on March 14, 2007, 01:13:05 PM by fortunato
This was a pretty bad film. The ending was freakin' weak.
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