Knights (1993)

[Sven A]

Anyone has any comments on this one? This gem of kung fu+cyborg+sword and sorcery film making  (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0107333) was directed by Albert Pyun, who also did "The Sword and The Sorcerer" (reviewed on this site). It's about a post-apocalyptic world (all scenes are located to the desert though) where vampyre cyborgs run amok rules and feeds on the rest of humanity. A kung fu blonde teams up with a good cyborg (Kris Kristofferson) and kicks the evil cyborgs ass in a number of really silly fights. Especially the names of the fighting "techniques" used by the protagonists are hilarious - what about "The Krim Attack" or "The Valhalla Attack". The ending too is a total, laughable anticlimax, promising sequels that were never made. Check it out!

[Steven Millan]

           Yep:another Albert Pyun anti-classic,which is more viewable than his usually nauseating celluloid dreck("Mean Guns","Deceit","Down Twisted","Crazy Six",those three Czech-filmed Ice-T gangsta movies["Urban Menace,Corrupt","The Wrecking Crew"],etc.,etc.,etc.,.....),and it's best remembered for launching former kickboxing womens' champion Kathy Long's 15 seconds of cinematic fame(as "the Perfect Weapon" did with Jeff Speakman),and both Lance Hendriksen and Gary Daniels' usual B movie set strolls(hope they both got paid as good as Kris Kristofferson did).

[Lee]

I actually kind of liked this one. I know, I couldn't beleive I was enjoying a Pyun movie either. I have a thing for Kathy Long so that is the main reason for my enjoyment. Gary Daniels(who is a cool guy) didn't get a whole lot of screen time. It's too bad neither Kathy or Gary have hit it big, they had alot of potential. Don't beleive me, check out Under The Gun and Blood Moon.

[raj]

Keep repeating to yourself, as you watch this, "Kris is a Rhodes Scholar".
Can we nominate Sam Raimi for the Nobel in Literature now? (Or even Fred Olen Ray).

[Neville]

I didn't watch this one, but it can't be worse than "Omega doom", another cyborg film by Pyun starring Rutger Hauer. Never thought cyborgs could speak silly one-liners or that anybody could produce a bad "Yojimbo" remake until I saw this.

Oh, and the soundtrack mixes Morricone rip-offs with synthetizers. Doh!

[Jay O'Connor]

Need I say I actually liked "Omega Doom"?  (And "Split Second" and "Red Line", a couple of other Rutger Hauer offerings)

Rutger Hauer and Christopher Lambert; I'm willing to watch almost anything by them.

[john]

I kind of liked Knights, and Down Twisted.

[Neville]

I like Rutger Hauer, but the flicks in which he appears are goddam awful, you have to admit that.

[Jay O\'Connor]

Oh, yeah.  Rutger Hauer and Christopher Lambert have both in some pretty ones, and Hauer has a way of telgraphing that he's only in it for the paycheck

Anther one I like to see show up in the credits is Lance Henrickson, and while he tends to show up in a lot of low budegt stuff, they manage to be pretty good