Give me a break. If you watch this and are griping then you are the dummy for watching it. You know in 5 minutes what this movie is about and it mainly delivers.Here is why you should watch and love this movie: Yvonne Scio. This babe is totally, and I mean T TOTALLY!!!!!, babeulicious hot. She has this gorgeous curly hair, but kissable lips, and a rocking hot body.Plus, there are other nekkid women in here, too. Still, the hot hot hot Ms. Scio is the best reason and yes she is nekkid quite a bit.The one and only gripe I have is Ms. Scio's role seems to change about 3 times in the movie. I wish someone could explain that. But, hey!, if David Lynch can do it and be hailed a genius, why not this movie? If you want to be nerdy Roger Ebert wannabe and hate on this, why aren't you watching Oprah or some Julia Roberts chick flick? Be a real man, grab some sweet tea and snacks, and sit back and enjoy Ms. Scio, who will make you feel much better about being a man.

This movie is actually quite good - but only for fans of near future sci-fi and non mainstream movies. If you were expecting Hollywood action then you're better off renting one of the millions of action clones at your local DVD store. For a start, the overall near future atmosphere is excellent - grubby, seedy, and not quite the utopian fantasy enjoyed by Hollywood. The old world Eastern-bloc architecture makes perfect cinematography and is a world of contrasts. This movie pays a lot of attention to detail - the fashion and scene locations in particular. The cyber-punk aspects are pleasantly NOT overdone. The plot isn't hard to follow (I don't know what the critics are whining about, perhaps they should stick with day time TV plots) even if it is a standard revenge type thing. My only quibble would be some of the gun fights - a little spaghetti western for my taste and a tad unrealistic. I thought the acting was excellent throughout and the characters portrayed well - especially the gangsters. The women are particularly sultry and beautiful. Not sure what the nudity fuss is about, not that big a deal and I thought tastefully done. The underground party scenes are very cool and I also rate the entire musical score highly - soundtrack would be excellent.

Gee, what's not to like about this movie? The acting? It's serviceable enough considering this isn't a big budget film. Rutger Hauer's finest work is not demonstrated here, but still this is a Rutger Hauer film which means that it will be a bit different from the regular straight-to-video junk you see. The shootouts were laughable? Of course they were! Shootouts are always laughable in every movie in which a hero survives totally unscathed. The two notable exceptions are "Saving Private Ryan" and "Tombstone". There are a few others, but at least Hauer and Scio aren't sliding down glaciers on a car fender or something of that ilk.Let's put things in proper perspective. When you have a movie that sounds good before it goes on paper, but doesn't look nearly as good after the ink has dried you find ways to make it not a complete waste of time. So you do the following: 1. Get Rutger Hauer2. Buy lots of bullets (hero resistant, of course!)3. Get a beautiful actress (and in this caseYvonne Scio is a 10!)4. Buy some more bullets5. Show lots of skin (Nude female bodybuilders withsoft muscles...hmmmm)6. Have sex ...lots of it7. Buy a few more bullets8. Kill all the bad guys (but only after you revealthat some good guys are bad and worse than thebad guy you were originally after who turns outto be easier to kill than expected)9. Throw in convoluted ending (like my previousparenthetical remark)10. Have more sexFor Pete's sake, people this is a cable channel movie. Enjoy it for the adrenaline and the visual pleasure. Don't get hung up on thinking about it. I'll watch this one again, if there isn't anything else on, or I need an Yvonne Scio fix.

This movie had the kernel of something different in its concept and layout, but blows it completely. Back from death movies with an action twist have been done several times, (good ones being "Robocop" and "The Crow") but this one doesn't even approach the philosophical aspects other than people looking at Rutger Hauer and saying, "I thought you were dead."No, what made this movie start off different was the bizarre mix of old Eastern European backgrounds and settings with near future technology and lifestyle. This different look was reminiscent of (and done better) in Rutger Hauer's other recent movie, "Fatherland."If the movie had tried it could have been a so-so Bladerunner set in Russia, or if it really made a leap it could have been something uniquely it's own. Instead it ruins any hope it had with endless shoot-outs and sex scenes. These in and of themselves don't make much of a plot or a movie, and I kept thinking of those parodies of Hollywood movies, which this one quickly became.