From the awesome 80s style guitar/synth score to what I just mentioned, to the overall tone and feel of the film. The Ultimate Action Movie Stars Align in ‘Skin Trade’ (2014)ĭark Angel definitely shares similarities with The Terminator, which I think they weren’t trying to hide. Hues is also pursued by another alien from his own planet, who is trying to bring him back or take him down altogether. The reason he is here? From what I gather he was there to suck the brains of his victims that were juiced up on heroin, to take back to his planet to sell? He brings his usual presence as he builds up the killcount, while stating “I Come In Peace”. The one and only Matthias Hues (Fists of Iron/Kickboxer 2/No Retreat Surrender 2) in probably his most memorable role here as the lead alien. ![]() As Lundgren states “I think we are dealing with aliens and not from Mexico.” They come to find out that they are dealing with suspects not from this world. Lundgren and Benben develop some pretty good buddy cop elements, even though Benben is annoying as hell for the most part. That is until these drug dealers start dropping like flies. Lundgren is a renegade cop who teams up with a by-the-book FBI agent (Brian Benben), to take down some drug dealers. What starts out to be your usual cop drama, turns into something out of this world, literally. What he’s up against isn’t.”ĭolph Lundgren at His Absolute Best in ‘Army of One’ / ‘Joshua Tree’ One of the taglines of the film sums it up well – “Jack Caine. It is a truly unique gem in the Dolph Lundgren catalog, all taking place around a Christmas time backdrop. To celebrate Christmas this year, I popped in the sci-fi action classic Dark Angel, aka I Come In Peace. Dolph himself doesn’t get to show off his karate skills as much he does in other movies like “ Showdown In Little Tokyo” but at least all the explosions make up for it.Dolph Lundgren’s ultimate Christmas gift to the world – ‘I Come in Peace’! If you don’t want to bother with 80 minutes of pure fun early 90’s action you could stick to the trailer since it has all the explosions from the movie, which are a lot as well as the one liners. ![]() Since they are basically mandatory in these kinds of movies there’s also a scene in a strip club. Something Predator 2 would do the same year.Īpparently CDs were still a thing in 1990 and it’s kind of funny that maybe this movie not only served as an inspiration for Predator 2, though I highly doubt that but the similarities can not be ignored, but also maybe for Hellraiser III, which had a Cenobite killing people with CDs he threw.īeing 20 years old this movie doesn’t bother with going for a PG-13 rating.It has some gratuitous nudity inserted and typical characters you only find in movies like a hot chick who works as an auto mechanic and doesn’t wear an overall while working so that the audience gets a good look at her bra when the alien rips open her blouse. Dark Angel is clearly a Predator rip-off only set in a city and featuring cops and drug dealers. Trafficking costs a lot of money, let alone intergalactic trafficking.Ī large powerful alien comes to earth, kills people with CD-like discs and finds his match in a European body builder posing as an American. People who saw the trailer first know that this is a 90 minute set-up for the punchline “And you’re going in pieces”.īut seriously: a drug dealer from another planet comes to earth to extract endorphins from human brains on heroin which function as a drug on his home planet! How did they ever discover that? I’m wondering what the street price is of these drugs on his home planet since they aren’t that cheap to make. Luckily there’s also an alien law enforcer on his trail, so Dolph and his FBI partner aren’t alone against the intergalactic thread and this makes it easier for the writers to explain to the audience what somebody from outer space is doing here since the evil alien himself only utters the line “I come in piece” over and over again. ![]() He steals a suitcase full of heroine from a drug dealer, then injects several random victims with it and taps something out of their brain at the same time. That isn’t clear from the beginning though as his motivations are not revealed right away and his actions raise question marks. Then there’s Dark Angel, a 1990 sci-fi action movie starring Dolph Lundgren who has to take on an alien who’s here for one reason: drugs. When aliens land on earth they’re here mostly for two things: by accident and just looking for a way back home or to take over the world, the latter being the basis for most stories.
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