金刚归来

　　未来世界，各个世界强国被商业力量所征服。受利益驱使，各大工业巨头搜集武器和强手，向竞争对手展开无情征伐与屠戮。绵亘多年的战争过后，曾经繁华大都市化为废墟，商业首脑们则席卷财富逃遁。废墟之中诞生九人议会，他们在重建文明复兴的希望同时，雇佣了许多赏金杀手追杀那些贪欲横生的商业巨头，这些为民除害的杀手也成为底层人民的英雄和偶像。流浪者崔弗特（马修·马斯登 Matthew Marsden 饰）正是其中翘楚，引得名叫杰克（Barak Hardley 饰）的胖男子自告奋勇当他的助手。谁知一张通缉令却将崔弗特逼到绝地，现实和与之风头无量的赏金猎手死亡玛丽（Christian Pitre 饰）一阵互搏，随后和杰克他上凶险旅途，试图说服议会。
　　复杂的形势下，崔弗特命悬一线……

　　在一个平凡的夜晚，美丽的空中小姐珍妮（Mercedes Masöhn 饰）和朋友宝拉（Bre Blair 饰）登上天空航空公司飞往堪萨斯的318次航班，执行有一次看似平常的飞行任务。一如既往，这架小型飞机上聚集着各色各样的乘客，珍妮耐心友善地服务乘客，却不知危险正渐渐逼近。飞行途中，一名肥胖的乘客神态异常，在吐了珍妮一身秽物之后，竟发狂地冲向驾驶舱要求下飞机。机舱内一片混乱，万般无奈之下，飞机只得迫降于洛杉矶机场。而在这一过程中，宝拉也被胖子啃噬，情况危急。
　　机组成员和乘客来到洛杉矶机场，却发现偌大的机场内空无一人，他们仿佛被世人囚禁于一个隔离的区域中……

　　2100年，在神秘的荒野极寒森林地带，到处是茂密的原始深林，和寒冷的冰雪，里面暗藏危机。在这片极寒荒野森林地带有一块带有外太空宇宙力量的加卡尔2号星球的陨石坠落于此，这种陨石具有神秘的力量可以将其他生物变异，但是通过科学家将其找到并技术改良，可以消除陨石带来的变异力量，化为解决多样性生物各种疾病造福人类的解决方案。文教授所带领的科考队前往了这片荒野极寒森林地带寻找这颗陨石来消除这场危机，但是邪恶的烈昆集团也在寻找这颗陨石给他们带来财富，但是谁都没有想到陨石改变了生物的特性，这群生物变的危险重重，文教授他们能否面对邪恶的烈昆集团和危险生物的双重危机，找到陨石解决这场危机？

　　When an alien hunter arrives on post-apocalypse Earth, it takes down a gang of warlords and unexpectedly becomes a folk hero to the oppressed locals. Now with their support, the alien sets its sights on the warlords' ruthless leader.

　　Eric Braeden stars as Dr. Charles Forbin, who has created a supercomputer named Colossus, built solely for the purpose of controlling the nuclear defenses of the Western alliance. It isn't too long after, however, that the Russians announce that they too have built a similar computer for those same purposes on their side--Guardian. And when the two machines begin sharing information at a speed nobody can believe, an attempt is made to disable them.
　　This unfortunately just raises the machines' ire; and in retaliation, they launch their weapons at each other's home nations. The result is a chilling scenario that is potentially becoming all too real these days.
　　COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT was not a big hit at the box office for various reasons. One is that its cast wasn't exactly well known. Another reason is that its ending isn't exactly a happy one. Still a third reason is that Universal had trouble trying to promote it in the wake of the huge success of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. The latter reason is obvious: Colossus and Guardian, like HAL in the Kubrick movie, become central characters here. The difference here is that while HAL malfunctions due to a programming conflict, Colossus and Guardian remain all too stable, convinced beyond a doubt that they know how to protect Mankind better than Man himself. As the computers point out: "One inevitable rule is that Mankind is his own worst enemy."
　　Joseph Sargent's direction is efficient, and the special effects work of Albert Whitlock still manages to work despite its obvious age. An overlooked gem in the sci-fi genre, this should be given a revival.