闪电侠

　　Set in an underground dungeon inhabited by bundled, ragged human beings, after the nuclear holocaust. The story follows the wanderings of a hero through the situations of survival. People wait for the Ark to arrive and rescue them while their habitat falls apart.
　　Delving deep into the dusty and long abandonded vaults of b-cinema in search of lost gems always leaves me with a bittersweet taste. On one hand the discovery of unexpected gems where no one would think them possible is a rewarding experience. On the other hand though it makes one wonder how many of these remarkable low-budget oddities, personal love affairs of directors never quite famous and now all but forgotten, have almost forever slipped from memory?
　　n any case what we have here is a little post-apocalyptic gem from Poland that is really better than it has any right to. The dystopian near future of O-BI, O-BA finds a group of survivors of the nuclear war that ravaged the Earth inhabiting an underworld concrete bunker and biding their time as they wait for the mysterious Ark, an air ship of some kind that will come and save them. The Ark proves to be an elaborate hoax, carefully designed to give hope to the malnourished and desperate denizens of the bunker, while in the meantime the dome that separates their miserable existence from the nuclear winter outside is slowly caving in.
　　What first striked me about the movie is the design of the bunker and the depiction of the survivors. The survivors are gaunt, filthy and terrible-looking penitents, dressed in rags and aimlessly wandering the neon-lit halls of the bunker like automatons. The bunker is a rundown, seedy place, with bright neon lights peering from all sides like the eyes of malignant beasts.
　　On one hand it is a slightly 80's depiction of the dystopian future but the movie never stoops down to MAD MAX cheese. Instead it combines biting political satire with the bleak outlook of a world with no future, black comedy with barbs on apathy, religion and power. The survivors, for example, are fed some kind of flour dropping from a tube that hovers in the air - later on we discover the food supervisor uses books and the Bible itself as filler for this meagre meal. There are many such short symbolic touches, perhaps not life-changing or faith-restoring, yet playful, clever and inspired.
　　One thing is for sure; O-BI, O-BA is not your run-of-the-mill sci-fi schlock. It overcomes its modest budget with creativity and has genuine artistic aspirations both from a writing and directing perspective. My opinion is that it should have been filmed in black and white instead of colour though. The director uses atmospheric light and shadow to great effect and it would have registered even better in stark black and white. The blue-green neon on the other hand outstays its welcome after a while. Just a minor gripe in an otherwise solid b-movie with its heart set in all the right places.
　　Imagine a less bleak THE ROAD (Cormac McCarthy) being injected with the satire and humour of DR.STRANGELOVE and you're getting there. See it if you can find it.

　　一个少女和她父亲来到外星球勘察神秘矿石，但那座充满危险的森林里还有其他人，很快勘探变成了一场绝命逃亡。

　　阿克曼博士是当地一所大学的生物老师，他在被不明飞行物追赶时遇到了意外的死亡。韦斯利，他的一个学生，在吸引女性方面有困难。这一切都发生了变化，当Xenobia女士接管了阿克曼的课程，并说服卫斯理参加一些维生素研究，她和她的助理Drax正在进行。突然，韦斯利变得很有魅力，尽管在兴奋的时候，他的脑袋里长出了肉质的天线。他新发现的成功可能会疏远他真正关心的那个女孩(Leeanne)，而Xenobia的动机可能与她不是这个地球的事实有关。

　　一个被称为“火把”（尚格·云顿 Jean-Claude Van Damme 饰）的变态杀手的出现让西雅图市市民陷入了恐慌之中，作为负责此案的警官，杰克（迈克尔·鲁克 Michael Rooker 饰）和其搭档安吉（凯瑟琳·丹特 Catherine Dent 饰）对杀手进行了长时间的追击，几经交手后，虽然“火把”负伤，但还是逃之夭夭。
　　杰克的退休日眼看就要来临，虽然案件没有水落石出，但他还是决定放下手中的一切，安享闲散生活，而就在这个节骨眼上，杰克得知了“火把”的下一个目标竟然就是自己的母亲的惊人消息。利用“火把”的DNA，政府将“火把”克隆了出来，根据克隆人的思维模式来推测真正的“火把”的行动规律。虽然克隆“火把”并不邪恶，但深藏在他基因中的犯罪基因却像一个定时炸弹般随时都要爆发。在双重威胁中，杰克能够获得最终的胜利吗？

　　被称为“韩国硅谷”的板桥遭到核弹袭击。根据韩国政府的指示，某风险企业的家族成员决定在自家地下室躲上两个星期。一天天过去，地下室的生存愈发艰难……

　　几个芝加哥大学附属医院高材生，在好奇心的驱使下，策划了一场探索死亡奥秘的疯狂实验。他们轮流躺在手术室里进入死亡状态，再由其他守护的同学将自己救活。这场惊险又刺激的死亡穿梭，在一个漆黑的深夜里一步步的开始了。
　　第一个进行测试的纳尔逊（基弗·萨瑟兰 Kiefer Sutherland 饰）在“死”去之后，遇见了因他的侮辱而死去的男孩。死而复生后的纳尔逊，虽然各种感官都变得更加敏锐和灵敏，却陷入深深的梦魇之中；接受实验的第二个人是好色的乔（威廉·鲍德温 William Baldwin 饰），他见到了各种色情场面，并且遇见了曾虐待过的女孩；紧接着，戴维（凯文·贝肯 Kevin Bacon 饰）也接受了实验，他则将死亡实验延迟到了两分钟；女学生蕾切尔（朱莉娅·罗伯茨 Julia Roberts 饰）更是在死亡时间里，重温了父亲自杀的经过。在体验过死亡世界之后，那些挥之不去的往日记忆开始无孔不入的侵占他们的一切。