Showing posts with label Future Hunters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Future Hunters. Show all posts
Saturday, April 24, 2021
Future Hunters - Robert Patrick (1986) - Mody Road, Kowloon
It appears that the pair will be staying at the Holiday Inn Golden Mile because our final location for this film sees the taxi driving across Mody Road from Bristol Avenue, and into the aforementioned hotel. This is where the Hong Kong sojourn ends because the next scene involves Patrick and Bruce Le going to a pagoda to meet Silverfox (Hwang Jang Lee) but those scenes appear to have been shot in Manila.
Friday, April 23, 2021
Future Hunters - Robert Patrick (1986) - Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui
After being picked up from the airport, the guys catch a cab to their hotel and the next location sees them driving along Salisbury Road with both the Coliseum and the (now demolished) International Mail Centre.
Future Hunters - Robert Patrick (1986) - Kai Tak Airport, Kowloon
It's come to that time again when I have to start scraping the very bottom of the barrel and figured one of the worst films I've ever seen is probably due an outing on the blog. Granted, the film was 'supposedly' written by J.Lee Thompson (the man who directed classics such as Ice Cold in Alex, The Guns of Navarone, Cape Fear, and was kicked out of Hong Kong with Gregory Peck in 1969 as they were trying to make The Chairman) and stars Robert Patrick and Richard Norton (neither a stranger to making films in Hong Kong - Patrick was featured previously here in Hong Kong '97 and Richard Norton has a long pedigree in Hong Kong film and also had a brief cameo in Forced Vengeance) but it doesn't change the fact that the film is a big bag (and 100 mins) o' shite.
Anyway, the plot involves Richard Norton being transferred into the future (I think) with the tip of the spear that killed Christ, and his need to get the artifact to a Professor Hightower (although it doesn't explain how he knows him) before the Nazis do. Patrick and his girlfriend fly to Hong Kong in search of Hightower but then end up having to go to the Philippines where they run away from Nazis, stumble across a tribe of pygmies, partake in some extreme low-budget special effects and then..well, I can't remember because I got bored. Its one highlight is a brief cameo from Korean superkicker, Hwang Jang Lee.
The screen caps here are fairly low quality because I haven't been able to secure a physical copy of the film and ended up taking the screencaps from a version uploaded to DailyMotion.com (see link here), so if anyone knows of a proper release, please let me know so I can do my bit and pay for it.
So, the Hong Kong scenes start with the usual arrival at Kai Tak where the pair are met by Patrick's local friend, played by Bruce Le.
Anyway, the plot involves Richard Norton being transferred into the future (I think) with the tip of the spear that killed Christ, and his need to get the artifact to a Professor Hightower (although it doesn't explain how he knows him) before the Nazis do. Patrick and his girlfriend fly to Hong Kong in search of Hightower but then end up having to go to the Philippines where they run away from Nazis, stumble across a tribe of pygmies, partake in some extreme low-budget special effects and then..well, I can't remember because I got bored. Its one highlight is a brief cameo from Korean superkicker, Hwang Jang Lee.
The screen caps here are fairly low quality because I haven't been able to secure a physical copy of the film and ended up taking the screencaps from a version uploaded to DailyMotion.com (see link here), so if anyone knows of a proper release, please let me know so I can do my bit and pay for it.
So, the Hong Kong scenes start with the usual arrival at Kai Tak where the pair are met by Patrick's local friend, played by Bruce Le.
