- Actors: Christopher Lambert, Natasha Henstridge, Norbert Weisser
- Directors: Albert Pyun
- Producers: Tom Karnowski
- Format: Subtitled, PAL
- Language English
- Subtitles: Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Hindi, Turkish
- Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 2.35:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: 18
- Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- DVD Release Date: 20 Feb 2006
- Run Time: 93 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 1.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B000CIWXFA
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 43,819 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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A futuristic thriller dealing with the virulent spread of a death plague caused by a toxic chemical leak. The world is now divided into two camps -- the sick and the healthy. Set in Boston, Massachusetts in the year 2007, military operatives and the local police must work together to find and secure an escapee from a mental hospital before a blood bomb containing the virus explodes either killing most of the population or turning them into raving psychotics.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Some spoilers in this review, but that doesn't matter if you take my advice and do not buy!
Opening credits are interspersed with low quality TV news footage and voiceover that would sound more at home on 1960's "Time Machine". Made in the mid-90s, it looks forward to 2007(!) and predicts that Boston has become a quarantine zone. Curious that the cop cars have "Policia" written on them, and all but a few central characters look hispanic, plus the streets do not look typically american - they are narrow, they twist and turn, and there are lots of old buildings. I didn't catch the location of the shoot in the closing credits, but assume somewhere in Europe or even South America.
Henstridge is the lead character. I liked her in "Species" (what red-blooded male wouldn't!) and also in "The Whole Nine Yards", but here she moves away from self-assured characters to play a rookie cop (3 months on the job) feeling out of her depth trying to chase down a murderer. Chase is exactly what the movie is about - don't expect anything else once the introductory rubbish is out of the way.
Lambert is represented as a kind of hero cop. He comes to the rescue when Henstridge calls for backup at the beginning of the chase (understandably - her partner has just been decapitated). He usefully arrives with not one partner but two (special privilege for hero cops?) to make the new crew up to a foursome.
So the chase is on, highlights are Lambert falling down a shaft for maybe 10 seconds before hitting bottom without breaking a bone, and Lambert and one of the other cops taking numerous gunshot wounds. I think the other cop had a vest on, but Lambert had definitely discarded his, yet he staggers out at the end with some support from Henstridge.
As per the other review below, the video quality is poor. There are some weird camera moves - some I'm sure are intended with special lenses or post-production tampering (but I found them irritating) while others just create blur by panning too fast and are almost nauseating.
Actually 'nauseating' is a pretty good description for the movie as a whole. I can't fault the acting - Lambert and Henstridge give their all but won't have had any control over the final production.
For fans of Lambert I recommend at least the first two "Highlander" movies, the first "Fortress" movie (2nd is not too bad), "Hunted", "Gunmen" and the excellent "Resurrection". I'm sure there are other good movies of his too, but "Adrenalin: Fear the Rush" is unfortunately not one of them.
Opening credits are interspersed with low quality TV news footage and voiceover that would sound more at home on 1960's "Time Machine". Made in the mid-90s, it looks forward to 2007(!) and predicts that Boston has become a quarantine zone. Curious that the cop cars have "Policia" written on them, and all but a few central characters look hispanic, plus the streets do not look typically american - they are narrow, they twist and turn, and there are lots of old buildings. I didn't catch the location of the shoot in the closing credits, but assume somewhere in Europe or even South America.
Henstridge is the lead character. I liked her in "Species" (what red-blooded male wouldn't!) and also in "The Whole Nine Yards", but here she moves away from self-assured characters to play a rookie cop (3 months on the job) feeling out of her depth trying to chase down a murderer. Chase is exactly what the movie is about - don't expect anything else once the introductory rubbish is out of the way.
Lambert is represented as a kind of hero cop. He comes to the rescue when Henstridge calls for backup at the beginning of the chase (understandably - her partner has just been decapitated). He usefully arrives with not one partner but two (special privilege for hero cops?) to make the new crew up to a foursome.
So the chase is on, highlights are Lambert falling down a shaft for maybe 10 seconds before hitting bottom without breaking a bone, and Lambert and one of the other cops taking numerous gunshot wounds. I think the other cop had a vest on, but Lambert had definitely discarded his, yet he staggers out at the end with some support from Henstridge.
As per the other review below, the video quality is poor. There are some weird camera moves - some I'm sure are intended with special lenses or post-production tampering (but I found them irritating) while others just create blur by panning too fast and are almost nauseating.
Actually 'nauseating' is a pretty good description for the movie as a whole. I can't fault the acting - Lambert and Henstridge give their all but won't have had any control over the final production.
For fans of Lambert I recommend at least the first two "Highlander" movies, the first "Fortress" movie (2nd is not too bad), "Hunted", "Gunmen" and the excellent "Resurrection". I'm sure there are other good movies of his too, but "Adrenalin: Fear the Rush" is unfortunately not one of them.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
A FILM ABOUT A VIRAL INFECTION THAT IS MAINLY CENTRE ON ONE PERSON,WHICH SEEMS TO HAVE TURNED HIM INTO A ZOMBIE LIKE CREATURE.TO FAST PACED WITH NOT ENOUGH STORY ATTACHED TO IT,AND THE ACTING IS NONE TO CLEVER.QUICK GLIMPSES OF GORE.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
The film is not really a good action movie. It looks like a low budget production, but because of the fact, that it has some elements from a cop movie and when you like Christopher Lambert or Mr. Species, than you can watch it.
The DVD itself is disappointing, bad quality!
The DVD itself is disappointing, bad quality!
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