Timebomb (1991)

Posted on by Mark Cole

This one was awfully familiar.

We’ve seen it all before, the perfect secret agent produced by a Jason Bourne/Clockwork Orange brainwashing.  And on the whole it is a fairly good if familiar film.

What distinguishes this one is the curious technique used in the brainwashing:  the hero (played by Michael Biehn), who thinks he’s watch repairman Eddy Kay, lies in a special glass-topped pod and watches these huge 3-D images which float in the air above his high-tech coffin.

Okay, it is impressive as a visual, and it does let the audience see what he is seeing.  But it leaves you wondering how those evil military types spent their grant money.  Hey guys, try projecting it on the glass next time.  Just saying.  And no need to bother with the 3-D stuff, either.

Just saying.

 

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Mark Cole hates writing bios. Despite many efforts he has never written one he likes, perhaps because there are many other things he'd rather be writing. He writes from Warren, Pennsylvania, where he has managed to avoid writing about himself for both newspaper and magazine articles. His musings on Science Fiction have appeared in Clarkesworld and at IROSF.com, while his most recent story, "Finale" appeared in Daily Science Fiction.