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- 1990
- R
- Millimeter Films
- 1 h 34 m
- 1990
- R
- Millimeter Films
- 1 h 34 m
Summary The head of a cyborg reactivates, rebuilds itself, and goes on a violent rampage in a space marine's girlfriend's apartment.
Directed By: Richard Stanley
Written By: Steve MacManus, Kevin O'Neill, Michael Fallon, Richard Stanley
- 1990
- R
- Millimeter Films
- 1 h 34 m
- 1990
- R
- Millimeter Films
- 1 h 34 m
Hardware
41
6.0
Summary The head of a cyborg reactivates, rebuilds itself, and goes on a violent rampage in a space marine's girlfriend's apartment.
Directed By: Richard Stanley
Written By: Steve MacManus, Kevin O'Neill, Michael Fallon, Richard Stanley
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 18 Critic Reviews
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28% Positive
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33% Mixed
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6 Reviews
39% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 18 Critic Reviews
41
28% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
33% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
39% Negative
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
Hardware is the best nuclear-radiation twisted-metal jubilee since Mad Max. [05 Oct 1990, p.11]
The first half of Hardware has it all - sly camerawork, eerie score, nasty sense of humor, genuine tension. For 40 minutes it feels as if it could follow in the steps of Blade Runner, Alien" or Road Warrior. Unfortunately, that leaves the second half: a Japanese monster-movie homage that's a fiasco. [14 Sep 1990, p.22]
Although billed as a sci-fi film, HARDWARE is unquestionably a horror. In his calculated enthusiasm to shock, first-time writer-director Richard Stanley has filled the screen with gratuitous violence and psychosexual perversion but failed to present a plausible, reasonably coherent plot.
The chief trouble with Hardware is that it doesn't seem to contribute anything uniquely its own to the genre, although it works hard dismembering bodies and otherwise crushing and tearing them apart with its circular saw and drill-bit arms after homing in on them with its ruby laser eyes. [14 Sep 1990, p.40p]
First-time director/writer Richard Stanley hammers together chunks from films past to form a clunky horror show that never rises to the level of its source material. [14 Sep 1990, p.4D]
Hardware isn’t long on ideas, emotions or character; it degenerates into a mindless slaughterhouse crescendo.
Hardware is a sci-fi-horror film of such dopiness that it seems certain to become a cult classic somewhere. Movies that are so insistently silly often have the effect of seeming to expand the mind after midnight, which may have something to do with metabolism if not with controlled substances.
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Awards
Fantasporto
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film (BIFFF)
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
