Split Second 1992

This one wasn’t half as bad as I remembered it due to a tongue in cheek performance by the late Rutger Hauer but it’s still a stinker!

A troubled production with only 8 weeks of actual filming in London (only 3 weeks of pre-production) at the long gone Hartley’s Jam factory by Tower Bridge,the film effectively portrays a futuristic water logged London over run by Rats.

Can you believe the original music score by the legendary composer Wendy Carlos (A Clockwork Orange ) was rejected by the producers and replaced by a bland synth score!!

The early nineties nightclub scenes horribly date the film and you can even spot the word ACID scrawled onto a wall outside the nightclub.

Singer/actor Ian Dury is great as the dodgy nightclub owner with an every present Rottweiler dog by his side.

Kim Cattrall’s love interest part is totally underwritten and she seems to be there just to provide some gratuitous nudity in a shower scene.

Watch out for blink and you miss them cameo’s by Ray Winston and wannabe pop singer singer Tasty Tim billed as a Transvestite in the end credits.

The ending seems horribly tagged on to please the action crowd at the time and was infact filmed by another English director Ian Sharp ( Who Dares Wins )

As the original director Tony Maylem ( The Burning ) had to leave the production early due to stress.

This R rated versions appears a lot more gorier than the cut version we had in the UK on VHS.

A most watchable 92 mins of nonsense indeed!!