FILM REVIEW
SPLIT SECOND ; ‘- 4 ellorts to emulate their US counterparts -‘ | (by swearing a lot, mainly) is latally
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The Bill.
In this makeshift world, Butger Hauer plays Harley Stone, a kind oi international Mad Max, out to avenge the death at his partner who was done in by a mysterious serial killer. Stone’s Iilestyle is made so rigorously squalid - junk tood, little round shades, chopper-bike parked in the lounge- that when, at one point, he opens his lridge to lind a dripping human heart nestling within, It's no real surprise.
Split Second manages to be
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it had already won rave reviews and Em” Em”: “mam” "° P"‘°""""°" typically Touchstone done good business in the US. -try not to start giggling, lor instance, ending with all Chicnsn Accusations that the powers-that-be during the scene where our lresh-taced l honklng for Shlflcc '8" I were trying deliberater to ignore a lilm hero tries to sew up his ioreskin -that , ‘EE'IT‘D? blgw “00‘- that dealt with the uncomiortable you’d never get away with in a work of ~ ( ' ° N“) , - aspects 01 recent history inevitably llctlon. Unless your name’s Mel , Straight Talk (PG) . 9‘ ,T lollowed; but so lar as this viewer is Brooks, that Is. (Trevor Johnston) : $3905“; Killgwt, U5» "um. Bmh (15) An finds her integrity concerned, Europa Europa is certainly Europe Europa (15) (Agnleska Holland, l W001“. ‘aglmlegzvn Australian phow compromised. Sadly no prizewinner. By turns stodglly France/Germany, 1991) Marco mm Glasgow Cannon journalist (0mm Scacchi) uninvoiving melodrama narrated and lust plain absurd, the tllm Hotschnelder, Julie Delpy, Halina I The page. 0&0” sets out to expose me that many doesnvt uses the ‘Based on a true story' caption Labonarska. 112 mins. From Sun 14: ; Edinbmh, 0,180” plight of the Vietnamese understand its subject to excuse all manner oi unbelievable Glasgow Film Theatre, Edinburgh ) Strathclyde; Odwn A on Boat People, but soon matter at all. coincidences and laughable situations FlImhouse. ; All UCIs. '
16The List5— 18June 1992