Omega Doom / Blind Fury
A Rutger Hauer Double Feature
Blind Fury
He's Lucky He Can't See What He's Up Against!
Blinded and left to die in Vietnam, Nick Parker (Rutger Hauer) has been missing in action for more than two decades. Finally home, he sets out to find and forgive his old Army buddy, Frank Deveraux (Terrance O'Quinn).
Forced to cook up designer drugs for a corrupt casino boss, Deveraux balks, putting his ex-wife and son in danger. Caught in the middle and with henchmen in close pursuit, Nick uses his highly tuned senses to escape in an action-packed cross-country battle.
Omega Doom
Robots Rule The Earth. Only One Man Can Stop Them.
In the post-apocalyptic world that is Earth, machines rule. Having killed off their human adversaries, the Roms and the Droids have squared off against one another in the search for mankind's last and most fatal element of war: guns.
When Omega Doom (Rutger Hauer) strides into the fray, the machines hone in on the stranger and the slaughter intensifies. As combatants are decimated and the survivors get closer to the mythical stash of guns, the question becomes, "Will there be anything left to kill?"
Member Reviews
Perfect and pretty darned good! - 213468280576
Bind Fury? I am tempted to say it is the PERFECT adventure movie. California as a town in Viet Nam or Laos... yes! Most delightful, the Mong villagers teach the blind soldier to sword fight rather then the monks in some dojo of a Budhist temple. The village scenes actual have some depth and feeling and that is the credit sequence and set up!!!
Then the movie starts... a frumpy homeless middle aged and blind Rutger Hauer just kicks butt on the Schwarzenegger or any of the other squeaky clean pretty boy action heroes. A perfect action movie.
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Omega Doom... what guts! No money for battle scenes for the prologue? Shoot Rutger Hauer standing in a pile of Serbs in old WWII uniforma against a fire sky blue screen. Your film is set in California but are shooting in Bratislava? Put up a sign saying you are in "Ol' Europe Town" at a California amusement park. Brilliant.
The second string supporting actors were awful but man, the pretty girls with New Wave hair-dos? So very very fine. Tina Conte is just amazing to look at. I would watch her welcome me to the Burger King family in a training film with delight.
Rutger Hauer... Man! he was working even the steam of his breath in the outdoor scenes. All the principal actors were great. Taking the roles quite seriously... but Hauer can play even a man completely amused with what is going on around him with dead earnestness.
A film like this is simple but I find them very nice to look at. The directors use of wide and uncorrected lenses is total eye candy...
That these characters are all androids, that they drink tiny glasses of water at the bar, totally cool. I love when a director is just consumed by his vision and answers doesn't seem to answer to a team of studio reps - that is why small budget pictures are great.The good and the Bad - XTRUClerk
Okay, forget Omega doom. Ignored Omega doom. Don't even think about Omega Doom! Just treat this as if it were a single movie disk (I believe it's been reissued that way, with a much nicer cover, so maybe you should look for that version instead if you plan to buy). Just flip the disk over and watch Blind Fury, one of the best action movies of all time! Okay, a little hyperbole, but well deserved. This one exudes cool. Rudger Haur play a blind ninja for crying out loud! How cool is that? Need cooler? He has a fight with Sho Koshugi, remember him, famous for Enter the Ninja, Exit the Ninja, the Ninja Eats Shushi... Okay, I'm being silly here, but he was in a lot, maybe all, of the ninja movies from the 80s and this may be his single greatest moment on film (other than the time he faced off against Robocop anyway). So rent this DVD, ignore Omega Doom, Rudger Hauer at his worst (which is saying a lot) and watch Blind Fury, Rudger at his best (also saying a lot) and cheer for Sho Koshugi... Even if he is the bad guy... And have fun. For another great and improbably blind-man action flick, have a look (no pun intended) at blind heroes, there's Blind Justice, a western with Armand Assante as a blind gunslinger, The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi, for a more tradional blind-swordsman story, or even Once Upon a Time in Mexico for Johnny Depp's turn at wielding guns without use of his eyes... Oh yes, believe it or not there are actually quite a few of these kinds of movies, good and bad. Cheers.
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Perfect and pretty darned good! - 213468280576
Bind Fury? I am tempted to say it is the PERFECT adventure movie. California as a town in Viet Nam or Laos... yes! Most delightful, the Mong villagers teach the blind soldier to sword fight rather then the monks in some dojo of a Budhist temple. The village ...The good and the Bad - XTRUClerk
Okay, forget Omega doom. Ignored Omega doom. Don't even think about Omega Doom! Just treat this as if it were a single movie disk (I believe it's been reissued that way, with a much nicer cover, so maybe you should look for that version instead if you plan ...