Tuesday, May 4, 2021

'Hands of Steel' (1986) - Sergio Martino.

Forged from the fearlessly fertile mind of inventive Giallo master, Sergio Martino comes one of his most beloved B-action bonanzas! Handsome, steely-eyed super-cyborg assassin, Paco Queruak (Daniel Green) is tasked by conniving CEO, Francis Turner (John Saxon) to assassinate blind, ecologically astute scientist, and pseudo-messiah Rev. Arthur Mosely (Franco Fantasia). This morally righteous political agitator poses a clear and present threat to the malign tycoon's dystopian regime. Turner's insidious plan goes awry when the increasingly querulous Queruak rebels against his core programming. The steel-fisted saviour is understandably smitten by the kindly, exquisitely beautiful diner proprietor, Linda (Janet Agren) who takes an equally plausible shine to the manfully muscular mandroid!

In the equally sinewy grip of dynamic genre filmmaker, Sergio Martino what could have been another forgettable, robotically routine Terminator clone is in actuality a high wattage, bicep bulgingly brilliant Sci-fi slug-fest! Hardwired with blistering bouts of sinew-snapping arm wrestling, concrete-crashing, Cyborg-on-Cyborg beatdowns, and barnstormingly ballistic overkill! Sergio Martino's gripping 'Hands of Steel' excitingly delivers a winning knock-out punch of hard-boiled romance, skull-fracturing fisticuffs, and anatomically advanced, gun-crazy mayhem! All of this deliciously diode destroying Cybernetic carnage is electrified by the Bionic beats of music maestro, Claudio Simonetti's fuse-poppingly funky score!

 


 
















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