环太平洋

　　在外太空探险的美国“天鹅号”太空船，由冷酷严峻的蓝刻博士领导，他有著一个狂妄的科学计画，正阴谋进行中，机缘巧遇的“天鹅号”找到了宇宙最神秘的禁地——黑洞，他们不顾一切的闯入，经历了人类前所未有的冒险历程。

　　泛消费公司已完全掌控了底特律市之后，与日本金光财团合作组建OCP，在底特律开发三角洲城，并招揽雇佣兵组成暴力改建队，驱逐居民，相当数量的拆迁地居民为捍卫家园组成武装力量反抗财阀的不义计划，女童妮科（Remy Ryan Hernandez 饰）凭借高超的电脑技术在反抗军中表现抢眼。机器战警墨菲（Robert John Burke 饰）与老搭档路易斯执行任务期间偶然发现了居民们的藏身地点，出于正义感，墨菲同随后赶到的改建队交火，机体损坏严重，路易斯不幸身亡，墨菲决定加入反抗军。同时日本方面为执行拆迁计划派出特工忍者雄志，改建队头目亦利用反抗军中的叛徒查到了反抗总部。在妮科的帮助下，墨菲被拉瑟斯博士整修完备，汇同不齿改建队暴力行径而选择站到居民一边的底特律警察们，同雄志、改建队展开最后决战。

　　一个被称为“火把”（尚格·云顿 Jean-Claude Van Damme 饰）的变态杀手的出现让西雅图市市民陷入了恐慌之中，作为负责此案的警官，杰克（迈克尔·鲁克 Michael Rooker 饰）和其搭档安吉（凯瑟琳·丹特 Catherine Dent 饰）对杀手进行了长时间的追击，几经交手后，虽然“火把”负伤，但还是逃之夭夭。
　　杰克的退休日眼看就要来临，虽然案件没有水落石出，但他还是决定放下手中的一切，安享闲散生活，而就在这个节骨眼上，杰克得知了“火把”的下一个目标竟然就是自己的母亲的惊人消息。利用“火把”的DNA，政府将“火把”克隆了出来，根据克隆人的思维模式来推测真正的“火把”的行动规律。虽然克隆“火把”并不邪恶，但深藏在他基因中的犯罪基因却像一个定时炸弹般随时都要爆发。在双重威胁中，杰克能够获得最终的胜利吗？

　　Set in an underground dungeon inhabited by bundled, ragged human beings, after the nuclear holocaust. The story follows the wanderings of a hero through the situations of survival. People wait for the Ark to arrive and rescue them while their habitat falls apart.
　　Delving deep into the dusty and long abandonded vaults of b-cinema in search of lost gems always leaves me with a bittersweet taste. On one hand the discovery of unexpected gems where no one would think them possible is a rewarding experience. On the other hand though it makes one wonder how many of these remarkable low-budget oddities, personal love affairs of directors never quite famous and now all but forgotten, have almost forever slipped from memory?
　　n any case what we have here is a little post-apocalyptic gem from Poland that is really better than it has any right to. The dystopian near future of O-BI, O-BA finds a group of survivors of the nuclear war that ravaged the Earth inhabiting an underworld concrete bunker and biding their time as they wait for the mysterious Ark, an air ship of some kind that will come and save them. The Ark proves to be an elaborate hoax, carefully designed to give hope to the malnourished and desperate denizens of the bunker, while in the meantime the dome that separates their miserable existence from the nuclear winter outside is slowly caving in.
　　What first striked me about the movie is the design of the bunker and the depiction of the survivors. The survivors are gaunt, filthy and terrible-looking penitents, dressed in rags and aimlessly wandering the neon-lit halls of the bunker like automatons. The bunker is a rundown, seedy place, with bright neon lights peering from all sides like the eyes of malignant beasts.
　　On one hand it is a slightly 80's depiction of the dystopian future but the movie never stoops down to MAD MAX cheese. Instead it combines biting political satire with the bleak outlook of a world with no future, black comedy with barbs on apathy, religion and power. The survivors, for example, are fed some kind of flour dropping from a tube that hovers in the air - later on we discover the food supervisor uses books and the Bible itself as filler for this meagre meal. There are many such short symbolic touches, perhaps not life-changing or faith-restoring, yet playful, clever and inspired.
　　One thing is for sure O-BI, O-BA is not your run-of-the-mill sci-fi schlock. It overcomes its modest budget with creativity and has genuine artistic aspirations both from a writing and directing perspective. My opinion is that it should have been filmed in black and white instead of colour though. The director uses atmospheric light and shadow to great effect and it would have registered even better in stark black and white. The blue-green neon on the other hand outstays its welcome after a while. Just a minor gripe in an otherwise solid b-movie with its heart set in all the right places.
　　Imagine a less bleak THE ROAD (Cormac McCarthy) being injected with the satire and humour of DR.STRANGELOVE and you're getting there. See it if you can find it.