Monster of the Day #1260

Updated on December 21, 2015 By Ken Begg 21 Comments

Although released in 1990, this is an ’80s action movie deep in its DNA. The villains are evil and monstrous, the kind of guys who after a heist blow up the entire building behind them to remove witnesses. Dolph Lundren is a cop on the edge with died black hair, which amounts to his characterization. He’s teamed up with a (get ready for it) by the book straight-laced FBI agent, played by Brian Benben because it was 1990. Benben was mostly known for getting to see a lot of actresses naked because he starred in an HBO series.

Anyhoo, it turns out that one of the drug dealers Lundgren is after is a towering alien who had an admittedly neat motive behind his deprivations on Earth. Plus, the film takes place at Christmas!

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  • kgb_san_diego

    Wow — I had never even HEARD of this little beauty… On my watch list!

  • Beckoning Chasm

    Is this “I Come In Peace”?

  • bgbear_rnh

    So, a re-make of “Santa Clause Conquers the Martians” ?

  • Eric Hinkle

    By the description it sounds more like, “I’ll Leave You In Pieces.”

  • bgbear_rnh

    or “Try Hard”.

  • Carl Eusebius

    Hel-LO, spoilers!

  • sandra

    That looks like Lucius Malfoy after being cruciatused.

  • Flangepart

    Edger Winter’s hair gets a movie gig.

  • Yes it is.

  • Ericb

    and it really seemed that they just threw a dart on a board covered with a bunch of cool sounding titles for all it had to do with the plot

  • ericb

    Damn, I’m getting old, I don’t remember for sure but I think I actually saw this one in a theater when I first came out.

  • The Rev.

    I’ve seen a couple of movies with Matthias Hues here recently (just one of those weird things). While he’s not great, it turns out he can actually act when allowed to; which was more than I would have expected based on this, the only substansial role I’d seen him in up to that point.
    I’d suggest this for our Christmas movie, but I don’t think anyone else would go for it, even though I’m certain none of them have seen it. Besides, I’m already going to suggest the greatest Christmas movie ever: Die Hard.

  • Rock Baker

    I really need to see this one.

  • CaptNemo

    So these are the guys who are giving ” the probe” to the people’s of the earth.

    I believe it!

  • kgb_san_diego

    Apparently also called “Dark Angel”, which at least bears SOME resemblance to the plot. I am guessing “I come in peace” was some producer’s invention?

  • Ken_Begg

    The alien always says that to people, presumably to catch them off guard, or maybe he’s just puckish.

  • Ken_Begg

    Not really. The alien is in the first scene, and the exploding building follows soon after.

    I’ll admit that revealing the hero is a cop on a edge partnered with a by the book suit is a major spoiler.

  • bgbear_rnh

    don’t mention the chief that yells at our hero a lot and call him a “loose cannon”

  • Beckoning Chasm

    So it’s not one of those aliens-learn-about-humans-from-television things?

  • Ken_Begg

    I can’t remember it that well, as I saw it in the theater back in the day. It’s certainly possible.

  • Carl Eusebius

    I meant Eric’s comment. It’s been 20 years since I saw this, but I do believe Dolph says a riff on that line just before he kills the bad guy (oops, sorry).