TIMEBOMB

TIMEBOMB. Avi Nesher, dir., script. USA: Dino De Laurentiis Productions (prod.) / MGM (dist.), 1990/1991. Raffaella de Laurentiis, prod. "A Raffaella Production." Michael Biehn, Patsy Kensit, stars.

Politically interesting recombinant film using formulas from THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (1962) and other deep-cover assassin films, plus The Terminator (q.v. above); relevant here for a motif from J. Haldeman's All My Sins Remembered (q.v. under Fiction): conditioning of a secret agent in a high-tech tank that emphatically superimposes the mechanical and electronic upon the human. Note also holograms during the conditioning and clockwork imagery at the start of the film.