EVE OF DESTRUCTION

EVE OF DESTRUCTION. Duncan Gibbins, dir. USA: Orion (release), 1990. Gregory Hines, Renee Soutendijk, Kevin McCarthy, feature players.

Soutendijk doubles as Eve, a Terminator-style robot, and Eve's inventor. Minor film interesting for its conscious attempts at psychology ("The Two Faces of Eve," so to speak) and its probably unconscious sexual politics: robot Eve carries out the destruction of evil men that human Eve sometimes desires. In addition to the TERMINATOR movies, cf. and contrast human and robot Marias in METROPOLIS. Briefly rev. Dan Parsons, Cinefantastique 21.5 (April 1991): 54-55.