Blue Flame (1993)
3/10
Not even what I just watched.
18 August 2023
Warning: Spoilers
I had no clue what was going on. The story was confusing and didn't make much sense at all. The acting was pretty bad. Everyone acts stiff and weird. It's hard to take anything they say or do seriously. Even Kerri Greene can't help this film. Nothing but sheer head scratching.

The story is basically a guy trying to find his missing who was kidnapped by two aliens "rain" and "fire" who are hell bent on tormenting him mentally. There's an android named Jack, who later helps him. Most of the time, he's just walking up and down a rough area and a few abandoned buildings and aside from weird dialogue, that's pretty much it.

That's also when things get bizarre.

The movie's already strange and laughable from the start, but as he gets closer to solving the mystery, it only leaves even more questions unanswered, and many of them are just ridiculous. I don't remember much, and maybe that's a good thing. It's pretty forgettable.

The dialogue is clunky, is has everything you'd hear from a typically bad low-budget 80/90's movie. When the characters try to explain their logic, it just raises so many eyebrows. How did his daughter rapidly age, why don't they pick someone else? Why didn't he kill them? Stuff like that is just so mind boggling, all you can do is laugh.

The characters are pretty weird too. I know it's an apocalyptic sci-fi movie, but I still couldn't get into it. The main guy, a former cop, is hard to take seriously at times. Rain is always horny, even when there's no reason to be. Apparently his daughter learned that from her too. He must've went to a gay bar in one scene, because I kid you not, the owner and bartender are wearing a dress and chains. It's actually pretty funny.

The settings aren't that interesting. His mind and dreams are kind've cool, but the editing is so random that it's hard to follow. It cuts quickly before you can grasp what's going on.

Since this's a bad movie, I'll just tell you the ending: he gets his daughter back after she goes back in time to kill Fire. This's after he's reunited with his wife on a beach. I know that he says goodbye to his grownup daughter but what happens between those two scenes, I forgot. And frankly, that's ok. Not worth revisiting.

This movie had an interesting idea, but man, it done so poorly. I'm not sure what the director had in mind, or what he was going through, but this was a hazy, even trippy experience. So far, this's his only directing credit. As for Green, her recent film is Complacent. The rest of the actors, I don't know what else they do.

If you want something you can laugh at and/or get high with, this's for you. Anyone wanting a good or at least decent sci-fi film will have to look elsewhere. This isn't worth the journey.
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