Split Second

Name: Split Second
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Released: May 1, 1992
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 26
Cast: Alastair Duncan, Alun Armstrong, Ian Dury, Kim Cattrall, Michael J. Pollard

1992

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Victor Films | Release Date: May 1, 1992 | R

Starring: Alastair Duncan, Alun Armstrong, Ian Dury, Kim Cattrall, Michael J. Pollard, Pete Postlethwaite, Roberta Eaton, Rutger Hauer, Steven Hartley, Tony Steedman

Summary: In a flooded future London, Detective Harley Stone (Rutger Hauer) hunts a serial killer who murdered his partner, and has haunted him ever since. He soon discovers what he is hunting might not be human.

Director: Tony Maylam

Genre(s): Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Horror, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 90 min

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TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

Very fast-paced, SPLIT SECOND is an example of the men-versus-monster genre, with a British setting providing a fresh twist. Read full review

Johanna Steinmetz

While entertaining and often genuinely frightening, thanks to a remorsefully blue cast to the cinematography, this thick stew can be tough to swallow under Tony Maylam's bumpy direction. [3 May 1992, p.C7]

Empire William Thomas

As a throwaway 80's B-movie you could do much worse. Hauer, as is his way, plays the rough and silent type, this time a cop with Scot Duncan as his partner. There is enough gore, monsters and violence to satisfy but a good plot is sadly lacking and worst of all, they even managed to make Kim Catrall look unattractive. Read full review

Marc Savlov

Split Second turns out to be one of those dreaded “so-bad-it's-good” debacles, and a marginal one at that. Ed Wood, where are you when we need you? Read full review

Lawrence Cohn

Split Second is an extremely stupid monster film, boasting enough violence and special effects to satisfy less-discriminating vid fans. Read full review

Stephen Holden

Within the genre of supernatural thrillers, Split Second is fairly dull. Mr. Hauer's Stone is an expressionless, unsympathetic lug who grunts his lines in a near monotone that sometimes becomes unintelligble in the movie's muffled soundtrack. The film is so desperate to create tingles that poor Miss Cattrall has to endure two protracted nude scenes -- one in a shower, the other in a bathtub -- in which she is menaced. Neither is especially spine-tingling. Read full review

Chris Willman

It’s hard to think of a less satisfying creature feature in recent memory than the simply terrible Split Second, which by the end not only has allowed few glimpses of the beast in question but hasn’t even explained where the big guy came from or what kind of animus, supernatural or otherwise, is responsible for its strange m.o. It’s a monstrous cheat. Read full review

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Spookyfoxxx

Mar 25, 2023

An eccentric loner detective, Harley Stone (Rutger Hauer),teams up with his new straight-laced partner, Dick Durkin, to take down a vicious heart-ripping predatory monster. In a flooded future London, Detective Stone hunts a serial killer who murdered his partner, and has haunted him everAn eccentric loner detective, Harley Stone (Rutger Hauer),teams up with his new straight-laced partner, Dick Durkin, to take down a vicious heart-ripping predatory monster. In a flooded future London, Detective Stone hunts a serial killer who murdered his partner, and has haunted him ever since. He soon discovers what he is hunting might not be human. Director Tony Mayham keeps the enjoyably absurd story zipping along at a snappy pace, generates a good deal of tension, stages the exciting action with flair, and delivers a satisfying serving of bloody splatter along with some tasty gratuitous female nudity. Moreover, this movie further benefits not only from a sharp and wickedly amusing sense of self-mocking humor, but also a spot-on giddy'n'pulpy sensibility that cuts right to the chase with a refreshing dearth of pretense. Hauer and Duncan make for a delightful mismatched duo; they receive sturdy support from Kim Cattrall as the spunky Michelle McLaine. A fun flick.… Expand

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clem666

Nov 2, 2022

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Yeah you definitely captured that 'so bad it's good' vibe.
This movie is a terrible effort to tell a story we already have heard a thousand times before. This pseudo-investigation that concludes itself by an 'it's not a human, it's a monster' so-called plot twist is just dreadful.
Music (excepted the one used in the ending credits) is lame, lighting is terrific, shots are bad, some whole sequences are impossible to understand, characters suddenly change their personnalities in the middle of nothing, women are objects all along, weapons are made in plastic, the focus is non-existent on some shots.
The environment looks great at the beginning but is so under-exploited it's a shame. What does global warming have to do with anything we see after the first scene ? Acting is just bad. The scenario doesn't know where it is going. The ending is really disappointing and unsatisfying. It bring more questions than actual answers to the major mess we've just witnessed. Action scenes are expeditive.
Thanks for nothing.… Expand

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