空虚时光

　　这部动作片讲述了尼克 (Casper Van Dien) 和里克 (Sean Patrick Flanery) 这对昔日搭档的故事。他们曾是无坚不摧的杀手，直到尼克睡了里克的女朋友。多年后，一位新犯罪头目桑尼·吉尔 (Parmish Verma) 崛起，主宰了他们的犯罪世界。他们以前的老大说服他们放下恩怨，再次联手完成一桩任务，酬金为 500 万美元。尽管过去有嫌隙，为了拿到报酬，他们还是暂时搁置了分歧。然而，如果他们不想先死于内斗，就必须控制好自己的情绪。

　　经过多年的共同生活，亚历克斯和苔丝最终和平地结束了他们的婚姻，也由此开启了一个尴尬的阶段：他们开始摸索如何在各自独立生活的同时，抚养两个儿子，并维持彼此的友谊。亚历克斯发现了自己新的爱好，投身于喜剧表演之中，而苔丝则开始直面自己为家庭做出的牺牲。本片根据英国著名喜剧演员约翰·毕晓普的人生经历改编。

　　伊利亚·伍德将主演犯罪题材惊悚片[无主之人](No Man Of God，暂译)。Amber Sealey执导，C·罗伯特·嘉吉([险恶])操刀剧本。影片设定在一个单独的审讯室中，故事根据FBI心理分析师比尔·哈格迈尔(伍德饰)与连环杀手邦迪于1984年至1989年之间的对话文字摘录改编，影片将详细介绍邦迪在死囚牢房最后几年间，两人之间复杂的关系。

　　Set in an underground dungeon inhabited by bundled, ragged human beings, after the nuclear holocaust. The story follows the wanderings of a hero through the situations of survival. People wait for the Ark to arrive and rescue them while their habitat falls apart.　　Delving deep into the dusty and long abandonded vaults of b-cinema in search of lost gems always leaves me with a bittersweet taste. On one hand the discovery of unexpected gems where no one would think them possible is a rewarding experience. On the other hand though it makes one wonder how many of these remarkable low-budget oddities, personal love affairs of directors never quite famous and now all but forgotten, have almost forever slipped from memory?　　n any case what we have here is a little post-apocalyptic gem from Poland that is really better than it has any right to. The dystopian near future of O-BI, O-BA finds a group of survivors of the nuclear war that ravaged the Earth inhabiting an underworld concrete bunker and biding their time as they wait for the mysterious Ark, an air ship of some kind that will come and save them. The Ark proves to be an elaborate hoax, carefully designed to give hope to the malnourished and desperate denizens of the bunker, while in the meantime the dome that separates their miserable existence from the nuclear winter outside is slowly caving in.　　What first striked me about the movie is the design of the bunker and the depiction of the survivors. The survivors are gaunt, filthy and terrible-looking penitents, dressed in rags and aimlessly wandering the neon-lit halls of the bunker like automatons. The bunker is a rundown, seedy place, with bright neon lights peering from all sides like the eyes of malignant beasts.　　On one hand it is a slightly 80's depiction of the dystopian future but the movie never stoops down to MAD MAX cheese. Instead it combines biting political satire with the bleak outlook of a world with no future, black comedy with barbs on apathy, religion and power. The survivors, for example, are fed some kind of flour dropping from a tube that hovers in the air - later on we discover the food supervisor uses books and the Bible itself as filler for this meagre meal. There are many such short symbolic touches, perhaps not life-changing or faith-restoring, yet playful, clever and inspired.　　One thing is for sure; O-BI, O-BA is not your run-of-the-mill sci-fi schlock. It overcomes its modest budget with creativity and has genuine artistic aspirations both from a writing and directing perspective. My opinion is that it should have been filmed in black and white instead of colour though. The director uses atmospheric light and shadow to great effect and it would have registered even better in stark black and white. The blue-green neon on the other hand outstays its welcome after a while. Just a minor gripe in an otherwise solid b-movie with its heart set in all the right places.　　Imagine a less bleak THE ROAD (Cormac McCarthy) being injected with the satire and humour of DR.STRANGELOVE and you're getting there. See it if you can find it.