I Come in Peace [VHS]

I Come in Peace [VHS]
by Craig R. Baxley

I Come in Peace [VHS]

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Actor: Betsy Brantley, Brian Benben, Dolph Lundgren, Jay Bilas, Matthias Hues
Director: Craig R. Baxley
Producer: David Saunders
Producer: Jeff Young
Producer: Jon Turtle
Producer: Mark Damon
Producer: Rafael Eisenman
Writer: Jonathan Tydor
Writer: Leonard Maas Jr.
Edition: VHS Tape
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
Running Time: 91 minutes
Release Date: 1997-09-10
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Publisher: Starz / Anchor Bay
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay

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Movie Review: This is your brain on drugs - this is the scary alien come to suck out your brain matter
Summary: 4 Stars

I yanked this off my ancient, dusty VHS pile the other day and once again was reminded of the fun content in this flick. I don't know whether I COME IN PEACE (a.k.a. DARK ANGEL) has a cult following or not but, by gum, it's deserving of one. I think that the notion of pairing up muscly Dolph Lundgren with stuffed shirt Brian Benben borders on the inspired. And then there's the wacky premise, which borrows some from The Hidden and is also sort of a brawnier, less kinky version of Liquid Sky. Check this, a drug-trafficking extraterrestrial (a properly menacing Matthias Hues) swoops down to planet Earth and goes on a killing spree, injecting his victims with heroin and then extracting endorphins from their brain matter, with the heroin boosting the endorphins into highly potent narcotics. And, oh yeah, most times, the guy introduces himself to his targets by remarking: "I come in peace." Which turns out to be a long-winded set-up for Lundgren's one-liner in the climactic showdown.

Dolph Lundgren plays a maverick Houston vice cop who reluctantly teams up with a tightly wound, by-the-books FBI agent (Benben) to go after the yuppie drug lords who murdered his partner. This sets the stage for the expected buddy cop bickering and posturing, and that's fine because the dichotomy between these two diametrically opposed personalities is pretty enjoyable. But if Brian Benben's smug character - who obviously suffers from tiny man Napoleon's syndrome - doesn't soon grate on your last nerve, then you, pal, are a saint. The saving grace, though, is that Benben is able to make his FBI guy likable enough that you don't actively loathe him. Still, I couldn't help but feel a sense of self-satisfaction when his FBI supervisor gives him the "Can't make an omelet without breaking eggs" speech.

It eventually dawns on the pair that seriously wonky stuff is going down, and that their real enemy might be this mean, murderous, giant space alien. There's also this space alien cop lurking about, but his presence is almost perfunctory even if his hair is even more ghastly than the bad guy alien's. The film serves up a heaping plate of explosions, car chases, and gun fights. Note the coroner-slash-neglected token love interest, the spazzy lab tech who seems to exist on a perennial caffeine high, an FBI cover-up, and then back it all up with a synth score that'll stick you in a time warp back to the late 1980s.

Of all the alien weaponry unveiled, the murderous vibrating CD has to be the craziest (and check out the killer CD-cam), although I do dig the clunky overkill of a gun which 'splodes things. This movie ranks several tiers below THE TERMINATOR and Dolph Lundgren makes for a poor man's Arnold Schwarzenegger (the Lundgrenator?), but this is Lundgren's stab at a sci-fi action thriller, back in 1990. I COME IN PEACE is an unassuming B-movie and it is droll, campy fun. It doesn't take itself too seriously, and that makes it a likable film; in its tongue-in-cheek approach, it reminds me a bit of Dead Heat (Divimax Special Edition), a cop movie which features good guy zombie cops. For my money, this really is one of Dolph Lundgren's more entertaining outings, right up there with Universal Soldier (Special Edition) and Showdown in Little Tokyo.

Movie Review: Dark Angel
Summary: 1 Stars

this movie is also called "I come in peace". you can find it on vhs tape. But has not been released on dvd yet.I Come in Peace [VHS]

Movie Review: Looking for the DVD
Summary: 5 Stars

I seen the movie in the early 1990's.Wish I could buy it on dvd.Like everyone said it is a good movie and will keep you interrested in it until the end.
I notice there is VHS tapes of the movie but,$65.00 for a new tape,and a used tape for about $7.00 which has no guarantee.I like the movie but I don't think I'll ever pay $65.00 for it.
Maybe one day it will be on DVD.Till then I'll kept my eyes open.

Movie Review: Dark Angel (aka "I Come In Peace")
Summary: 4 Stars

This is one of the scariest and funniest movies Dolph Lundgren ever did. I enjoy it immensely and I'm disappointed to see it so expensive and hard to get. I hope a Blu-ray version comes out as this movie did not get the exposure it should have during it's release Christmas of 1990. I am kind of surprised so few have heard of this SciFi with aliens coming to Earth. Police detectives Lundgren and Benben try to figure out what exactly they are doing after some drug dealers and civilians are murdered. At a drug dealers they find several dead bodies and a unusual sharp metal CD stuck to a speaker magnet. The guy they take it to for analysis at the university looks like he has been drinking Jolt and taking amphetamines. The whole movie has a mix of good SciFi drama and comedy. I had never seen Lundgren in a comedy before and this was a nice change of pace. It reminds me of how "Twins" made a difference in Arnold Scwharzenegger's career. Great quality DVD with plenty of replayability. If you enjoyed this, catch Split Second.

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Movie Review: "And You Go In Pieces"
Summary: 3 Stars

Essentially, "I Come In Peace" (aka "Dark Angel") is a great idea that was only moderately well exectued. With the exception of appearing in a religious drama, this is probably the strangest vehicle for action hero Dolph Lundgren to get himself over, and to some degree, the Swedish Superman makes it work, but even along with the passing performances of the rest of the cast and a pretty original bad guy, "Peace" ends up being forgettable due to its uninspired pacing and overall lack of action.

Jack Caine (Lundgren, Universal Soldier) is a vice cop who's earned himself notoriety for doing things his way, much to the dislike of the department. After being assigned a by-the-book partner whom he frequently finds himself at odds with (Brian Benben, Radioland Murders), Caine's personal war on Houston's drug cartel takes a twist when a new player on the street turns out to be a seven-foot alien who's killing innocents by way of massive heroin overdoses. Threatened by underground entities of two different worlds. Caine must watch his back at all times as he attempts to overcome an enemy who no one else believes exists.

Consider the movie a combination of Lethal Weapon and The Terminator - buddy-cop flick meets sci-fi action package. The premise gets even more absurd as the story progresses, as you find out why the alien - armed with a machine pistol and an wrist-mounted razor disc - is on his killing spree, but if you can keep from being too uptight, through the power of Dolph you'll never really feel the need to question why or how all of this is happening. "Interstellar drug war? - why not?"

But while the movie has the right approach to its story, it has exceedingly little action to back it up. An uninspired car chase and a couple of short shootouts (albeit with big explosions) couldn't keep me entertained while I waited for the eventual, passable confrontation between Dolph and the alien (played by B-movie veteran Matthias Hues, No Retreat No Surrender 2 [VHS]). I kept waiting for a decent martial arts showdown or a gunfight using the alien technology, but neither comes through satisfyingly enough. Seeing as keeping violence out of the movie wasn't the issue here (spike through the forehead, anybody?), I really can't figure out why the movie lacks the thrills the way it does.

The way I see it, "I Come In Peace" has little reason to stay on my shelf: as an action movie, it's lacking; as a sci-fi film, it's too asinine; and as anything else, it's a debacle. While Lundgren has done worse, both he and director Craig Storm of the Century Baxley have done better. It's a bit disappointing to see such obvious creativity be left obsolete by the lack of other essentials...but what the heck: I never liked Dolph with brown hair, anyway.

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