984: PRISONER OF THE FUTURE(1982)
In the set: 100 Greatest Sci-Fi Classics
Long and boring! D
From a reviewer at IMDb.com:
Successful executive Tom Weston (Stephen Markle)
is taken to a high security detention centre,
accused of being in cahoots with a group of
rich businessmen dedicated to toppling current
ruling regime The Movement, whose leader Dr.
Fontaine (Andrew Foot) seeks to punish the
rich and powerful for past indiscretions
and recondition them for life in his 'new
world'. Weston continually denies his
involvement, even after undergoing torture,
but although the warden (Don Francks)
secretly believes that his prisoner is
innocent, he has his own reason for
continuing with his sadistic game.
Directed by Tibor Takacs, the man who gave
us entertaining 80s popcorn horrors The
Gate (1987) and I, Madman (1989), this
dystopian made-for-TV sci-fi has a cool
central idea that might have been extremely
effective as a half hour episode of a Twilight
Zone-style series, but doesn't work as well
stretched out over 76 minutes. Alternating
between flashbacks and confrontations between
prisoner and warden, the story becomes
frustratingly repetitive, and the final
revelation—which proves to be such a shock
for Weston—is far too easy to guess for
anyone paying the slightest bit of attention.
4 out of 10, rounded up to 5 for the hilarious
roller-skating robot guards. - BA_Harrison
Stephen Markle ... Tom Weston / 984
Don Francks ... The Warden
Stan Wilson ... Jeffries
David Clement ... Roland
Gail Dahms-Bonine ... Maya (as Gail Dahms)
Michele Chicoine ... Margaret (as Michelle Chicoine)
William Binney ... Baxter
Jay Macdonald ... Collins
George Murray ... Armstrong / 1170
Ken Lemaire ... Mr. Vick (as Ken Le Maire)
Madeleine Atkinson ... Secretary (as Madelaine Atkinson)
Andrew Foot ... Dr. Fontaine
Andy Adoch ... Keeper Robot (as Andy Adach)
Ed Valiunas ... Keeper Robot (as Edward Valiunas)
Keith McClean ... Movement Worker
Robert Everton ... Movement Worker
John Paul Young ... #38 (voice) (as Paul Young)
Robert A. Silverman ... Prisoner (as Robert Silverman)
Chris Lumiere ... Prisoner
Barry Edmondson ... Prisoner
Richard Hardy ... Prisoner
Nuke Yee ... Prisoner
Morgan Jones ... Prisoner
Philip Rowly ... Prisoner
Bill Edwards ... Prisoner
George Hevenor ... Prisoner
William Goodswan ... Prisoner
John Jurens ... Prisoner
Leigh Booth ... Prisoner
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