HANDS OF STEEL (1986)

HANDS OF STEEL (1986)

Staring Daniel Green, (who was pretty buff in his day and actually has stayed in acting, with a movie coming out next year) this movie centers around a malfunctioned android. He was designed to kill the leader of an ecological group, but decided, “screw that”. So then he makes the decision to hang out in Arizona (because where else would you go) and hide out at bar that has an extra room to stay in. Paco, (the android) pretty much immediately intimidates all the dudes in the area with his macho-ness. So he ends up having to protect his new landlord/friend Linda, from these clowns. Not literal clowns, like in KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE, but clowns as in “mean jerks”.

Anyway the agency that made Paco pretty much wants to take him back or kill him because he cost like $15 bucks to make, and he’s so macho they can’t handle it. So they are hunting him down, and we have that to contend with as well. So here is where I feel like something is fishy. TERMINATOR came out just 2 years earlier with about the opposite premise and time travel, but TERMINATOR 2 was essentially the same premise as HANDS OF STEEL only again, with time travel thrown in. The ideas in both these films were expanded upon in I ROBOT asking the questions where the line between man and machine are drawn. What makes up right and wrong? And finally the nature and consequence of  true AI.

HANDS OF STEEL however just isn’t all that deep and even though the ending is pretty cool, it doesn’t bring this one to the standard, or levels of the other films mentioned. It doesn’t however, make this a bad movie by any means. It’s actually quite an interesting and sometimes cheesy action romp in the world of sci-fi making it worth checking out. It’s also not shot, totally in the dark which is a plus. I think it’s actually available on YouTube right now. I give this one a 4 out of 7.

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