Future Force (1989)

Name: Future Force
Genre: Action, Crime, Science Fiction
Released: 1989-02-08
Duration: 84 min
Rating: 3.7
Cast: David Carradine, Robert Tessier, Anna Rapagna, William Zipp, Patrick Culliton

Future Force (1989), directed by David A. Prior, starring David Carradine and Robert Tessier.

02/08/1989 BR Action, Crime and Science Fiction 1h 24m

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Quiz about this movie

Each crime has a price... Each 'criminal' a warning... Each bounty: dead or alive!

Synopsis

In the future, a cop protects a reporter from an organization of crooked, renegade cops who thinks she knows too much about them.

Andrew ParkeCinematography
David A. PriorDirector, Writer
Paul O'BryanEditing
Kimberley CaseyProducer

Future Force/Zone Collection

The franchise in release order. 2 films.

Esquadrão do Futuro 1989 · you are here
Policial do Futuro 1990

About the film

Future Force is a 1989 science-fiction film written and directed by David A. Prior and starring David Carradine. A 1990 sequel to the film was made called Future Zone.

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Future Force is a 1989 science-fiction film written and directed by David A. Prior and starring David Carradine. A 1990 sequel to the film was made called Future Zone.

Synopsis

At some point in the near future (around 1993), law enforcement has become so ineffective that the only real hope for justice is an organization of bounty hunters known as C.O.P.S. (Civilian Operated Police Systems). John Tucker (David Carradine), a Los Angeles bounty hunter sporting a metal arm piece capable of shooting lasers, is hired to protect a woman reporter, Marion Sims (Anna Rapagna), from a gang of renegade cops.

While Tucker is more interested in right defeating wrong than in payment for his services, he has become a bitter, washed up, drunken man due to all the corruption he has seen. Reporter Sims has uncovered proof of the corruption and ineffectiveness of the C.O.P.S system. Unfortunately, the bounty organization is run by a man, Adams, who is also corrupt, and who turns the C.O.P.S organization. Tucker works to save Sims, but many of the bounty hunters from C.O.P.S are after her. When it becomes apparent that Tucker is now helping Sims, a bounty is put on his head as well.

Aiding Tucker and Sims is their ally, Billy, who is a computer genius who utilizes a wheelchair.

Cast

David Carradine as Tucker

Robert Tessier as Becker

Anna Rapagna as Marion

William Zipp as Adams

Patrick Culliton as Grimes

Dawn Wildsmith as Roxanne

D.C. Douglas as Billy

Kimberley Casey as Alicia

Release

Future Force was released direct-to-video in the United States by A.I.P. in November 1989.

Reception and legacy

From contemporary reviews, "Lor." of Variety reviewed the AIP video cassette on November 12, 1989. "Lor." noted that the film "offers some offbeat social commentary in its sci-fi approach to the future of law enforcement" and that the film "is low-tech but scores high in imagination."

Creature Feature gave the movie 2.5 out of five stars, praising the performance of Carradine, but found little else likeable in the film. The film has a score of 14% at Rotten Tomatoes.

The movie was also spoofed by RiffTrax on July 27, 2012.

References

Sources

Lor. (1991). Variety's Film Reviews 1987-1988. Vol. 20. R. R. Bowker. There are no page numbers in this book. ISBN 0-8352-2667-0.

External links

Future Force at IMDb

Text from Future Force (film) on Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Force_(film)

Trivia

It premiered on February 8, 1989, a Wednesday.
It runs 1h24 — short for a feature film.
It is film 1 of 2 in the Future Force/Zone franchise.
This film's quiz has 12 questions — enough to play more than once without repeats.

Production

StudiosAction International Pictures, Winters Hollywood Entertainment Holdings Corporation
CountriesUnited States
LanguagesEnglish
StatusReleased