You know, this isn’t that bad. Well, except the soundtrack is awful, and the fights aren’t choreographed very well, and Jesse Ventura is terrible. Besides all that, it’s not bad!
Decent idea and the villain is appropriately evil and threatening. (Him taking kids hostage in a school is particularly uncomfortable nowadays, not that it ever was.) Schwarzenegger was supposedly going to be Abraxas, but turned it down to do T2. I’m thankful that he did for multiple reasons. We got a damn fine movie in T2, and we didn’t have the villain AND the hero going around with their Danish (Thorson) and Austrian (Schwarzenegger) accents.
Though I do think Arnold would have helped THIS film a bit.
Abraxas, Guardian of the Universe
An adventure across time and space
Rating
2.0 (1)
Release Date
12/18/1990Runtime
90 minsGenres
Overview
An alien policeman comes to Earth to hunt down a renegade of his own race.
Status
ReleasedOriginal Language
EnglishBudget
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How It Feels
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A gloriously low-budget sci-fi romp where an alien cop chases a villain across Earth with maximum earnestness and minimum plausibility. Pure B-movie charm powered by commitment and practical ingenuity.
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PowerJustice
Tone
Earnest
Pacing
Brisk
Look
Practical effectsStylized genre
Structure
Linear
Jesse Ventura
Abraxas
Sven-Ole Thorsen
Secundus
Damian Lee
Dar
Jerry Levitan
Hite
Marjorie Bransfield
Sonia Murray
Ken Quinn
Carl
Marilyn Lightstone
Abraxas' Answer Box (voice)
Moses Znaimer
Secundus' Answer Box (voice)
Robert Nasmith
Sonia's Father
Kris Michaels
Sonia's Mother
Layne Coleman
Registry Clerk
Francis Mitchell
Tommy Murray
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