Adrenalin: Fear the Rush

1996
R
1h 17m

IMDb RATING

3.8/10

3.9K

YOUR RATING

Natasha Henstridge and Christopher Lambert in Adrenalin: Fear the Rush (1996)

Action Sci-Fi Thriller

A bioweapon leaks in Eastern Europe and spreads west. It mutates in a quarantine area, creating a killer monster. Can a group of cops stop it and the new virus?A bioweapon leaks in Eastern Europe and spreads west. It mutates in a quarantine area, creating a killer monster. Can a group of cops stop it and the new virus?A bioweapon leaks in Eastern Europe and spreads west. It mutates in a quarantine area, creating a killer monster. Can a group of cops stop it and the new virus?

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IMDb RATING

3.8/10

3.9K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
Several versions of the film are in distribution. The official US version is 76 minutes long. There is a European/UK (Polygram) version that is 102 minutes long. Director/writer Albert Pyun has said in interviews he intends to restore and release a 110 minutes Director's Cut restoration of the film. This version is set entirely in Romania and has only a minor virus aspect in its plot.

Quotes
[first lines]
Delon: No one saw it coming. We were all looking out for big things. A nuclear accident, another Chernobyl... As the Russian republic split apart, no one knew who was responsible for what. While they were trying to figure it out, something leaked, something small. It rolled through eastern Europe moving west like a giant wave of death. They called it virulent microphage.
Title Card: Boston 2007 A.D.
Delon: When the United States saw the potential for the disease on its home shores, it put the recent immigrant population into quarantine camps. My husband Martin was one of those immigrants, so we interred with the rest of the masses. It was only supposed to be for a few months, but by the time Martin was killed our baby was a young boy, and the camp had become his home. There were two worlds, the sick, and the healthy. No one wants in, and no one gets out.

Alternate versions
German Video-Version (ratio 4:3) runs much longer than the US-Release (R-Rated) but is finally not uncut. German TV-Version ist also cut but does not contain the same cuts like the Video-Release. The full uncut version was running on Pay-TV in it's original ratio 1:2.35

Connections
Referenced in Adjust Your Tracking (2013)

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Featured review

3/10

No adrenaline. No rush. Nothing to fear.

This feels like movie that was dubbed into English from the original Linear A. Adrenaline was surely a mistranslation. The word they were looking for was "Don't".

Lambert and Henstridge are competent actors. They have earned themselves a better film than this. There are plot holes you can fly the space shuttle through. Enough continuity errors for a drinking game. The production crew should have waited for the gaffer to return from vacation before filming. And vampires. Vampires! How original.

Three stars for Lambert and Henstridge doing their best to turn nothing into something. Zero stars for the nothing they had to work with.

Three stars.