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Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is Rob Lamb.

And this is Joe McCormick.

And today on Weird House, we're going to be talking about the 1991 sci-fi action movie, Future Kick, starring kickboxing champion, Don the Dragon Wilson, Meg Foster, and Chris Penn.

Interesting cast list there.

Now, if you have to look this movie up because you've never seen it or even heard about it, that wouldn't be a surprising scenario.

And the first thing you see in Google results is an exact copy of the poster for James Cameron's Terminator, but with Don the Dragon Wilson's head and upper body replacing Arnold Schwarzenegger's, you might ask yourself, is this movie low-budget direct-to-video trash financed by Roger Corman to scavenge off the recent success of gritty R-rated sci-fi action hits like Terminator,

Robocop, and Total Recall. The answer is yes, it is that, but that's not all it is. Future Kick

is both an interesting specimen to dissect if you want to study the anatomy of the cyberpunk

tech noir subgenre subgenre of the early 90s, more on that in a bit.

But Future Kick is also genuinely a hoot. There is, in my opinion, an absolutely delicious

DGAF quality that is palpable in the creative decisions here. Sometimes this makes the movie

confusing and difficult to follow. Sometimes it makes

inspired set pieces like the film's energy weapon-based blood sport. I think it was called Laserblade,

which despite what you might assume from that description, is a table game. Imagine a cross

between hungry, hungry hippos and Russian roulette,

but with lasers.

Yeah.

Also leaves you with questions,

which characters are robots?

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