#Split Second

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SPLIT SECOND (1992) dir. Tony Maylam

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Split Second (1992) dir. Tony Maylam & Ian Sharp

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A nuclear blast, a good bad girl and a bad good girl, a heroic newspaper man, tragic runaway convicts, the last dregs of the wild west- Split Second (1953) takes every idea in film noir off the shelf and sees what comes of it. The setup is implausible, but at a breakneck pace and in a desperate mood, we can buy it- criminals, including one slowly dying of a gunshot wound, take a group of hostages and bring them to a ghost town where an atomic test is scheduled to happen. The convicts don't really care if they get caught in the blast, but the hostages sure do. And then a grizzled prospector wanders onto the scene.

It's not science fiction- such tests really happened, and the radiation slowly killed many people who worked on them- but it's all about dangerous technology. If Kiss Me Deadly showed the worrying mystery of nuclear science, Split Second shows our fear once we already know what it can do. It works very well as a thriller, because we don't need to be convinced of the danger- we know that every moment anyone stays put takes them closer to apocalyptic destruction.

It's not quite a lost masterpiece, but I'm very glad I saw Split Second, and if you're interested in lesser-known noir, I advocate checking it out. Certainly if you've played any Fallout game (or watched the show), this is essential viewing.

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The Alien by Yasushi Nirasawa...with a special appearance by the monster from Split Second up in the corner there.

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The commentary track for 1990s scifi horror flick Split Second is the last place I would have expected to randomly hear someone comment that Ruby Rose just stepped down from playing Batwoman.

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tetchou you and your strong belief system will always be special to me

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Split Second (1971)

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🎃Some obscure spooky with Rutger Hauer as Harley Stone from the movie Split Second. 🎨📽️

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Split Second (1992), an uneven but highly entertaining film where Rutger Hauer plays a troubled detective on the hunt for a supernatural serial killer. Stylish, grim, and set in a future wrecked by global warming. Really fun performance from Hauer too.

[forthegothicheroine]

New-to-me movies seen in 2024: Split Second (1953)

"Once you've seen one atom bomb, you've seen them all."

The Big Noirvember: Any film noir on your watchlist

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Upper playfield for Stern's Split Second pinball table.

📸 source: Pinside

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Split Second - David Baldacci | A Book Review

Split Second - David Baldacci | A Book Review #BookReview #MysteryThriller

Title: Split Second Author: David Baldacci Genre: Mystery Thriller About the book: It’s the first book in the Sean King and Michelle Maxwell series. Eight years ago, Sean looked away for a moment, and the candidate he was protecting got killed. When Michelle, a Secret Service agent, lets a presidential candidate out of her sight, he vanishes. The two discredited agents come to realize that these…