The emergency-room patient, who looks like a derelict but turns out to be an anthropologist, is bleeding profusely and babbling in French. Before he expires, he infects the attending physician, so to speak, with his most recent memories. These are an awful legacy. The man has encountered something far more savage in Los Angeles than in all his studies in the field: a sort of Hell's Angels incarnation of an ancient Eskimo myth (and a stellar group they are, too: Adam Ant, Josie Cotton, Mary Woronov). The division of the action into two time planes is a structural weakness. Most of the effort to drum up suspense is concentrated in the past, but we already know how that turns out. The present is almost an afterthought. Interest is sustained anyway, however, by sheer intensity of style. With Lesley-Anne Down and Pierce Brosnan; written and directed by John McTiernan. (1986) — Duncan Shepherd
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