It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

This film is not for everyone and I completely understand those who will not like it because this is not an analytical film filled with easter eggs of messages pertaining to social importance, apart from maybe its apocalyptic theme. Rather it is kind of "fast food" cinema. However these are the kind of films that can be very fun to watch. It also holds some nostalgic content for me because I saw it as an impressionable teenager. At that time I was into action, sci-fi, horror and comedy films. This film attempts to blend them together and does a good enough job, especially if you are the kind of person who can just sit back with your popcorn and enjoy the movie, than you are capable of enjoying this film.Yes it has a bunch of components which were prevalent in this type of genre at the time. One-liners, a buddy cop relationship, action and a bit of comedy, and of course BIG F***ING GUNS. I'm not embarrassed to say I enjoyed it. Rutger Hauer provides a good performance as the unstable yet admirable lead character who functions on "anxiety, coffee and chocolate". Yet another cliché as he is unwillingly partnered with Dick Durkin, from the moment you hear his name you know that he is there to provide some comedic relief as the pair track down "The Scorpio Killer" who Rutger's character Harley Stone seems to have a unique connection with. He and Durkin work together to bring down the killer who turns out to be much more than they imagined. The film has some memorable and stand out actors in the supporting cast such as Kim Cattrall, Pete Postlethwaite and Alun Armstrong. The latter providing one of my most favorite moments in the film when he snaps and exclaims "What do I do? Put out an APB on the devil? answers to the name of Lucifer?" The way he delivers it is quite priceless. The antagonist also provides a very real threat level and kept somewhat obscure as to the motives and patterns involved, until quite late in the film which helps to keep you engaged. All in all a quite predictable but enjoyable film.

The 1992 futuristic sci-fi/horror detective-noir picture "Split Second" is a "B"-movie that I grew up watching in the early 1990s with my dear late mother, who for one reason or another had a thing for these sorts of low-budget, many-times straight-to-video/straight-to-TV "B"-movie-type pictures. I grew up on these movies, which is why I can freely say that I "get" them better than most people who are mostly accustomed to "mainstream" movie fare.Today, I watched "Split Second" for the first time in many years, and I was surprised to find that the movie is much, much better than I remember it. It's a fun, darkly humorous, and occasionally gripping and suspenseful sci-fi/horror detective-noir story that doesn't take itself too seriously."Split Second" is set in London in the then-future 2008, after "40 days and 40 nights of torrential rainfall" have left the city half-submerged under several feet of water; global warming has only exacerbated the problem. In the midst of all this, is American expatriate homicide detective "Harley" Stone (Rutger Hauer, the villainous android "replicant" Roy Batty in "Blade Runner"), and he's on the trail of a cannibalistic serial killer who rips out the hearts of his victims. This same serial killer is also responsible for the still-as-of-yet-unsolved murder of Stone's partner from three years earlier, and Stone subsequently had an affair with his partner's American widow Michelle (Kim Cattrall), before he disappeared and went underground.Paranoid, on-edge, heavily armed, suffering from anxiety neurosis and sustaining himself on an unhealthy diet of coffee and chocolate, Stone is an outcast amongst his fellow native English-born police officers. This is precisely why, when the killer mysteriously resurfaces after a long absence to continue his seemingly-ritualistic murder spree, Stone is then partnered up with the Oxford-educated Detective Dick Durkin (Neil Duncan), who provides some comic relief but also provides some valuable insights into the killer's psychology.To make long stories short, Stone and Durkin uncover shocking evidence that suggests that this killer isn't human, and they're right. After several close encounters with this killer, there's only one thing that they know for sure: They're Going To Need Bigger Guns. (Yeah, who can forget the line: "We need big guns, big f**king guns!" It's a perfectly believable reaction for when Our Heroes finally see what it is that they're up against.)Competently directed by Tony Maylam and written by Gary Scott Thompson, "Split Second" has many things going for it, including its appropriately bleak and doom-&-gloom depiction of a flooded, rat-infested London in the then-future 2008; and the fact that this then-futuristic London is a perfect breeding ground for a serial killer who may not be human to go on a rampage that has its origins in the occult. This supernatural angle to what could have been a straight-forward "B"-movie sci-fi/horror picture gives it a little bit of extra flair that makes it stand out from other movies of this sort - even if "Split Second" never fully rises above its "B"-movie roots.The film is surprisingly competently acted, too, especially by Rutger Hauer, even if most people today only know him as the thoughtful, yet violent, semi-psychotic villain from "Blade Runner," which this movie takes more than a few of its production and set design ideas from, as well as "Alien" (1979); is it a coincidence that Hauer appeared in "Blade Runner," and that it, and "Alien," were both directed by Ridley Scott?I'm thankful for "Split Second" taking me on a trip down memory lane from the early 1990s.7/10

I didn't know what to really expect with this movie, I'm not a massive Rutger Hauer fan, but I've seen a few of his works and have enjoyed all of them I have seen. The plot sounded familiar (however, as it turns out, it was very different than what I thought), so I expected to see a run-of-the-mill action horror movie. I was surprised though, I found myself enjoying it more than I had expected.In the future (2008), global warming has caused rising sea levels and flooding of the cities. Harley is a psychic detective on the hunt for some one (or something) that had killed his last partner. He is lead to a club where a girl gets her heart ripped out. The police chief has Harley work with Dick Durkin, a more "by the books" detective, and the two are lead into an apartment type area where another murder has taken place. The killer left behind a memento, Harley's last partner's gun. They find a clue on the ceiling, a Scorpio astral sign. This leads them to looking about the occult and the astrology. They continue tracking down the killer, who strikes every new moon when the tide rises. DNA tests reveal that the thing has the DNA of all its victims, as well as Harley's. Dick believes that the thing captures the DNA and soul of its victims, similar to how primitive tribes believes they gained courage from eating the hearts of their victims. As they continue tracking it down, they find a body with a similar sign carved into its body as in the beginning. They use this as a map to track the thing down into the sewers where it dwells. As the two make their way through the sewers they come face to face with the creature. A Xenomorph-esque type creature that prowls under the water. Harley blasts at it with a big gun that resembles a minigun, and Dick uses a big explosive to blow away the subway the creature is in. However, it is still alive, so Harley grabs a bunch of electrical wires, and they shock the water. It still isn't dead! Harley and the thing grapple and wrestle for a moment, and then Harley rips it's heart out. The three (Harley's old partner's widow was being held hostage) ride off at the end.This movie was pretty enjoyable, I liked the plot and thought the occult and astrology elements as well as the creature stealing the DNA of its victims was a nice touch and pretty fresh for this type of movie. The special effects were well done, but weren't as abundant as I expected. The sound effects, especially for that minigun thing were very cheesy and laughable. The creature was pretty generic, but effective nonetheless. There were a lot of clichés in this, and some of them were laughably bad, however, that didn't really take away anything from this movie. Rutger Hauer stole the show here, his character, Harley, was an enjoyable tough guy, and some of his witty retorts were genuinely funny. Alastair Duncan was enjoyable as Dick Durkin, it was great seeing him at the end go to a cold, hard killer, who handled his own when face to face with the thing. Overall, a pretty enjoyable experience, warrants repeated viewings, would recommend to any '80s action or horror fan.

Hauer is a great antihero, the mood is dark and hopeless, the monster is quite funny, and there are enough jokes and enough tension to keep you fascinated also nice is that no one cares to exactly explain what or who that monster is, providing the movie with a bit of mysterythis movie works more like alien or seven, or maybe even blade runner - on the psychological level, do not expect it to be action loaded, but enjoy the darkness and tension insidea great plus point for the movie is that they didn't make a sequel. i guess they had no money for it, but still great - most movies do not benefit from a second partso as i already said - i loved it, but i can see that not everyone will still - give it a try