Dollman

[Grace Saunders]

Suddenly, Tim Thomerson has become one of my favourite actors. If you haven't heard of him, you could be forgiven... He's not actually that famous (depending on what you think).

Hello all. I am Peter from Edinburgh, and I wish to talk about this great film I have repeatedly watched since I got the DVD. It's called DOLLMAN. Why's it called Dollman? All will become clear in a moment.

First of all, Tim Thomerson is well known for playing Jack Deth in the Trancers film series, but he hasn't really been noticed for anything other than that. But there is one character that comes pretty close to being his second finest hour, and that's Brick Bardo...

Brick is a cop from a faraway planet called Arturos and it's full of crime and the mayor really dislikes Brick because he's too good at what he does. Brick chases this criminal head thingie across the galaxy and ends up on Earth, where he is the size of an Action Man. On Earth, he has to protect a woman and her child from dangerous gangsters in the Bronx, and the police are useless. Brick has a gun which can blow people to pieces on his own planet, but still do significent damage to humans too.

Due to the low budget, there are hardly any scenes where Dollman appears on screen with other people. The camera is usually only focused on one person at a time, or they use trick effects to make the characters seem bigger. However, this film has good action in it, and it's also quite funny. Think of Dollman as being a one foot Dirty Harry and that's basically who Brick Bardo is.

There was only one official sequel ever made, and it was Dollman vs. Demonic Toys... It was actually a sequel to two other movies as well. But I did not think it was as good as the original Dollman. It was only on for an hour and the plot was kind of stupid. Really, really stupid.

I mean, the evil toys looked absolutely retarded in the scenes where they had to fight with Dollman, because they put actors in costumes in order to make it look authentic. In the scenes without Dollman or the nurse, they used puppets.

I think you'll like these movies if you have a high tolerance for cheese like I do. But you have to remember that movies are purely fictional and should not be bashed rotten because they are just movies after all. I've learned not to get on my high horse when a movie turns out crap. Unless it's Uwe Boll. Then I'll have nothing nice to say.

Pete.