Turbo
Kid 8/10
This
will have spoilers. Months ago someone at work suggested this movie
to me after we all got into a conversation about the Nintendo Power
Glove. He said that there was this movie called Turbo Kid where the
kid had a Power Glove on. Sadly, that was all it took to get me
interested in the movie. This came out in 2015 and like Kung Fury,
which everyone should watch on Youtube, is made and designed to be
very 80's based. It stars Munro Chambers as this kid that lives alone
in the post-apocalyptic world of 1997. I don't recall that being said
in the film but Wikipedia says its so. He pretty much just dicks
around the wasteland collecting trash and trading it in for water. No
one has gasoline so they all travel on bikes, even the hard ass bad
guys.
One
day while reading a comic called Turbo Rider a girl comes out of
nowhere. She seems batshit crazy and very nonchalantly leaves a dead
body that she was hanging out with. She is perpetually happy. Her
name is Apple and she is played by Laurence Leboeuf. She slaps a
device on his wrist and he leaves her behind. She tracks him back to
his place and he gets used to her crazy ass and they hang out. She
gets captured one day and he runs away and lands inside the hatch of
the real Turbo Rider vehicle and he gets the uniform and glove. He
goes to rescue her at the Pool Party which is an empty swimming pool
where the bad guy has folks killed and they turn their bodies into
water. Its gross.
The
bad guy is Zeus played by Michael Ironside. He's a dick. You find out
that years ago he killed the kids parents with the help of his
henchman Skeletron which is an awesome name. There is also this
cowboy named Frederick that helps the kid after Zeus cut his hand
off. This movie was strange as hell, bloody as all fuck, and very
entertaining. Not even close to a kids film unless you have one of
those kids that is super fucked in the head. This is on Netflix so I
am sure I'll watch it again.
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