Dark Angel (1990)

Jack Caine (Dolph Lundgren) is a Houston vice cop who's forgotten the rule book. His self-appointed mission is to stop the drugs trade and the number one supplier Victor Manning. Whilst involved in an undercover operation to entrap Victor Manning, his partner gets killed, and a sinister newcomer enters the scene... Along with F.B.I. agent Lawrence Smith, the two investigate a spate of mysterious deaths; normal non-junkies dying of massive heroin overdoses and bearing the same horrific puncture marks on the forehead. This, coupled with Caine's own evidence, indicates an alien force is present on the streets of Houston, killing and gathering stocks of a rare drug found only in the brain... Caine is used to fighting the toughest of criminals, but up to now they've all been human. Dark Angel or I Come in Peace is a 90's underrated action/thriller film starring Dolph Lundgren and i gotta say this film surprised me a lot it had a pretty cool villain who was very interesting, Lundgren was pretty cool and the film has a pretty cool ending fight sequence it's not one of the best action films from the 90's but it's really one of the most underrated ones of that time.

Wow. I have never seen a movie about an alien who says he 'comes in peace' but really doesn't cause every person he meets he shoots up with heroin then extracts the resulting dopamine which is some kind of super-heroin for his race which, despite having perfected interstellar travel and little CDs that home in on people and cut their heads off, cannot seem to recreate such a drug.Oh well! But then, I suppose if they could we wouldn't have got this awesome movie!Dolph Lundgren IS the character he plays, whatever his name is.The alien dude IS the alien dude.Plus Dolph gets this big gun from ANOTHER alien, who is a good guy and like an alien cop or something cause he's chasing the bad alien.And the thing Dolph says when he kills the bad alien at the end is the best thing ever written oh my god in hell.16/08

Dark Angel (1990) ** 1/2 (out of 4) Tough cop Jack Caine (Dolph Lundgren) is forced to team up with a FBI agent (Brian Benben) after a series of bizarre murders. It turns out that an alien has come to Earth with a plan for some heroin.DARK ANGEL is a science fiction movie that certainly shouldn't be confused with 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. If you need your sci-fi to be high art then you'll want to avoid this film but if you're a fan of mindless action then you'll find this gem to be highly entertaining. This is exactly what you'd expect a low-budget action movie from this period to be like.The best thing going for this film is its camp value as there are quite a few scenes that are rather hilarious. One such example is the acting of Lundgren. Yes, the big guy is fun to watch but he certainly wasn't a very good actor and this can be seen in his attempts at being serious or romantic. The murder weapon is basically a CD mixed with the weapon from PHANTASM and it really makes for some violent fun.Lundgren and Benben have some nice chemistry together and certainly make their cop-buddy thing work. The action scenes certainly show their budget limits but they too are entertaining. DARK ANGEL isn't a masterpiece by any stretch of the imagination but it's fun for fans of the genre.

My guess is that Dolph Lundgren had surrounded himself in the late 80's with people that would groom him into the new Arnie. He snatched the first muscle-man role that became available, playing He-Man for Menahem Golan. He did the whole secret services commando fights evil thing. I believe this was conceived as his Terminator.The rudimentary backbone per the buddy cop model, then immensely popular, is of course unorthodox cop paired with nerdy FBI guy to expose sinister conspiracy. If you thought the concept of New World Order being heralded in Cobra by a biker gang of dumb grunts was ridiculous, how about a ring of international bankers operating a drug racket? How about yuppies attending a corporate meeting with their CEO each with his handgun? And how about a car chase through busy streets with our posh but criminal yuppies shooting semi-automatics in broad daylight from their Ferrari?And that is not even the most ridiculous aspect here. What lends the film its reputation by far, is drug dealers from outer space harvesting endorphins from human hosts.The element of white-eyed aliens blasting their way through Houston, TX, of course permits a final boss that has near-unlimited hit points and can deliver tremendous damage on the human scale with peculiar weaponry, including a contraption that launches razor-sharp discs hunting for human electric loads.Why this is not Terminator or even Cobra, beyond obvious problems with scripting, explains why Dolph never made it on the scale of Arnie or Sly. Those guys had the ability to deliver both the macho persona and self-aware winks to the audience. Their cool was a way of making it seem as if they were both delivering their cheesy lines and being next to you on your couch laughing about it together.Dolph is just a hunk, a square. He has a pool table on his bachelor pad and knows about wine. Cobra's place was a mess and he cut pizza leftovers using a pair of scissors.