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Science fiction at its most depressingly vacant and irredeemably perverse, Hardware was one of the worst movies released in 1990. Of all the ways the post-apocalyptic future has been imagined, this is among the most devoid of sunlight and human emotion, which might have been portentous had it been handled skillfully. But director Richard Stanley offers only glimpses of the Mad Max-inspired desert strewn with technological refuse, preferring to spend most of his time on a cat-and-mouse game inside the claustrophobic apartment of the artist (Stacey Travis). That the battle droid she planned to use as raw materials seems intent on raping her is the kind of detail that just leaves the viewer feeling icky. Stanley wants to shock the viewer, but the gut feeling is more of repulsion, directed at anyone and everyone involved in the project. That queasy sensation alternates with laughter at the terrible script and nominal acting. Because Dylan McDermott was still mostly unknown -- and for good reason judging by this performance -- the film's best-known name is Iggy Pop, and he's never even seen, only providing nihilistic rants as the standard bearer for radio DJs of the future. Viewers who walked out of this movie could hardly be blamed; those who stayed surely did so for the head-shaking fascination of seeing what blunder would come next. -- Derek Armstrong
Music video director Richard Stanley made his feature debut with this apocalyptic, post-industrial nightmare set in the distant future. Dylan McDermott stars as Moses "Hard Mo"' Baxter, a washed-up ex-soldier who spends most of his time in "The Zone" -- a scorched, ochre-colored desert littered with the radioactive debris of an unspecified war (or wars). Mo's recent Zone foray with war-buddy Shades (Jon Lynch) turns up an interesting find -- a pile of droid parts he purchases from a spooky "Zone Tripper" (Carl McCoy, frontman for goth-rock's Fields of the Nephilim), which he carts home to his reclusive artist girlfriend Jill (Stacy Travis) to serve as raw material for her latest work. Unbeknownst to them, the dismantled robot is the prototype of a controversial new battle-droid dubbed the Mark 13, which is designed to reassemble itself from available materials if damaged in combat. In short order, the Mark 13 proceeds to do just that, tapping into the power grid in Jill's fortress-like apartment and targeting her for death. -- Cavett Binion