Night Siege
Night Siege: Project Shadowchaser II
Night Siege: Project: Shadowchaser 2
Project Shadowchaser 2
Project Shadowchaser II
Project Shadowchaser: Night Siege
Shadowchaser 2
Shadowchaser II
Shadowchaser: Night Siege
Cazador de Sombras II [Spanish]
Etat de Siège [French]
L'Ombra del Cacciatore [Italian]
Le Projet Shadow Chaser 2 [French]
Pelotão Assassino [Portuguese]
Piège de Nuit [French]
Piège de Nuit 2 [French]
Proiect: Cobra II [Romanian]
Projet Romulus 2 [French]
Prosjekt Cobra [Norwegian]
Tagline(s):
Part Man. Part Machine. Pure Killer.
Nomination Year: 1995
SYNOPSIS:
A female scientist and her son are trapped in her high-tech workplace by a group of terrorists who are out to steal the nuclear bomb stored there. Fortunately, she's helped by the janitor, who also happens to be an expert kickboxer. Unfortunately, the leader of the terrorists turns out to be a literal killing machine--an unstoppable android with artificial intelligence (much like the rest of the cast in that regard).
They might as well have named this movie Try Hard, since it wants to be Die Hard SO badly: Clever terrorist takeover of a building... Evil hacker trying to crack into a vault... The baddies' motives are not what they seem... Protagonist and hot lady trapped inside... They have a touching relationship with a cop on the outside via walkie-talkie... Oh, did I mention it's Christmastime?
Now add a Terminator who looks like Duke Nukem...
Bryan Cassidy
Smithee Award Nominations
Worst Special Effect
Must've Been a Cyborg-Seeking Missile
The male hero of the film (the janitor at the top-secret facility where all this takes place) is trying to escape the complex before it self-destructs. He's hanging from a helicopter by a rope-ladder above an open missile silo. But unfortunately, the evil cyborg has followed, and grabs the janitor's foot. They struggle in front of one of the most egregious uses of the blue-screen technique that I've ever seen. Meanwhile, an Army attack chopper has been ordered to fire a missile and destroy the complex. The janitor finally knocks the cyborg off the rope-ladder. With superb cinematic timing, the cyborg falls (another terrible blue-screen event), and is impaled by the missile. Then the complex begins to self-destruct, and as the helicopter pulls away, we are treated to the janitor's continued climb up the rope ladder against a clearly blue-screened backdrop of fire and explosions (!).
"WHAT?!"
They Should've Made Him an Alien Cyborg
Okay, it's bad enough that a clever bunch of terrorists has taken over the complex, but suddenly, it turns out that the leader is a cyborg! We don't find out right away, mind you--it's from out of the blue, more than halfway through the film. The first proof that the guy isn't just some swole badass is an internal display (a la Terminator) that identifies a closed locket as containing the missing voice-recognition chip--at the 59:11 mark.
But you know, I wondered why the super-ripped terrorist leader went around with his shirt off all the time, and spoke in a vaguely Ahnold-esque cadence...
Played Rocco Carner on "The Bold and the Beautiful"
and Grady Jameson on "Street Justice." Trained in
Hun Gar Kung Fu and Muay Thai (the
martial art, not the drink).
The original "Anna Sheridan" on Babylon
5, before the role was taken over by
Bruce Boxleitner's wife. Played Tracey Lawton
on "Dallas" and Hope Adams Wilson on "The Young
and the Restless."