Timebomb (1991)

When someone tries to murder watchmaker Eddy Kay, the incident triggers a barrage of nightmares and flashbacks into a past that isn't his own. Fearing for his sanity, Eddy contacts ... See full summary »

Director:

Avi Nesher

Writer:

Avi Nesher

Stars:

Michael Biehn, Patsy Kensit, Tracy Scoggins

1 win.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Michael Biehn	...	Eddy Kay / Oliver Dykstra
Patsy Kensit	...	Dr. Anna Nolmar
Tracy Scoggins	...	Ms. Blue
Robert Culp	...	Mr. Phillips
Richard Jordan	...	Col. Taylor
Raymond St. Jacques	...	Det. Sanchez
Billy Blanks	...	Mr. Brown
Jim Maniaci	...	Mr. Grey
Steven J. Oliver	...	Mr. Redd
Carlos Palomino	...	Mr. Green
Ray 'Boom Boom' Mancini	...	Mr. Black (as Ray Mancini)
David Arnott	...	Stan
Jeannine Riley	...	Landlady
Sharon Schaffer	...	Woman with Baby
Harvey Fisher	...	Dean Jordan

Storyline

When someone tries to murder watchmaker Eddy Kay, the incident triggers a barrage of nightmares and flashbacks into a past that isn't his own. Fearing for his sanity, Eddy contacts psychiatrist Dr. Anna Nolmar for help. Anna thinks he's hallucinating until another attack proves the dangers are all too real. The two of them go on the run, trying to discover the truth about Eddie's past and true identity before it kills them.

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Plot Keywords:

topless female nudity | full frontal female nudity | sex scene | breast sucking | payphone | 

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Taglines:

Eddy Kay is wired to explode

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Genres:

Action | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for graphic violence, strong sensuality, and for sporadic strong language

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English Hungarian

Release Date:

25 May 1991 (South Korea)

Also Known As:

Nameless

Filming Locations:

Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$6,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$39,026, 27 September 1991, Limited Release

Gross USA:

$64,562

Company Credits

Production Co:

Raffaella Productions,Dino de Laurentiis Communications

Technical Specs

Runtime:

96 min

Sound Mix:

Ultra Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Michael Biehn went through intense military training, some sort of a scaled-down Israeli Defense Forces version of the U.S. Army SEALS' dreaded "Hell Week", which included drawing a gun, cocking and shooting under three seconds. Biehn would wake up every day five o'clock in the morning and train for ten hours. An Israeli psychiatrist also trained the lead actor to express different kinds of anxiety, from mild discomfort to full-fledged attack.

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Goofs

As Eddie leaves Dr. Nolmar's building with her he gets out the elevator and turns to the front door, seeing the men hunting him he turns back. In this short period of time the elevator has delivered her to the basement and returned. The door opens immediately he presses the call button.

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Quotes

Dr. Anna Nolmar: Eddiiiiiiiieee!

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Alternate Versions

German video release by New Vision was edited for violence to secure a "Not under 16" rating.

User Reviews

Never again will common criminals be licensed to act in the name of this country.

**SPOILERS** Living a quiet life in L.A as a mild mannered watch repair man Eddie Kaye, Michael Biehn, one evening becomes Superman when he rushes into a burning apartment building saving a mother and her infant from curtain death.

Eddie doesn't know it but he's really not Eddie Kaye he's Oliver Dykstra and at the same time he was supposed to be dead for years but a person watching the TV news that evening Col. Taylor, Richard Jordan, does. He's was the one who had Oliver brainwashed and given a new name and memory, as Eddie Kaye, and now realizing that he's still alive is responsible for Eddie's being terminated like he should have been years ago.

High powered action/thriller "Timebomb" lacks a cohesive storyline with Eddie on the run with pretty Dr. Anna Nolmar, Pasty Kensit, his psychoanalyst who he got to know while he was repairing her late fathers expensive watch. Always on the run throughout the film the couple are chased by Col.Taylor's mind-controlled goons from L.A to Mexico to Arizona an finally back to L.A at the Duke Hotel for the final showdown between Eddie and the entire Taylor goon squad.It turns out that Eddie, or Oliver Dykstra in an other life, couldn't be corrupted by Col. Taylor & Co. to murder innocent people who the Colonel and his bosses high in government feel are a threat to "National Security".

Discarted and thrown away in a garbage dump Eddie miraculously survived and lived a quite and uneventful life until he came to the rescue of the woman and child in that burning building and since then he life was never the same again. Escaping from Taylor's men to Mexico Eddie realizes why he's a marked man when he sees a newspaper headline about Dean Jordan, Harvey Fuller, who's running for Attoreny General of the United States. Eddie then realizes that that's the main reason that he's to be killed as soon as possible ;to stop him from preventing Jordan's assassination at the Duke Hotel that coming Sunday.

Better then average action sequences with a wild shoot-out in a darkened and almost deserted porno theater with the porn flick still being projected on the screen as the bullets are flying and bodies dropping, what was the projectionist doing? was he asleep or on his lunch break? The final scene at the Duke Hotel was really something to see with all the light shut off as the assassin team with infra-red eyeglasses zero in on the guest speaker, Dean Jordan, for the kill.

Eddie saves the day, and Dean Jordan's life, by taking on the entire hit-team and slugging it out with them in the lobby and on the roof of the hotel with L.A police detective Sanchez, Raymond St. Jacques, coming to Eddie's aid just in the nick of time. The movie did touch on things back in 1990 that are very real today about a out of control government feeling that it's above the law and can do no wrong. As long as it has the power to control and intimidate those who dare to criticize or expose it.

The one thing that really disappointed me more then anything else in the movie "Timebomb" was the fact that Robert Culp, who played L.A's communications chief Phllips, was given top billing yet Culp was in less then two minutes of "Timebomb's" hour and a half screen time.