Lesley-Anne Down in Nomads (1986)

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John McTiernan's directing career must be the most unpredictable ever. He alternates pure crap with mediocrity with genuinely entertaining films.

Check out the scores at IMDb:

1. (7.90) - Die Hard (1988)
2. (7.50) - Hunt for Red October, The (1990)
3. (7.10) - Predator (1987)
4. (6.90) - Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995)
5. (6.80) - Thomas Crown Affair, The (1999)
6. (6.10) - 13th Warrior, The (1999)
7. (5.71) - Medicine Man (1992)
8. (5.37) - Nomads (1986)
9. (5.31) - Last Action Hero (1993)
10. (2.90) - Rollerball (2002)

I'd say that The Last Action Hero is underrated, while Nomads and The Thirteenth Warrior are overrated, but that chart gives you the general idea. Die Hard, Thomas Crown, and Predator are pretty cool films, while 13th Warrior, Rollerball and Nomads couldn't be much worse. (I have to go by the critics' consensus on Rollerball, but I don't doubt it).

Look at the dates. Predator, one of his cool films, came only a year after this one. Thomas Crown and 13th Warrior were made in the same year.

The basic storyline in Nomads is this:

Pierce Brosnan is a French anthropologist with an outrageous accent, and he is running away from the extras in Road Warrior. It turns out that those people are not normal humans, or even actors in a lousy road show musical version of Mad Max, but are actually evil spirits who roam the earth in bad costumes. Apparently, the Eskimos are the only people who know of their existence, and Brosnan found out because he's an anthropologist who studied Eskimos. Or maybe he ate a spoiled Eskimo Pie and hallucinated the whole thing from food poisoning. One or the other.

The movie begins with Brosnan tied to a hospital bed. As he rants and raves, he bites his doctor and transfers all his knowledge and memories to her. She then sees life through his eyes, eventually living his past and her present simultaneously. Sometimes, when we see Brosnan, it is Brosnan. Sometimes it is the doctor in her own present, in which she somehow shares Brosnan's soul. Sometime it is the doctor in Brosnan's past. We don't know, and we can't see very well anyway, because the producer apparently didn't pay the electricity bill on the sets, and we basically see a form which looks something like Pierce Brosnan.

As if that weren't confusing enough, it appears that these evil Eskimo Road Warriors cannot leave California. I guess it's some kind of evil karmic house arrest, and therefore you can become free from them simply by going to Vegas.

But don't come back from Vegas. Not even if you win.

Nudity Report: Anna Maria Monticelli shows one breast in a lovemaking scene.

Critics Vote: Ebert 1.5/4.

IMDB Summary: IMDb voters score it 5.3/10.

Box Office: A BOMB - $2 million.


Written by: Scoopy …courtesy of Scoopy.net