what a difference 36 years make!

Rating: 3/10 (7 April 2020)

I saw this movie in the cinema when it came out, and my friends and I thought it was uproarious fun. So locked in quarantine I suggested to the family we watch this, and 36 years later it really comes across as a B-movie, and a bad one at that. The exposition, the time during which nothing of note happens, is at close to an hour far too long, and the acting is bad and none of the characters are particularly engaging or interesting, so it truly is boring. When mayhem breaks loose the movie gets funnier, but actually, the action is very undeveloped and uninvolving, and by this stage is fully played for laughs, losing some of the menace that could have made the movie more interesting. Our 2020 teenagers were not impressed.