As Stone’s ever deepening psychic link to the killer drags his mental state to the brink of a breakdown, both he and Durkin track the killer down to a disused London Underground station, where the pair must do battle with something which might be more than human, while trying to save London in the process. Thrown into the plot is Stone’s on off girlfriend Michelle (Kim Catterall) a hard ass woman who has little time for Stone’s obsessive behaviour.

Both men are trying to track the killer through the flooded streets of London, devastated by global warning. Assigned to Stone is rookie cop Dick Durkin (Alistair Duncan) who is also an expert on serial killers. Hauer plays rogue cop Harley Stone who is after a serial killer that rips open peoples rib cages and steals their hearts, leaving behind huge claw-like marks. A popular actor with director Paul Verhoven, Nicolas Roeg and others, Hauer carved out a career with intelligent action hero’s in films such as Blind Fury (1989), Wedlock (1991), Surviving The Game (1994) and Wanted: Dead or Alive (1987)’ paving the way for a return to those low budget roots with Hobo With A Shotgun (2011). Hauer had gone on from his cult appearance in Blade Runner (1982) to international fame and more roles outside his native Holland. This film was one of a slate of movies from European actors such as contemporaries Christopher Lambért and Dolph Lundgren all making mid to low budget action films to fill a gap left by the larger American big star action films that had proliferated the big screen from the mid 1980’s. Filmed in 1991, this film has little CGI instead it relied on good old fashioned SFX and plenty of rain to give the London grimy feel to the storyline.

Directed by Tony Maylam, this even paced low budget low Sci-Fi thriller with a horror element became a mini cult film mainly due to its star Hauer and the great selection of British’s character actors, ranging from Alun Armstrong, to Pete Posthwaite and a great cameo from Michael J. Split Second is an action thriller starring the Dutch actor Rutger Hauer set in a near future London in 2008.

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