The Comic (1985)

The Comic: Directed by Richard Driscoll. With Steve Munroe, Berderia Timini, Jeff Pirie, Bernard Plant. In a future police state, a stand-up comic murders a competitor for a job, then gets mixed up with a stripper.

“Is this movie terrible? Absolutely notu003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIs this movie great? Absolutely not.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI always heard from people that they either HATED or LOVED this movie. And for me it was neither.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe audience for this film is served with a classic action movie/comic book. u0026quot;The world is in danger! There must be a solution! Although there are bumps between the characters along the way, eventually, weu0026#39;ll solve the problemu0026quot;u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe interesting twist is *supposed* to be that instead of classic superheroes, we have bad guys. To that I say u0026quot;so what?u0026quot;. The movie didnu0026#39;t really establish why I should care about much of what was going on on screen—it was all just classic popcorn movie action and sequences that were occasionally broken up by half-attempts at character development.”