The Hidden
The Hidden. A rollicking trashy little cops, robbers Sci-fi flick. Bangs right off with a shoot em up bank robbery/highspeed chase with a black Ferrari 308 crashing cop cars through West Hollywood with the robber rocking out to a cheese metal cassette tape. We meet tough guy Detective Sergeant Beck. Michael Nouri plays Beck as he's introduced, the best cop on the force. Guy's got a chip on his shoulder like Gibraltar. He gets in a yelling match with the doctor at the hospital where the bank robber ends up. Back to the cop station. Enter Kyle Maclachlan. Fresh off Dune and Blue Velvet he's a fresh faced FBI guy. Beck gets assigned to help him and immediately bristles at the job. Agent Gallagher is on the trail of the bank robber who was a regular guy till he started a mayhem killing spree a couple of weeks ago. Gallagher runs to the hospital. Weird shit happens. Beck suspects some weird shit is going on. He's not happy. Now they chase another guy. Beck's not happy. Lots of this kind of cheesy, effective nonsense back in the 80s, and director Jack Shoulder is good at it. A bunch of Terminator influenced shots. It's a great little bit of fluff that's better than it should be. Bonus points for Concrete Blonde's Still in Hollywood blasting out of an old school Boom Box in a diner on Sunset. Mark Frost and David Lynch definitely saw this, because Agent Lloyd Gallagher definitely is a blueprint for Agent Dale Cooper a few years later in Twin Peaks. Maclachlan is great here doing everything he can with this material in sly style. Recommend.