Hardware or The End of Society As Narrated By Iggy Pop

By the 21st century most of Earth has been transformed into a nuclear wasteland, the few survivors herded together in slums. Sounds like most post-apocalyptic films right? There is a slight twist in this one though, you have to add just a bit of flavor of Terminator. The movie starts with Mo, played by Dylan McDermott, returning home to see his girlfriend during the "Christmas Cease Fire". On the way he stops a nomad who is selling odds and ends and electronic trinkets, Mo buys a metallic skull along with a few other mechanical "do-dads" to take to his girlfriend, Jill, who is a sculptor. Needless to say the "do-dads" and the skull are off the remains of a military project for a "soldier/killer" robot, which reactivates itself and puts itself back together, wherein mayhem ensues and people die. I would divulge more but this is not a "spoilerific" episode

If you love the apocalypse you should add this one to your viewing list. There really is not anything new or different here from what you have seen with others in this genre, but despite that, this one does not fail to entertain. It has everything you could hope for in "killer robot hunting humans in a post-apocalyptic world" movie, including Iggy Pop narrating in the background for you. That's right you get the "Godfather of Punk" along with everything else, so don't be a Stooge (see what I did there), go out and find this movie!

HARDWARE
Written by: Steve MacManus, Kevin O'Neill, and Richard Stanley
Directed by: Richard Stanley
Starring: Dylan McDermott, Stacey Travis and Iggy Pop
Rating: R
Runtime: 94 minutes