Malcolm McDowell should've been in more movies. Or at least, better movies. The guy looks awesome, was a great actor, has a fucking sweet accent, and proved he had what it takes really early on with roles in Clockwork Orange, If, and Caligula. He is a bit "controversial", is that why mainstream widespread success eluded him? These same big weird roles relegated him to B movie hell?
HydroSphere is what it's called on Amazon, 2103 is what it's called everywhere else. This is beginning to be a recurring theme, a sign that a movie probably sucks. If you have no confidence in the name, how can you have confidence in the movie?
Michael Pare and Malcolm McDowell star in this low budget 90's oddity of a film. It's a film in which there's a mutated talking baby immersed in a tube of water that characters interact with. It's a film in which there's a kinky black clad stormtrooper-like female agent that goes around killing people in tunnels. It's a film in which Malcolm McDowell's character swigs whiskey like it were going out of style, yet never acts or seems intoxicated in the least.
2103 is on the cusp of leaning towards so-bad-it's-good territory. It overstays it's welcome and is overly long, with altogether too much needless dialogue and nothingness happening. It's in the realm though, it's in the biosphere of so-bad-its-good, and I would say it makes it.
The plot online says the movie is about Malcolm McDowell discovering the cargo on a ship he is given is made up of inmates. The plot description also says there is a bomb onboard the ship. I don't remember either of these plot points. Instead, the end scenes involve the kinky black Predator in a classic Star Wars-esque electricity fight with an unexplained angelic lady. We also never find out wtf was the deal with the Predator. This movie made no fucking sense, but it is a fun enough watch.
I give it 3.5 stars.
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