Tank Girl

3/31/19951h 44m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ In the future, the odds of survival are 1000 to 1. That's just the way she likes it. ~

Overview:

After a comet disrupts the rain cycle of Earth, the planet has become a desolate, barren desert by the year 2033. With resources scarce, Kesslee, head of the powerful and evil Water & Power Corporation, the de facto government, has taken control of the water supply. Unwilling to cower under Kesslee's tyrannical rule, a pair of outlaws known as Tank Girl and Jet Girl rise up, joining the mysterious rebel Rippers to destroy the corrupt system.

Director:

Rachel Talalay

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$25,000,000.00

Revenue:

$4,064,495.00

Key words:

dystopia
destroy
reincarnation
based on comic
desert
woman director
2030s

Cast

Lori Petty

~ as ~

Rebecca / Tank Girl

Naomi Watts

~ as ~

Jet Girl

Malcolm McDowell

~ as ~

Kesslee

Ice-T

~ as ~

T-Saint

Jeff Kober

~ as ~

Booga

Reg E. Cathey

~ as ~

Deetee

Scott Coffey

~ as ~

Donner

Don Harvey

~ as ~

Sgt. Small

Ann Cusack

~ as ~

Sub Girl

Iggy Pop

~ as ~

Rat Face

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 2 year(s) ago
5
Malcolm McDowell is the megalomanic "Kesslee" who in a post-apocalyptic Earth is determined to control the most important substance left to man. Water. Meantime, a rag-tag collection of miscreants consisting of the eponymous, "Harley Quinn" style character (Lori Petty), "T-Saint" (Ice-T) and "Jet Girl" (Naomi Watts) who are marauding around with a tank and a jet decide together with some angry kangaroos and "Booga" (Jeff Kober) that vengeance will be their's. What now ensues is a really derivative, repetitive and frankly rather dull semi-animated action adventure that rehashes just about every theme in the book and over-relies on the characterisations that are seriously under-delivered by a cast that are simply not up to the task. McDowell just hams it up the whole time and the dialogue is beyond banal. Rachel Talalay could have done so much more with the sort of "Mad Max" elements of the story, but instead allows this to just drift into a puerile, attitudinal, drama that offers little to engage and a suite of visual effects that we have seen loads of times before. There's a brief appearance from Iggy Pop and the "rippers" bring a certain, welcome, randomness to this otherwise really rather uninspiring flop. Sorry, but I wouldn't bother if I were you.