Review of Dollman (1991) by Robert H — 07 Aug 2010

While it has a pretty funny opening twenty minutes, Dollman just takes itself too seriously when it reaches Earth, and unfortunately the ambitious script is too much for the film's miniscule budget.

Dollman is clearly trying to ride on the coattails of Trancers, but that film just had more fun with its premise. The gang stuff in Dollman is played very straight. Jackie Earle Haley (in his nineties slump phase) is just too good an actor for a movie like this, and he has trouble finding a comedic tone for the role.

Even Thomerson (who is having fun as usual in a role that's basically small Jack Deth) just doesn't have enough to do (he sits in his ship for a good half hour or so) to alleviate the somberness.