Trancers 4: Jack of Swords (1994)

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kylechan
A true return to form for the Trancers saga. En garde motherfucker! 9 years 9 months ago
Siskoid
With Trancers 4: Jack of Swords, I can no longer consider this a time travel series. Rather, it does what a lot of B-movies were doing in the mid-90s and goes to Eastern Europe to shoot a low-budge sword and sorcery movie with Jack Deth as a fish out of water. It starts out well enough despite jettisoning almost every character we know (Jack is now the only survivor of the first two movies), with a bit of world-building and the teasing of new trancer-less paradigm. But then he winds up in a magical dimension where Trancers are aristocratic vampires with names ripped off Shakespeare, feeding off the peasantry. Only Jack Deth can give them hope, even if his gadgets all wrong wrong in this space. There are still a couple of good one-liners, and the character's humor shines through, but this really isn't want the franchise should do (i.e. Army of Darkness Lite). If it had been a one-off, perhaps actually in Medieval times, it might have been something (with future installments taking place in the Old West or Nazi Germany, etc.). Rather, it ends on a cliffhanger, so we'll have to suffer through a second chapter of this. Watchable still, but tedious when Jack isn't on screen, and unable to find a creep to play the villain, they instead went with a douchey fitness instructor. Oh well. 4 years 10 months ago