Blue Flame Reviews

If lawyers existed for entertainment-damage suits, viewers could build a good case against the makers of this impenetrable science-fiction adventure. Failing to heed the warning of hard-boiled policeman Flemming (Brian Wimmer), authorities in the future allow two alien humanoids, Fire (Jad Magher) and Rain (Kerri Green), to survive in suspended animation. Brainwashing a scientist into freeing them, the gruesome twosome resume their crime spree of two years before. Deliberately pricking Flemming's interest in nabbing the aliens, Morgan (Joel Brooks) reveals that the DNA of Flemming's missing child Samantha was found at the scene of the aliens' bust-out. Outclassed by Fire and Rain, who can screw up human states of consciousness as they flip through their victims' memories, Flemming doesn't comprehend that Rain is actually a grown-up version of his long-lost daughter. Prior to discovering this fact, Flemming is unable to prevent the dynamic duo from slaying a druggie named Wax (Ian Buchanan); the cop's pursuit of the aggressors is further hampered by his attraction to a sexy android sent to slow him down. When Flemming finally encounters Rain, she postpones finishing him off and instructs Flemming in how to beat Fire at his own mindgames. Traveling in and out of his memories, Flemming and Rain strive to eliminate Fire before he can subsume Rain into his own identity for all time. At a black time-hole called the Edge, the trio meet in combat. After Fire expires, Flemming and his wife Jessie (Cecilia Peck) are reunited with their restored daughter Samantha (Kyle Buckley) on a beach. Putting viewers through a wringer of altered realities, imbecilically stepping in and out of peoples' minds at random, and never fully explaining any part of this fever dream, filmmaker Cassian Elwes concocts a lifeless philosophical journey through time, space, and various preemptive realities. With a music score echoing TWIN PEAKS and a surface sangfroid mimicking THE X FILES, BLUE FLAME desires to be a hip, cool mind-trip, a weirdly tempo-changing experience reminiscent of drug indulgence. While there's nothing wrong with fashioning a TWILIGHT ZONE for Generation X, BLUE FLAME mistakes derivative aural and visual trickery for a style of its own. Instead of style, it offers unintelligible plot ingredients and acting so laid back the entire case seems to have been drained by those two alien energy-vampires. The consistently absurd plot twists could cause your own thought processes to short-circuit from confusion aggravated by enervation.(Graphic violence, extreme profanity, adult situations, substance abuse.)