Plot from Imdb: "A mute alien is chased by outer-space bounty hunters through the streets of Harlem in this thought-provoking cult classic."
I thought I was in for another Blaxploitation movie and I found instead a great little SciFi movie, with a real atmosphere and a lot of social content. Our heroe is mute, witch gives us a great oportunity to hear the others characters rumbling about their lives all they want. Classic story of the stranger introducing us to the social reality, in this case Harlem in the 80's...Our heroe has healing powers, including fixing machines and a few other special skills. The main character is played by Joe Morton, who also played the genius programmer form Cyberdyne in Terminator 2, and he's perfect in a difficult mute role. Lot's of great scenes all along, in the bar or in the subway with the "magician". The space bounty hunters looks like two cheesy MIB and act as such. The bar brawl is really lame but, hey ! It's a b-movie, by all means. Strange steel drum music all along, that adds weirdness to the lot. This one is really something else in the great genre of blaxploitation. Watch it if you can.
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