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Cleopatra 2525 - Hel and High Water
episode 1.12, episode 1.13
USA 2000
produced by Robert G. Tapert, Sam Raimi, R.J. Stewart for Renaissance Pictures
directed by Andrew Merrifield
starring Jennifer Sky, Gina Torres, Victoria Pratt, Patrick Kake
TV-series Cleopatra 2525
review by Mike Haberfelner
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This time around, Cleo (Jennifer Sky), Hel (Gina Torres) & Sarge
(Victoria Pratt) have to go underwater in a submarine (which for some
reason or no reason at all forces them to wear silly looking but
revealing uniforms) to answer a distress call. Once down there, they of
course find a mysterious underwater city where their reception is
lukewarm at best - they even have to abandon their weapons. Also, the
inhabitants of that city seem to be planning something sinister, a
feeling that seems to be confirmed when the girls discover a baily
(bailies are the machine creatures that have once driven the humans from
the surface of the earth) in the center of the city, supplying it with
both energy & technology. When the girls are found out at the
baily's though, they have - having recovered their weapons - a fierce
shootout with the underwater-folks though, in which Sarge is shot. After
many an effort by the girls & an underwater-man trying to help them,
she dies, too, but is revived by the baily (!), who only wants to be
shot dead itself in return - a wish the girls are only too happy to
comply with ... But why is the baily on their side ? & why is it
actually make it possible for them to stop the underwater people from
blowing up the whole underworld (this is where the humans took refuge
after the bailies conquered the surface) ? Questions that are not
annswered here, in the last episode of the series first season.
Not too bad a double-episode, with a rather standard underwater-city
plot (ugly & clichéd decors by the way) & a little sibling
rivalry thrown in just for good measure, but: The whole business with
the baily being not all that bad & acutally helping the girls makes
very little sense in the context of the story, especially since it is
never explained in the slightest, & seems to be just there to keep Sarge
alive - and, how many death scenes can a character (who doesn't
even die for real in the end) have in one story (Sarge had an amazing 3
such scenes here). This is really pushing the limits a bit too far !
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