A silly but watchable horror thriller starring Rutger Hauer in his familiar garb of long topcoat and shotgun. This time Rutger's a cop in waterlogged, rat-infested London of 2008. A mutant monster is going around ripping out people's hearts (as monsters do) and Rutger's after its alien guts. It's already dispatched his partner, causing Rutger, who was having an affair with said partner's wife (Kim Cattrall) to go on the sauce. By 2008 the only black stuff he's on is constant coffee, but he's still one step behind the monster, who's taunting him by leaving him messages and ripping out a fresh heart every full moon. Saddled with a bespectacled partner (Neil Duncan), Rutger marches masterfully through murky mush in a bid to end the reign of terror of the fiend, which has the familiar breathing difficulties beloved of the screen's sound effects boys. At the final show-down, the monster becomes the first thing in years to show up on time at a London railway station. Lots of unintentionally funny lines - 'It's looks like an astrological symbol.' gasps Duncan, looking at an incomprehensible mass of blood on the ceiling - and gruesome, well-edited, well-shot action indicate a long life on video shelves.

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