科学家们终于终于发明出了时空穿梭机,为了防止有人利用它回到过去改变历史,一支被称为时空特警的队伍成立了,马克斯(尚格·云顿 Jean-Claude Van Damme 饰)就是其中的一员。十年前,马克斯的妻子梅丽莎(米娅·萨拉 Mia Sara 饰)死于非命,凶手至今未被捉拿归案,这成为了马克斯的心结。
马克斯决心通过时空穿梭机来调查事件的真相,回到过去的他得知隐藏在幕后的黑手是名叫麦克考姆(马尔科姆·斯图尔特 Malcolm Stewart 饰)的议员,然而此人背景十分复杂,马克斯拿他无可奈何。女警菲尔丁(格劳丽亚·鲁本 Gloria Reuben 饰)成为了马克斯的搭档,跟随他回到1994年,捉拿麦克考姆,哪知道菲尔丁的真实身份其实是麦克考姆的爪牙,马克斯的计划再度失败。
这是Richard Lester最好的一个片。 An absurdist classic This is a wonderful surreal comedy based on the play by Spike Milligan and John Antrobus. You know that it is going to be an odd film right at the beginning, when the opening credits list the cast in order of their height. The film begins with the BBC (Frank Thornton) telling us through the facade of an old television that this is the third, or is it the fourth, anniversary of the shortest war in history, lasting 2 hours and 28 minutes. England is now a barren landscape, littered with derelict cars and buildings, hills of old boots, broken crockery, and other debris. Forty million people perished and there are only 20 known survivors. The Queen did not survive, and of the 20 known survivors the next in line for the throne is a Mrs Ethel Schroake of 393a High Street, Leytonstone. Among the other survivors are Ralph Richardson (O Lucky Man!) as Lord Fortnum of Alamein, who isn't looking forward to his impending mutation into a bed sitting room. Michael Hordern is Bules Martin, who wears a 18-carat Hovis bread ring. Spike Milligan is a postman who wanders around and delivers some memorable dialogue, for example And in come the three bears - the daddy bear said, 'Who's been sleeping in my porridge' - and the mummy bear said, 'that's no porridge, that was my wife' . Arthur Lowe is slowly turning into a parrot (which is then eaten by Spike Milligan), while his wife, the owner of her own death certificate, turns into a wardrobe. His daughter is pregnant with a strange creature, which she has held inside her for seventeen months. Peter Cook and Dudley Moore are a pair of policemen who perpetually tell the others to keep moving!. Moore growls a lot and turns into a dog at the end. Marty Feldman is a wellington-boot-wearing nurse. It's a hilarious, absurdist treat, and one of my treasured filmic pleasures.