Thursday, June 23, 2022

Yesterday's Target (1996)

Incoherent, cheap and shabby. Perfect trash movie then.

It is the dark far future (well 2025 anyway) and three people are sent into the past to perform a secret mission. Unfortunately when they arrive back in the mid-1990s they have no memory of who they are or what they are supposed to be up to. Thus Paul (Daniel Baldwin) only has a vague idea of who he is, and doesn't know he has special powers. Holden (Malcolm McDowell) does have some idea about it, thanks to Winstrom (LeVar Burton) and his powers of clairvoyance. 

Paul finds his two comrades, Jessica (Stacy Haiduk) - who can see into the near future and thus uses her skills to rip off casinos, and Carter (TK Carter) who can set fire to things and works as a cook (handy). Holden and Winstrom's goons are out to capture them, or kill them. Paul discovers that they were sent back into the past to change the future and facilitate the next development in humanity. Or something.

What does this film mean? Who really knows? There probably was a reasonable science fiction story somewhere but it seemed to get discarded fairly early. LeVar Burton tries his best to be a bad guy, but some people are just too nice for it to be convincing!