Word: lamberts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chris Lambert plays Connor MacLeod, a Scotsman born in the 1500's who finds out that he's one of the world's few immortal beings. In the 16th century, he's the naive Luke Skywalker type. In modern Manhattan, he's the boss, with a bitter sense of humor that only four centuries of fighting and living in the fast lane could produce...
Playing Obi-Wan to Lambert's Skywalker is Sean Connery as the immortal Ramirez who instructs Lambert on the finer points of how immortals should fight and generally conduct themselves in a hostile world. Connery is disappointing in this role. His usually imposing suave control is dampened by the Spanish effeteness of his character. Lambert in his Manhattan scenes is actually cooler than Connery...
Firms like Drexel Burnham Lambert, which specialize in helping takeover artists float junk bonds, are another powerful new Wall Street force. Junk bonds are corporate IOUs issued by companies without established credit records, and are therefore considered risky. In the past two years some $27 billion in junk bonds have been issued. Both raiders and corporate executives who wish to take their companies private use them to raise the needed money. "Junk bonds completely changed the nature of the game," says Michael Dingman, president of Allied-Signal, a high-tech giant formed last summer in the friendly merger...
...only seemingly human thing in this whole artificially intelligent movie is actor Christopher Lambert, who gives an appropriately understated performance as the bleach-blond fugitive, Fred. Lambert, best known for his lead role in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, invests a lot of intelligence and humanity in his role as a curiously pathetic underground rogue. When he blows a safe, or cracks a joke, he lets out a little cackle like a parched hyena. And when his character is quite literally resurrected at the film's insipid conclusion, Lambert's performance comes close to resurrecting the picture as well...
Still, everyone knows the saying about "close." And in spite of Lambert's dead-ringer performance, Subway is an unmitigated bomb...