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I Come in Peace [VHS] | ![I Come in Peace [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/214PRMG9WFL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Craig R. Baxley
Actors: Dolph Lundgren, Brian Benben, Betsy Brantley, Matthias Hues, Jay Bilas
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
List Price: $14.98
Buy Used: $8.20
You Save: $6.78 (45%)
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Rating:  22 reviews
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Ntsc
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: VHS Tape
Discs: 1
Running Time: 91 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 6301885538
UPC: 086112275239
EAN: 9786301885539
Theatrical Release Date: September 28, 1990
Release Date: September 10, 1997
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 Plot?... Acting?... August 19, 2010
T. Coleman
Who cares! You get to see a alien (calico) blaster tear up the place and Dulph cheesing it up to 11!
Best Two Dollars I ever spent at the bijou! Dang shame it never made it to the DvD era~
 This is your brain on drugs - this is the scary alien come to suck out your brain matter November 29, 2009
H. Bala (Carson - hey, we have an IKEA store! - CA USA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I yanked this off my ancient, dusty VHS pile the other day and once again was reminded of the fun content in this flick. I don't know whether I COME IN PEACE (a.k.a. DARK ANGEL) has a cult following or not but, by gum, it's deserving of one. I think that the notion of pairing up muscly Dolph Lundgren with stuffed shirt Brian Benben borders on the inspired. And then there's the wacky premise, which borrows some from The Hidden and is also sort of a brawnier, less kinky version of Liquid Sky. Check this, a drug-trafficking extraterrestrial (a properly menacing Matthias Hues) swoops down to planet Earth and goes on a killing spree, injecting his victims with heroin and then extracting endorphins from their brain matter, with the heroin boosting the endorphins into highly potent narcotics. And, oh yeah, most times, the guy introduces himself to his targets by remarking: "I come in peace." Which turns out to be a long-winded set-up for Lundgren's one-liner in the climactic showdown.
Dolph Lundgren plays a maverick Houston vice cop who reluctantly teams up with a tightly wound, by-the-books FBI agent (Benben) to go after the yuppie drug lords who murdered his partner. This sets the stage for the expected buddy cop bickering and posturing, and that's fine because the dichotomy between these two diametrically opposed personalities is pretty enjoyable. But if Brian Benben's smug character - who obviously suffers from tiny man Napoleon's syndrome - doesn't soon grate on your last nerve, then you, pal, are a saint. The saving grace, though, is that Benben is able to make his FBI guy likable enough that you don't actively loathe him. Still, I couldn't help but feel a sense of self-satisfaction when his FBI supervisor gives him the "Can't make an omelet without breaking eggs" speech.
It eventually dawns on the pair that seriously wonky stuff is going down, and that their real enemy might be this mean, murderous, giant space alien. There's also this space alien cop lurking about, but his presence is almost perfunctory even if his hair is even more ghastly than the bad guy alien's. The film serves up a heaping plate of explosions, car chases, and gun fights. Note the coroner-slash-neglected token love interest, the spazzy lab tech who seems to exist on a perennial caffeine high, an FBI cover-up, and then back it all up with a synth score that'll stick you in a time warp back to the late 1980s.
Of all the alien weaponry unveiled, the murderous vibrating CD has to be the craziest (and check out the killer CD-cam), although I do dig the clunky overkill of a gun which 'splodes things. This movie ranks several tiers below THE TERMINATOR and Dolph Lundgren makes for a poor man's Arnold Schwarzenegger (the Lundgrenator?), but this is Lundgren's stab at a sci-fi action thriller, back in 1990. I COME IN PEACE is an unassuming B-movie and it is droll, campy fun. It doesn't take itself too seriously, and that makes it a likable film; in its tongue-in-cheek approach, it reminds me a bit of Dead Heat (Divimax Special Edition), a cop movie which features good guy zombie cops. For my money, this really is one of Dolph Lundgren's more entertaining outings, right up there with Universal Soldier (Special Edition) and Showdown in Little Tokyo.
 Dark Angel November 16, 2009
Johnny W. Hatton
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
this movie is also called "I come in peace". you can find it on vhs tape. But has not been released on dvd yet.I Come in Peace [VHS]
 Looking for the DVD July 13, 2009
Ray Bulmon
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I seen the movie in the early 1990's.Wish I could buy it on dvd.Like everyone said it is a good movie and will keep you interrested in it until the end.
I notice there is VHS tapes of the movie but,$65.00 for a new tape,and a used tape for about $7.00 which has no guarantee.I like the movie but I don't think I'll ever pay $65.00 for it.
Maybe one day it will be on DVD.Till then I'll kept my eyes open.
Dark Angel (aka "I Come In Peace") March 31, 2009
C. A. Luster (Burke, VA USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is one of the scariest and funniest movies Dolph Lundgren ever did. I enjoy it immensely and I'm disappointed to see it so expensive and hard to get. I hope a Blu-ray version comes out as this movie did not get the exposure it should have during it's release Christmas of 1990. I am kind of surprised so few have heard of this SciFi with aliens coming to Earth. Police detectives Lundgren and Benben try to figure out what exactly they are doing after some drug dealers and civilians are murdered. At a drug dealers they find several dead bodies and a unusual sharp metal CD stuck to a speaker magnet. The guy they take it to for analysis at the university looks like he has been drinking Jolt and taking amphetamines. The whole movie has a mix of good SciFi drama and comedy. I had never seen Lundgren in a comedy before and this was a nice change of pace. It reminds me of how "Twins" made a difference in Arnold Scwharzenegger's career. Great quality DVD with plenty of replayability. If you enjoyed this, catch Split Second.
CA Luster
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