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  Review by BeardofTsu ★★ 1

  EDDIIIIIIEEEE!

  Michael Biehn is happily repairing watches when an act of bravery causes his apparent amnesia to subside and his true identity to come to light. After a series of somewhat hilarious flashback triggers we find out he was a trained killer. Nothing new in that respect. You will have seen it done better elsewhere before but those movies did not have Patsy Kensit as a psychoanalyst who gets drawn into the whole fiasco when she goes to get her late father's watch repaired and ends up going on the run with this killing machine when hired goons turn up to dispose of a medical experiment they assumed was dead. It's no surprise Patsy isn't exactly putting on an acting…

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  Review by Justin LaLiberty ★★★½

  I had foolishly written this off as another 90s bomb thriller like Blown Away or Arlington Rd but it's actually a lot more like Live Wire meets D.O.A. and full of solid action set pieces - including a prolonged shootout that starts outside of, and moves inside of, a porn theater - gratuitous nudity and the amount of explosions expected by its premise. Also helps that Michael Biehn seems to be drunk for 90% of this movie.

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  Review by Rob Hill ★★★ 2

  So my guy Speeg reviewed this (just the 182nd person to do so!) and cracked about it being an early Bourne film. Totally fair!

  While this lacks the annoying shaky cam, it has everything else. I particularly appreciate the complete amnesia and absurd conspiracy theories.

  I usually ride pretty hard for Michael Biehn, but he definitely makes a meal of the scenery here. I'm not sure I blame him? There's not a lot of interesting things happening, so overcompensating is pretty natural.

  Lots of would-be assassins going with knives in this one. They switch to guns when the BC technology inevitably fails, but it's funny how often they start there.

  Not funny: how smoking hot Patsy Kensit and Tracy Hoggins look here. Dios mio.

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  Review by Keith G ★★★½ 3

  AKA Nameless
  Watchmaker Eddy Kay (Michael Biehn) is one of life's nice guys, helpful, knows all his neighbours...top guy. A selfless act of heroism changes everything, who exactly is Eddy Kay and why does Richard Jordan and his team of assassins want to kill him? With the help of cognitive therapist Patsy Kensit, he sets about discovering the truth.
  Expected a fairly standard low to moderate 90s sci-fi actioner, soon realising that I'd seen it before. Don't know why I didn't remember it because it was a reasonable effort with a number of good action set-pieces. Basically Jason Bourne, 10 years earlier, Biehn is good, unravelling as people try to kill him, troubled by violent and pornographic flashbacks. Kensit isn't…

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  Review by More_Badass ★★★½

  Between The Manchurian Candidate and The Bourne Identity (or The Long Kiss Goodnight, take your pick) lies the glorious ‘90s b-movie mayhem of Timebomb. Assassins are after Michael Biehn’s mild-mannered watch repairman just as memories of a mysterious past start to surface. Practically a meta-response to Biehn’s Terminator role with him on the run being pursued by unrelenting killers, making superb use of the actor’s frantic everyman presence to nail a balance between killer instincts and WTF-is-happening confusion. 

  Avi Nesher’s ludicrous and lurid conspiracy actioner delivers stunts, squibs, and collateral damage galore; this is 90 minutes of robust violence with a dash of sci-fi weird and madcap narrative swerves. A scrambling gunfight in an adult theater is both a set-piece highlight and a mark of Timebomb’s gleefully gratuitous tone.

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  Review by Grooveman ★★★★½

  How have I never even heard of this until the wise and mighty FilmApe hooked me up?!?! I’ve got to pick my game up I’m slipping in my old age.

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  Review by adelaideblair ★★★

  Features one of the most unpleasant looking sex scenes I have ever viewed. LOVED IT!

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  Review by Casey ★★★½ 3

  A wacky and unhinged action thriller featuring a wacky and unhinged performance from Michael Biehn. Dude is so angry and confused he can barely contain it! They apparently wanted Van Damme for this role, and I guarantee you he read the script and was all like, "I ain't doing this weird ass shit! Where all the splits at?" Can you imagine Van Damme playing a fucking watchmaker??

  This thing has got it all—brutal violence, government conspiracies, brainwashing, super assassins, incompetent hitmen, trippy implanted visions, a porn theater shootout, a Mexican market freakout, a secret abandoned research base under a mental institution. So many of the characters are unintentionally written as if they're aliens learning to be human.

  Some weird and wild shit in this one. Right on my wavelength.

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  Review by Dale Ranger ★★★

  The Winter Soldier is born (Bourne) here.

  Who doesn’t love a tale about a killer who doesn’t remember he/she was a killer. There are tons of them. (I love watching The Long Kiss Goodnight, every Christmas)

  Eddy Kay, a watch maker’s assistant who after helping to save someone from a house fire, appears on the news. Only to be spotted by his former handler who thought he was dead.
  Eddy knows too much. He has to be eliminated.

  I’ve always loved Michael Biehn as I’ve been (Biehn, lol) watching The Terminator, for decades. 
  He is good in this and holds the screen well. It’s a shame outside of other James Cameron projects (Aliens, The Abyss) he didn’t get more work.…

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  Review by Carlo V

  For a movie called Timebomb I sure as hell don't know why this is called Timebomb. I like Michael Biehn because he always looks strung out as shit, and there's just the right amount of polish to make it look like an expensive B-movie... but man it is just impossible to care about the how, what, or who; right up until the end when it unfolds in about the most unimaginative way. There's definitely some Cronenberg shit going on with how this was marketed, and hey fool me once with a poster, fool me a hundred times more sure why not.

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  Review by mattstechel ★★★

  There's a really good shoot out scene right in the middle of a porno theater that Michael Biehn has ducked into at one point. There's also a weird scene about an hour in where Biehn goes into a sensory deprivation tank like he's in Altered States. I'd say those are the two highlights here but the whole thing was fairly fun to watch play out for the most part. It's got a fairly dopey plotline that plays like a much better known movie that would out come a full decade later, but It moves fairly quickly and there's always an action scene right around the corner so what more can you ask for? Also Billy Blanks is one of the…

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  Review by My God's kitten ★★★★

  I grabbed this when I heard the Shout Factory blu-ray was going out of print. It's a damn shame because this is some awesome 90s shit right here. A watch repairman appears on TV news after a heroic but crazy attempt to help someone in a burning building and people start trying to kill him, think maybe it has something to do with his random violence and nudity visions? A chase action-thriller-scifi with lots of knife play and paranoia. Also features that old cliché of a pretty lady that they put glasses on so that you know she's smart.