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　　來自21世紀的項少龍（古天樂 飾）曾意外穿越，并助秦王（林峯 飾）一統天下，這段跨越時空的宿命糾纏將兩人緊緊捆綁，兩人也成為亦師亦友的情感羈絆。然而，在項少龍歸隱田園多年后，未知穿越者卻驟然降臨，大國基業陷入傾覆危機，秦王不得不求助于早已不問世事的項少龍。面對足以顛覆歷史的強敵，他們能否放下芥蒂聯手抗敵？那段摻雜著師徒之恩、君臣之畏與知遇之情的情感，又將成為保護彼此的鎧甲，還是刺向對方的利刃？                        

　　在洛杉磯火山噴發釋放出巨大的群熔巖呼吸狼蛛。

　　Set in an underground dungeon inhabited by bundled, ragged human beings, after the nuclear holocaust. The story follows the wanderings of a hero through the situations of survival. People wait for the Ark to arrive and rescue them while their habitat falls apart.　　Delving deep into the dusty and long abandonded vaults of b-cinema in search of lost gems always leaves me with a bittersweet taste. On one hand the discovery of unexpected gems where no one would think them possible is a rewarding experience. On the other hand though it makes one wonder how many of these remarkable low-budget oddities, personal love affairs of directors never quite famous and now all but forgotten, have almost forever slipped from memory?　　n any case what we have here is a little post-apocalyptic gem from Poland that is really better than it has any right to. The dystopian near future of O-BI, O-BA finds a group of survivors of the nuclear war that ravaged the Earth inhabiting an underworld concrete bunker and biding their time as they wait for the mysterious Ark, an air ship of some kind that will come and save them. The Ark proves to be an elaborate hoax, carefully designed to give hope to the malnourished and desperate denizens of the bunker, while in the meantime the dome that separates their miserable existence from the nuclear winter outside is slowly caving in.　　What first striked me about the movie is the design of the bunker and the depiction of the survivors. The survivors are gaunt, filthy and terrible-looking penitents, dressed in rags and aimlessly wandering the neon-lit halls of the bunker like automatons. The bunker is a rundown, seedy place, with bright neon lights peering from all sides like the eyes of malignant beasts.　　On one hand it is a slightly 80's depiction of the dystopian future but the movie never stoops down to MAD MAX cheese. Instead it combines biting political satire with the bleak outlook of a world with no future, black comedy with barbs on apathy, religion and power. The survivors, for example, are fed some kind of flour dropping from a tube that hovers in the air - later on we discover the food supervisor uses books and the Bible itself as filler for this meagre meal. There are many such short symbolic touches, perhaps not life-changing or faith-restoring, yet playful, clever and inspired.　　One thing is for sure; O-BI, O-BA is not your run-of-the-mill sci-fi schlock. It overcomes its modest budget with creativity and has genuine artistic aspirations both from a writing and directing perspective. My opinion is that it should have been filmed in black and white instead of colour though. The director uses atmospheric light and shadow to great effect and it would have registered even better in stark black and white. The blue-green neon on the other hand outstays its welcome after a while. Just a minor gripe in an otherwise solid b-movie with its heart set in all the right places.　　Imagine a less bleak THE ROAD (Cormac McCarthy) being injected with the satire and humour of DR.STRANGELOVE and you're getting there. See it if you can find it.

　　核子戰爭浩劫一直是人類社會揮之不去的陰影，萬一在哪一天真的爆發了核戰，那將會是什么景象呢？這部尼古拉斯．邁耶導演的電視電影就是根據這種推測拍成的作品，用寫實手法刻劃美國堪薩斯州勞倫斯市發生核彈爆炸后的各種景況，從而探討外在世界的變化和人性的內在演變，主題具省思意識，在1983年美國首播時曾造成極大轟動。幾位主要演員：賈森．羅巴茲、喬拜茲．威廉斯、史蒂夫．加頓伯格、約翰．李斯可、埃米．馬迪根等均有緊扣人心的精彩演出。