Talec, a humanoid alien with long blond hair who just says "I come in peace", appears on Earth and randomly attacks people by inserting heroin into their chest with one tube, and extracting endorphins from their brains through another tube, killing them in the process. Detective Jack Caine is sent on the case, but is annoyed by his new partner, FBI agent Smith. Still, Jack is aided by his girlfriend Diane. Jack discovers a mysterious CD which levitated and killed several people, and brings it to his home. In the back of their police car, Caine and Smith discover a wounded humanoid alien who is a space Detective hunting Talec, and who gives them a special gun to kill Talec. In an abandoned factory, Caine kicks Talec who bounces back and is impaled on a hanging spike. Caine then shoots and kills Talec with the space gun.
After "Masters of the Universe" and "Rocky IV", sympathetic Swedish actor Dolph Lundgren received only film roles below his standard, and among them was this tiresome and routine science-fiction action B-film "I Come in Peace", which shows just how genius Cameron's "The Terminator" was in comparison. Except for the highly unusual concept of the humanoid alien with long blond hair killing humans just to extract endorphines (!) from them to be sold on the space market as a drug, and one good match cut (the alien extracts red fluid from the brain of a victim, which is then followed by a cut to some dark fluid flowing across tubes, only to be revealed as a coffee machine of some scientist in a laboratory), there isn't that much to see here, since the storyline is standard and as predictable as running on a treadmill. The action, fight and chase sequences are 'a dime a dozen' in the genre, lacking creativity, surprises or ingenuity. The dialogue is also way too conventional. There simply is too little of anything to save this whole storyline from routine and 'grey' craftsmanship.
Grade:+
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