Live Wire (1992)

[Mitchaltogether 3]

This movie is amazing, strange, and awful. Pierce Brosnan stars as Danny O'Neill, a bomb explosives expert whose wife is fucking a Senator. Which people keep reminding him of, constantly. Also, vaguely defined ethnic terrorists are exploding people around town, and no one knows how they're doing it. They hang out in a dramatically lit warehouse, murdering each other and making threatening phone calls. Eventually, Danny, his partner Shane and his robot slave/lover Madonna have to team up with the Senator who is fucking his wife to catch the terrorists. I'm going to start listing random facts about this movie: A clown and a judge explode in separate but equally awesome scenes. The Director's cut features a steamy bathtub sex scene cut from the theatrical release. The movie climaxes with a legitimately awesome home invasion sequence that's sort of Home Alone with bombs. The soundtrack sounds like Pink Floyd scoring a Viagra commercial.

 

Here is a very spoiler-filled trailer. Nothing is really left out of here, so if you're going to watch this movie, stay away.

[MattHoekstra 0]

I cannot agree more with mitchaltogether, this movie needs to be seen if you love bad action from 80's and 90's. Pierce Brosnan with terrible American accent running around DC trying to stop some terrorists or rather arms dealers or someone. Lot's of cheating spouses and "haunting" flashbacks. Title card of the movie is a parody of action movie title cards without the parody. I cannot stress the word robot enough SPOILER: Madonna the robot loves Brosnan's ass. The music is amazing with the main musical theme repeating throughout the film being played by a rocking guitar. One last note, the people in the movie who explode do so mysteriously unless you have been watching the movie for 5 minutes in which case the director has clued you in on the enigmatic substance that brings this tragic end. Five Stars

[sillstaw 414]

I was wondering if this was the movie I read about in old Columbia House catalogs that was described as something like "he has to solve a case involving a bomb that looks like water." Which put into my mind an image of somebody trying to defuse a puddle of water.

 

Also, courtesy of Wikipedia, a spoiler with the worst possible phrasing for getting back with your wife:

The ending features the hero (O'Neill) bagging the ultimate prize (his wife), having a second child and (presumably) living happily ever after.

 

Nothing like describing your wife as a "prize" that you "bagged."

[Mitchaltogether 3]

It's a movie that, at its heart, is a love story between a man and his robot.

[MarcNado 28]

Synopsis:
Danny O'Neill is a bomb disposal expert assigned to a case where terrorists have developed an "invisible" liquid explosive which is activated within the human body. The targets of the terrorists are U.S. Senators, one of which is having an affair with Danny's wife.

IMDB

 

Found this film by pure chance and you can tell right away that is has one foot in the 80s and one in the 90s like many early 90s films. The basic premise of the film is insane, a liquid that can turn people into bombs yet you can cure them with antacid tablets. But to complicate matters further our hero has to save the guy who is estranged wife is now shacked up with.

Apparently this was supposed to be a big summer box office movie and was made as such, but they decided against releasing it when it was done and just pushed it straight to TV instead.