Michael Powell beat Kubrick to the draw with his time -
bridging jump cut between the distant past and the near future, but Kubrick's cut from man's first weapon to his latest killing tool is a stunner, an impressive cosmic joke.
The team leader, James Curran (Michael Biehn) is relatively straight - arrow, but the team's
cut - up, the one with the most screen time, is Charlie Sheen's Dale Hawkins, who makes his introduction in the movie
jumping off a dangerously high
bridge, for sport.