Rift Movies

The Rift movies are a (projected) series of action movies starring Redmond Flint as Dan Cannon, a cop with a military background who plays extremely loose with the rules.

Rift introduces Nikki Sparks, Dan Cannon's on-again off-again girlfriend, played by Lorelei in her first cinematic role. She's a "good girl" type and his loose-cannon nature causes friction between them, though it's evident it also attracts her. She has the misfortune to live near a research facility from which the scientists inadvertently create a dimensional rift which opens and closes outside their control, each time getting bigger and staying open longer, with various incursions from the other side. Nikki witnesses one of these but isn't believed by anyone but Dan.

When the rift grows to become undeniable the army is brought in to guard it, but Nikki has already been abducted by marauders from the other side. Dan has to get past the army to rescue her, find his way about a strange world (which is some way is more advanced but in other ways barbaric), steal some of their weapons, face down the otherworld leader (who proves to be a double of the chief of police) and finally escape back to Earth-1 with Nikki while blowing up the rift with one of the enemy's own bombs (regarded as perhaps the most spectacular explosion in cinema so far).

While essentially an action romp wrong in pretty well every scientific detail, it was well-received for the detail put into the portrayal of the other dimension, its superb special effects, and of course its stars.

Rift 2 opens on December 6th, 2058.

Rift 3 is reportedly planned and written, though there seem to be problems in negotiations, in particular getting Redmond Flint to sign.