TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film

Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

dinupl I don't know why people who write reviews on this movie, are so grumpy!This movie was made in 1990, it says it has action, it has action, also it says it's a thriller, it keeps the viewers attention and it's sci-fi, thinking it has a low budget, you should expecting to see an Iron Man 3 sci-fi, it has little special effects but it compensates with the talent of the actors that you don't find in our days.I personally like this movie and I appreciated it, because it's an old one and a good one.I really don't regret that I've seen it, I'm glad, Michael Paré is a good actor and his role attitude is fantastic.I scored it a little higher 8 out of 10 i think is around 7.7 out of 10.

lathe-of-heaven Poor Roland Emmerich... Maybe it was just too early on in his 'Creative' process. Maybe producers screwed with it. I don't know...And, I sure don't know WHAT happened with the quality (cough...) of this film. Where do I start...? Well, a lot of this has already been covered by most reviewers here. Actually, in all fairness, I DO think that the movie started fairly well, with the exception of the horrible acting in the board room (wait a minute... that WAS the start; hmmm... maybe I mean right AFTER that...) Anyway, the visuals and sets are decent, but the acting, writing, and direction leave quite a bit to be desired. It's a shame too, because it COULD have been a nice, little Science Fiction film.The supposed 'Drama' that pads out this movie is honestly pretty bad. Even if they had just kept to suspense and constant, mindless Action, the film would have been FAR better served. The dialog was quite painful; even a veteran like Malcolm McDowell looked (and sounded) like he'd REALLY rather be somewhere else and I don't blame him.Basically, the setup and story are fine for a standard 'B' Sci Fi film. And, I have absolutely NOTHING against a good 'B' film. Not at all... But, as I said, with the exception of better than average visuals, the progression of the 'story' (such as it is) the screenplay, and particularly the direction, really water down and ruin whatever potentially MIGHT have been salvaged in the film.I guess this was Evil Ed's last 'normal' role, if you will excuse the term. Dang that guy looks so damn weathered now it's really sad. But, that was just about the ONLY highlight of the film (if you can really call it that) was seeing good ol' Evil Ed in action. Now, if he (and bloody EVERYONE ELSE) had had decent things to say, it certainly would have been a LOT better.Poor writing...Poor execution...Poor story development...Poor acting...Uh, I think it's safe to say... NOT recommended.

pachl Most of the reviews of this movie came around the time it made its debut. Now it's a dozen years later... and this piece of trash sure hasn't aged well.But even if this were opening day, this absolutely abysmal movie would still rank as one of the worst in history.It starts out with some of the worst acting I've ever seen, people sitting around a conference table at a major corporation. I swear it looks like the director or producer just decided to cut costs and have his friends and family fill in for real actors. One can really appreciate good acting when one sees the complete opposite.The worst, most ill-conceived character is the Sergeant aboard the space ship. His dialogue is contradictory nonsense. I couldn't believe my ears. It was stupefying. Maybe standards for movie making were more lax back then, but his was incomprehensible.All the characters are cartoonish, the acting is horrendous, and the amateurish "plot" is just an embarrassment to anyone who loves good movies. This one insults our intelligence at every turn.As you probably know, this movie is about the (grim) future when we need to exploit space for raw materials. One massive company is losing all their moon mining operations to pirates. Their cargo shuttles, full of raw materials, go missing. Therefore, they need to find out what's going on, or the company will lose everything.That could be an interesting premise for a movie, but not the way it was done here. Every lame cliché was put to dutiful use, every cookie cutter character was used. Nothing worthy of our time or attention. This was paint by numbers, and sloppily done.This is by no means some elitist review. I love movies of all sort. I wasn't looking for some intellectual "art house" film. This review is negative because the entire film, from start to finish, is just a horrid waste of our time.

epsilon3 I'm suprised about the amount of positivity expressed towards this movie as it is quite poor. As a long standing SF fan I was looking forward to it, despite it's low budget and the fact that the director's subsequent movies have been less than satisfactory. The good points: The special effects are reasonable (although not great) and the set designs are excellent (quite reminiscent of Alien.) The bad points: Cliche after cliche hits you until you can't take it seriously. The handsome tough guy cop who smokes a cigarette out of the corner of his mouth. You'll hate this character unless you like one dimensional humourless carboard cut out stereotypes. The muscle bound convicts who bully everyone else. IS this a prison for body builders or something? The geeky computer wiz kids and their quirky humour. How we laughed.The obvious 'good guy saves the day' ending. Malcolm Mcdowell. Why does he take movies like this? Such a fine actor is wasted here.The plot holes are too numerous to mention here but there are lots and lots - probably about 44.There really isn't anything to like about this film apart from the average visuals.I advise you to give this one a miss and pick up a very similar but far superiour movie called 'Outland' starring Sean Connery and directed by Peter Hyams.