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I loved the plot and loved the overall design of the movie. I think this one is heavily underrated and liked the work that Roland Emmerich has done on this movie.
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Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
03/28/23
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this movie is like if bladerunner was on the moon and about flying. i liked the ugly set design.
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
02/10/23
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I believe this might well be the worst movie that I have ever seen. I love me some cheesy/bad sci fi, but this was just absolutely painful to watch. The special effects were acceptable, the acting ranged from mediocre to mildly abrasive, with dialogue that the writer just should never have bothered writing, and the plot? Omfg, are you kidding me? How did anyone think that this made sense?? Okay, sure, big businesses take over "the universe", and company A is losing their moon mining bases to robotic pirate raids from company B. Sure, that's fine so far. Company A decides to send convicts from their prison to moon 44 to defend the base, because regular pilots won't volunteer. (Apparently because of the weather??) But the way these, um, helicopters? work, and they have to fly in trenches all the time, the pilots require "navigators", (who also control the speed of said helicopters, for no reason that I can imagine) For which company A brings in teenage whiz kids, and then the whole movie goes straight to shit. No really, this right here is where it all goes wrong: "Hey, these punk ass kids who apparently control "our food, the air you breathe," everything, etc. etc. AND who we depend on to keep us from crashing every time we fly... "
So... yeah, lets just abuse them in every way possible, including RAPE one of them in the shower, because we're bad ass convicts, and that somehow makes any sense at all.
After a one of the convicts dies in the least surprising way possible, and another gets really really sick from being poisoned by drugs that "would kill a horse twice". The teenagers finally stand up to them in a "dramatic" confrontation, where they threaten the convicts with the already painfully obvious fact that their lives are in the hands of the kids they've been bullying. Really? you mean obvious fact that you obviously established from the beginning of the movie, and continued to reinforce up to now, is ... surprise! still a fact! Yeah, now the convicts back down, because it's cooperation time! Sort of. Well, the robot pirates from company B are coming to swarm the base, so we'll send out ONE helicopter to deal with that, and then when he gets back, we'll send ONE more, to cover our retreat. I mean we've got like a dozen or so helicopters here, and the convicts to fly them, plus the navigators to keep the pilots from crashing, but why waste them, when we could lose the moon base to pirates instead? The base we're supposed to be protecting. The whole reason any of us are here. Yeah, that makes sense.
Oh, and the guy running the moon base is secretly diverting their shuttles to the enemy, so the main character is an undercover cop sent to investigate, but that part of the plot is so pointless it's barely worth mentioning here. Suffice to say his actions make as much sense as the rest of this movie, and pointless bad guy gets blown up in the end.
Look, I love bad movies. Cheesy old stuff that is so bad its good. But this is not that. This has all the flaws of a bad movie without any of the charm. The special effects and the acting manage to be just nmediocre enough NOT to distract from the plot, which will just insult you over and over, with it's blatant disregard for logic. "The Room" is better than this, because at least that's so ridiculous as to be entertaining. If you want some bad sci fi to watch try "Sleeping Dogs", not this crap.
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01/21/23
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rory s
I liked this movie. Good story. Kept my attention.
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
03/31/23
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dave j
Friday, November 15, 2013
(1990) Moon 44
SCIENCE-FICTION THRILLER
Early film by 'catastrophe movie king' Roland Emmerich of such movies as "Independence Day", "Godzilla", The Day After Tomorrow" and "2012", this time he's credited as co-producer and one of the co-writers of the story and director which appears to be original but not that entertaining since at that time, he wasn't making big budgeted movies. The idea may be confusing to some, but still much more original than his disaster flicks since the originality comes only in the form of disaster sequences just like comedy, action and horror films which plots are always secondary. It is another bleak futuristic pic and apparently the solar system is running out of precious resources for the only planet to contain any is a planet called "Moon 44". And Moon 44 is being fought over with other rival planets who also send controlled robots to steal it's resources by way of sabotaging the ships the resources are carried in. So the ambassador sends for an infernal affairs agent Felix Stone (Michael Paré) to go undercover with other convicts to uncover the corruption surrounding missing galactic ships. These much bulkier convicts are being recruited for a suicidal mission to fly their futuristic helicopters through mountain peaks/ columns guided by light-weighted convicts to shoot trespassers and in return, they all get their sentences reduced. For awhile the new convicts bully the light-weights but Stone immediately strikes up a relationship with Tyler(Dean Devlin) since he knows something about the missing cargo ships. And while The movie contains many inspirations including "Star Wars", "Bad Boys", "Air Wolf", perhaps "Blue Thunder" etc... it's still an ineffective experience. Malcolm McDowell also stars as the corrupt person that's been in charge.
The good things about this movie is that it's complicatedly original and is not a disaster picture that's often associated with Emmerich's name on it. And I also liked the calm cool collected persona of the Michael Pare character but was disappointed that he doesn't do any kind of fighting in this movie because I as a viewer really wanted to know how tough his character really is and this film failed to show this. Considering "Moon 44"'s budget, it's not a bad effort but needs more action than fake looking modeled helicopters shooting space ships in the air. And because this is the modified version on commercial VHS, I couldn't make out some of the action scenes regarding the futuristic helicopters for it may have been much more clearer had it been shown on widescreen.
2 out of 4 stars
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Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars
03/30/23
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I want to watch this movie.
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01/15/23
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