Jeffrey S
Classic Sci Fi from the late 80s. Definitely a must see if you love sci fi alien invasions that are gory and a struggle. One of my sci fi favs from my youth that was a blast for all of the kids!!
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
11/02/24
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Bikerpumba J
So bad I couldn't even watch the ending 1 hour. Everything looked so fake in it.
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Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars
09/25/24
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Steve D
Some fun will be had watching these two stars together but not enough to make up for the rest of it.
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Rated 2 out of 5 stars
11/20/23
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Audience Member
Terrible FX for the 90s, laws of physic, logic and common sense of the characters were abandoned entirely. One star for an almost comical over all performance.
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars
02/14/23
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william k
OK sci-fi alien invasion drama is foremost watchable for its good and imaginative special effects, but also has suspense and a welcome performance by Walter Koenig.
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
03/31/23
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Okay, the special effects are B-rate, and there are some big holes in the story. However, this is Walter Koenig (Chekov from Star Trek) and Bruce Campbell (Ash from Evil Dead) together as astronauts. They are on a shuttle mission when a derelict vessel falls into Earth's gravity. They investigate and Jason (Walter Koenig) investigates and brings back a metal object and a corpse. The items are brought to a NASA lab. The items are found to be 14,000 years old and originated on the moon. After some excitement from the container opening and a robot attacking NASA before being shot and destroyed, there is a discussion about the need to go back to the moon to investigate the origin site. There is a discussion about how NASA no longer has the hardware to go to the moon, the space shuttle is not capable of it. Ray (Bruce Campbell) points out that there is still one complete Apollo Saturn V Rocket in mothballs. This was exciting, because it is true! There is also a scene where we see Jason talking with his son, and Jason is wearing a t-shirt with a humpback whale on it (very cool Star Trek IV reference!). So, the President approves the mission and the last remaining Saturn V is reactivated. Jason, Ray and their command module pilot, Beck, head to the moon. Unfortunately the launch and trip to the moon happen off camera....probably due to budget.
Jason and Ray descend to the lunar surface. Luckily, due to their dangerous encounter with the robot at NASA, they are well armed. After some travel, Jason and Ray find a huge old structure that apparently could never be seen from orbit. They find a woman (Mera) in suspended animation and revive her. After an initial fright, she realizes Jason and Ray are human and she goes with them. Robots however seem to be dragging away the lunar lander, so Jason and Ray need to chase it in the lunar rover. They follow the tracks and find an alien ship. Sadly, Bruce Campbells' character Ray is killed by one of the robots. In a scene that made no sense, Beck and the Command module are attacked by electric arcs and the command module crashes on the moon, leaving Jason and the mystery woman stranded. So, Jason pulls a "space tent" off the rover, sets it up and he and the woman go inside. It is apparently pressurized and they can take their suits off and fool around. Why not.....they're stranded on the moon....right?
Robots attack and instead of killing Jason and Mera like they did Ray and Beck, they are taken prisoner aboard the alien ship and put in restraints. Jason sees human body parts and concludes the robots need human for "spare parts". This made no sense because the robots are not cyborgs, they are all mechanical. Jason gets free and frees Mera and they look for an exit and see they are approaching Earth. NASA apparently got a shuttle up to shoot down the alien ship, but the aliens disable the shuttle similar to how they disabled the lunar command module. However this time the shuttle survives. Jason sees the lunar lander. The alien robots apparently needed the lunar lander as the final component to make their ship operational. Jason activates a self-destruct mechanism on the lander (we assume nuclear). Using his weapon, Jason is able to propel himself and Mera to the shuttle, which apparently picks them up after the alien ship explodes.
Jason and Mera are back on Earth and she is apparently happy. She doesn't revel anything about who she is or what kind of civilization they had there on the moon. It is assumed all debris from the alien ship burned up on the atmosphere, but we see one of the alien containers land in a car scrapyard, suggesting a sequel.
We never got a sequel. We eventually got Moontrap Target Earth, which was so bad I had to shut it off half an hour into it. The acting and writing was so bad I couldn't take it.
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
02/10/23
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