The A.V. Club by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
Generic but enjoyable with some nifty low-budget effects work.
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Director
Roland Emmerich
Cast
Michael Paré,
Lisa Eichhorn,
Dean Devlin,
Brian Thompson,
Malcolm McDowell,
Leon Rippy
Genre
Science Fiction
Year 2038: The mineral resources of the earth are drained, in space there are fights for the last deposits on other planets and satellites. This is the situation when one of the bigger mining corporations has lost all but one mineral moons and many of their fully automatic mining robots are disappearing on their flight home. Since nobody else wants the job, they send prisoners to defend the mining station. Among them undercover agent Stone, who shall clear the whereabouts of the expensive robots. In an atmosphere of corruption, fear and hatred he gets between the fronts of rivaling groups.
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The A.V. Club by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
Generic but enjoyable with some nifty low-budget effects work.
Time Out London
The film looks nice but unoriginal (blue light, dry ice, flashing instrument panels); the model work is okay but laboured; the acting is stunningly mediocre.
Empire by Kim Newman
The plot unravels in unwieldy dollops, and, despite some adequate special effects (for the time), the whole thing is really a bit of a bore.
TV Guide Magazine
It's eye-filling, to say the least, but there's not much tension or sense of danger.
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