
A professional thief is hired by the FBI to steal a data tape from a company under investigation. The analysis of this tape, will prove the criminal activities of this company. As this thief is discovered in his attempt, he hides the tape inside a prototype car, but unfortunately there is someone else interested in this vehicle.... (Full plot summary below)
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A professional thief is hired by the FBI to steal a data tape from a company under investigation. The analysis of this tape, will prove the criminal activities of this company. As this thief is discovered in his attempt, he hides the tape inside a prototype car, but unfortunately there is someone else interested in this vehicle.
Leave your thoughts about Black Moon Rising.
| Los Angeles TimesMichael WilmingtonIt’s swift and mean--a little empty perhaps, but not enough to distract you from its pleasures: the stark, brilliantly metallic gleam cinematographer Misha Suslov puts on his images, the psycho-electric jabs of the Lalo Schifrin score, the clean thrust of the plot, the furiously lucid action and the canny, almost stylized, minimalist performances of the actors (Jones, Hamilton, Vaughn, Richard Jaeckel, Keenan Wynn, Ving, Smith and the others). The movie may be shallow, but it’s also trim. It has that easy virtue of the old-line Hollywood B film: little visible excess fat. |
| Washington PostPaul AttanasioThe film sounds pretty silly, and it is, but it's not painful to watch. Harley Cokliss, the director, and John Carpenter, Desmond Nakano and William Gray, who wrote the screenplay, never allow credibility to worry them, or even those of us in the audience. Like a stolen car, it moves pretty fast, if erratically. It has a tendency to put Quint into impossible situations from which he walks away with unexplained ease. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatIt took three screenplay writers to concoct this rather unamazing action-thriller about cars, thieves, and dirty tricks. |
| IGNSean CarlsonAs is often the case, what makes this film so enjoyable is the cast. |
| BBCAlmar HaflidasonTommy Lee Jones wisecracks his way after the Black Moon supercar in this intriguing action film that was to prove highly influential for the later "Die Hard". |
| Chicago ReaderDave KehrCokliss's direction strains for a stylishness it doesn't achieve, yet his fundamentally straightforward style brings out the abstract design of the plot. Is this the first cubist thriller? |
| The Film YapNick RogersOne long, fuel economy-eroding idle before a mildly interesting vehicle stunt. For all its potential, "Black Moon Rising" only proves history's deep, dark cracks are there for a reason and some movies are fated to fall into them at 325 miles an hour. |
| User ReviewTuomas SCool 80s action film with Tommy Lee Jones (The Fugitive) and Linda Hamilton (The Terminator), story by John Carpenter (Halloween, Escape From New York) which makes the film more worth watching. |
| User ReviewTom Dthe top action flick of 1986, history in the making! |
| User ReviewBonnieOne of my all time favorite movies...Tommy Lee Jones rocks as the bad boy hero |