
A futuristic, sensitive tale of adventure and confrontation when a 10 year old boy is accidentally kidnapped by a spaceship filled with a motley crew of space pirates.... (Full plot summary below)
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A futuristic, sensitive tale of adventure and confrontation when a 10 year old boy is accidentally kidnapped by a spaceship filled with a motley crew of space pirates.
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| Blu-ray.comBrian OrndorfAll the space battles and rogue banter in the world can't scrape away the crummy penny-pinching vibe of this excessively noisy feature. |
| User ReviewJed D"Sci-Fi, at its finest!" Never, would have I ever imagined, that I would stumble upon this childhood classic, again. Thumbs up! |
| User ReviewMatthew RGee I loved this movie as a kid, it was quite dark and warped me a bit. Although it has a lot of early-80's-flaws it's got a lot of sci-fi gold. Ok, admittedly the 4 stars is probably partly because of the effect it had on me as a kid, you'd be surprised how interesting the atmosphere it had and how morbid it was compared to the bigger sci-fi movies that came before (and after) it. If I get the chance, I hope I can warp many young children with a movie that I can't help but think partly made me who I am today. |
| User ReviewAdam E80's sci fi action which is err like every other low budget sci fi action movie of the period! So you get the awesome matt paintings, the sets made of other sci fi movies and loads of aliens! Theres a restaurant that looks like a poor mans mos aisley cantina but its still a laugh! Start of all serious, then gets laid back in the middle leading to a rather dark final act. The characters are as you would expect lacking in substance aside from certain key players (like rough and ready captain hawk who comes of like han solos dad). The special effects are as cheesey as hell but loads of fun (even if they dont tend to match whats happening in the ship!) and thou its a bit silly it whizzes through at a fast pace and theres rarely a scene were somethings not been blown up! Theres a lot better out there but theres also a lot worse. Maybe one to pop on the side for when you have a free few hours! |
| User ReviewCris HRecycles the already amazing score and special effects from BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS. Just about works as a stand alone film (I mainly watched it for the effects, I dont have a copy of BBTS I can watch). Some bold themes - space pirates and evil corporations. The brat may annoy some but otherwise not a bad movie. |
| User ReviewRichard DI was hoping this would be a cheesy B-Movie space opera romp with lots of piracy, swashbuckling, and evil space empires. And, well, we get all those things. Just not in large quantities. Except the cheese. The whole plot of the film is that space bandits accidentally kidnap a kid. The bad potential for annoying child sidekicks aside, that's a good plot. It leaves a lot of themes to work with, from the man rediscovering his sense of responsibility to a kid learning to fit in. All joined together by a shared adventure of piracy or escape or whatever. But no, the guy falls for with the kid almost immediately and decides to risk everything to get him home. The kid does take a little longer to warm up to him, but mainly expresses it by wandering away constantly. Of course, he still does that even when he's come to trust them and crewmembers are dying left and right to save him, so maybe that's not actually connected to his mistrust. Yeah, the boy's about as annoying as you might expect. Actually, the kid's not that bad for a child actor with bad direction, it's just that he's written to be utterly useless and ungrateful yet everybody loves him. About the only time he works as a character is when he and obvious father figure Hawk bond over learning how to fire the ship's guns. The plot is... well it's there. There's something resembling a plot in all this mess, though I can't tell you what was supposed to be going on since we have no clear bad guy so much as several people who appear and disappear irregularly. The only consistent plot point is that the crew wants to bring the boy home. But they can't because of something about a robot ship. And the captain of seedy space station can't send him home because that would call attention to him? Or something. Really, a film like this which relies on such basic motives has no business being this confusing. I wasn't even clear which bad guys were attacking them at various intervals. Or why. Productionwise this film is not only cheap it LOOKS cheap. Robots are guys in padded suites. Aliens wear cheap rubber masks. Costumes are just plain cloth. Spaceships are reused from Battle Beyond the Stars, another B-Movie with no budget. The soundtrack's stolen from there too. And the acting makes home videos look like Citizen Kane. The death scenes are particularly amusing. But when a movie obviously doesn't care its hard for the audience to care either. |