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3.0 out of 5 stars
Space rage is all the rage, March 6, 2003
This review is from: Space Rage [VHS] (VHS Tape)
"B" movies don't get any better than this, that's why there's such a thing as "A" movies. The character of the colonel was kind of interesting... he was like an eighty-year-old Mad Max. Would've been neat if they focused on him more. The music [was bad ]. It gave the movie a [less than quality] feeling. The acting was good, considering the circumstances. Even the black guy form Married With Children was here... No Ma'am! I also recognized the other guy (he played the Governor) who was in "The Doomsday Machine" from Star Trek. Still you have to wonder how this movie ever got made.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
the best I have seen in years, May 25, 2002
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This review is from: Space Rage [VHS] (VHS Tape)
this is the best movie I have ever seen.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
"Dead Men Don't Dig.", June 18, 2008
This review is from: Space Rage [VHS] (VHS Tape)
"Space Rage" is approximately equal parts "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" and "Battlefield Earth". It's another prison planet travesty starring Michael Paré as the cold-blooded Grange, who is sentenced to a life of extraterrestrial mining for robbing a bank in a mall. On the good side of the law is veteran character actor Richard Farnsworth as a retired LAPD cop who is out for revenge in a very unoriginal plot. Unfortunately the talents of the great Emmy-winning actor William Windom (you may remember him as Commodore Matt Decker from "The Doomsday Machine" episode of the original "Star Trek" series) are squandered here as the Governor of the planet. Windom is clearly the best actor in the film, but even his presence can't save this planet from doomsday.
The film features endless clips of dune buggies and attempted prison breaks; there are also subplots about intestinal laser diode smuggling and mass kidnapping. About this time the audience could really use a good diversion: fortunately the director had a faux-pop song called "Blood Money" available to him. I lost count of how many times this horrible piece of music was offered up to the audience, but if memory serves it was somewhere around a million. Seriously, the filmmakers absolutely love this song: I am betting that you won't.
The movie is extremely predictable, is full of bad acting, a terrible script, and sizeable holes in the plot, yet I found redeeming points. It really is just a spaghetti western in space, and is actually kind of fun in a hokey B-movie way. Although it's no great work of cinema, I am going to round the two and a half stars it deserves to three based on the presence of William Windom and some totally laughable special effects.
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