Screamers

Screamers
by Christian Duguay

Screamers
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Actor: Andrew Lauer, Charles Edwin Powell, Jennifer Rubin, Peter Weller, Roy Dupuis
Director: Christian Duguay
DVD: 2 Sides, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.33:1
Running Time: 108 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-07-29
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures

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Movie Review: A really poor sci-fi shaggy dog story
Summary: 2 Stars

I really like Peter Weller, but this thing is a turkey. Well, not really a turkey, but a shaggy dog story. Part "Alien", part "Terminator", and part "Tremors", the film just plods along. Just as you can see the shaggy dog punch line far in advance of it at long last being said, we know things about these characters that are meant to be surprising and shocking, but never are.

The film is set on another planet that was a promising mining outpost. I never quite get the mining thing in space travel. Given its cost and difficulty, why do you want to transport heavy raw ore by rockets? Space travel must become easier and less expensive than big rig trucking in the future! Anyway, something about the substance they mine has the drawback of killing the miners. The political situation on Earth contributes to the heated situation on this outpost. One side, Weller's side, has put little robot weapons on the planet to fight the rebels, but the robots end up having other plans. Oops.

Enjoy this if you can. Peter Weller is the only thing in it, but even so it is a turkey. This was based on a Philip K. Dick story, and so that should give it some status, but for me it was just too obvious and each new "shocking revelation" made it more tiresome.

Reviewed by Craig Matteson, Ann Arbor, MI

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