Space Truckers
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Movie Reviews of Space Truckers
Movie Review: Stuart Gordon's Star Wars
Summary: 4 Stars
Space Truckers is a different kind of movie than we're used to seeing from Gordon. It's a little more lighthearted, comical, and slick looking. Plus it's PG-13, so the over the top gore isn't present.
But the movie is alot of fun. It's silly sci-fi nonsense that aims to be nothing more than a fun popcorn flick.
Dennis Hopper is a space trucker who gets screwed out of getting paid for his load by an evil pork company. He then takes on an unregistered and illegal load to transport to Earth. Little does he know that his cargo is a small army of indestructible killer robots designed by a mad scientist to enable a loon to secure his presidency. Along for this ride are a rookie space trucker played by Stephen Dorff and Hopper's "fiance" played by Debi Mazar. They're hijacked by pirates who unleash the robots. It also just so happens that the leader of the pirates is the mad scientist who created the robots. He's half machine, which leads to some rather funny scenes.
So, Hopper and company have to escape the pirates, stop the evil robots and get to Earth where Debi Mazar's mother is in the hospital. It's good, fun stuff that reminds me of films like The Ice Pirates and Flash Gordon. The film was shot entirely in Ireland, and I'm not sure what the budget for the movie was, but the it looks like they definitely made the most of the budget. Very slick and professional looking, almost as if it could have been made in Hollywood. Hopper is Hopper, what can you say? Dorff is passable, but nothing special, Mazar is also okay but nothing special. I certainly don't think she's as hot as you're supposed to believe she is. The always reliable Charles Dance plays the evil scientist/pirate leader/cyborg with the same sophisticated flair in which he usually plays villains.
I was fortunate enough to see this movie at a test screening with Stuart Gordon back in 1997 at the University of Wisconsin. Gordon did a little Q&A with the audience after the film. The movie went over quite well with the audience that night. It was a fun experience and one reason why this movie is particularly close to me.
Well worth it.
Movie Review: Nice little suprise
Summary: 4 Stars
A friend put this on for me the other night and the minute I heard the words "Dennis Hopper" and "low budget sci fi" I groaned with anticipated discomfort, but was pleasantly suprised by Space Truckers' contents. While far from profound, the film's acceptable Odyssy-esque story takes second chair to a wacked-out, 100% convincing vision of the future and the community of characters who inhabit the portions of it that the film concerns itself with, some of which was quite memorable;A pirate thug named "Scummy", square zero-g pigs, a bar/diner set in a revolving hub ala 2001 to simulate gravity, self-defense mechanisms with apparent senses of humor, and an uproarious, innappropriately hilarious death machine monster that is right out of Red Dwarf. The film has an irreverent view about it's idiom, manages some effective sex appeal amidst the laughs, and has a kind of upbeat infectiveness that might be tied into the comic book/cartoonishly bright color palette that manages to seep into almost every shot.
And in the end what impressed me the most about Space Trucker was that, like the great satires that have come before it who also fashion their own self-contained universes where our laws of physics might not necessarily apply [The Simpson's and Shakes the Clown coming to mind immediately], the filmmakers wisely kept within the framework of the genre they were creating for -- schlocky modestly budgeted sci fi -- and by not bothering to aim any higher produced one of the most entertaining films I have sat through in months. Highly recommended, and destined for some sort of "cult" status when it is rediscovered.
Movie Review: Main Stars are Dennis Hopper, Stephen Dorff, Charles Dance, Debbi Mazar
Summary: 4 Stars
It makes me crazy to see the stars listed for a movie or TV series are NOT the main characters. Amazon, apparently, has copied the actor list from www.imdb.com and so the main characters, who appear further on down the list, do not even appear after the title of the movie. A potential buyer of this DVD would be looking for the main characters not the bit players.
I have tried to move up the stars in a DVD's list of actors before but have been rejected. Sometimes, but not always, someone actually looks at what I am trying to do and fixes the problem. Example: On Tour of Duty, a female actress was in a few episodes of ONE season but she was the only name Amazon put for all 3 seasons instead of Terrence Knox, et al. Doesn't make sense. It was finally fixed.
By the way, I really like this movie and would recommend it to those who like sci-fi action movies with good actors (characters!).
Movie Review: low-budget sci-fi at its zenith
Summary: 4 Stars
Space Truckers is one of those films that promises so little that it really can't disappoint. I mean the name of the movie is friggin' Space Truckers. However, when all is said and done the story contains humor, pirates, adventure, greed, sex and space violence (always good). It is an incredibly original and unique story in its done-to-death genre. While the film's not about to win any awards forrrr, uh...anything, it will have you laughing and rooting for Dennis Hopper the whole time. Granted sometimes you're laughing with the movie and sometimes at it but the point is you're laughing. If you like "bad" sci-fi movies this is one of the best. Give it a shot if you're into these types of flicks. On a serious note the cast contains a few famous faces (George "the fat guy from Cheers" Wendt, Debi Mazaar, Dorff and Dennis Hopper) and overall the acting is pretty good.Movie Review: good flick but watch out for bad discs
Summary: 4 Stars
For its genre this movie is a lot of fun. Dennis Hopper also kicks up the quality a notch. My big complaint is that when I first rented it the dvd would actually freeze if you either tried to view the "making of" segment or play the trivia game. So I waited months before going out and buying a copy. My copy was even worse. The story boards would pop up without ever being set (and I couldn't get rid of them). Again it froze if I tried to play the trivia game. And when I played the "making of segement the audio would skip and the video would freeze up after showing about five skittery frames. What a mess. But I loved the movie itself. Too bad I have to return it. Hope you have better luck.