Starhunter - The Complete Series
by Patrick Malakian, Luc Chalifour, Francois Basset, George Mendeluk
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Actor: Claudette Roche, Michael Pare, Murray Melvin, Stephen Marcus, Tanya AllenDirector: Francois Basset, George Mendeluk, Luc Chalifour, Patrick Malakian
Brand: Echo
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 1056 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-05-29
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: 48689
Studio: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
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- The year is 2275. Earth has colonized the entire solar system, but things are dangerous out there. Enter Dante Montana (Michael Par , BloodRayne, Crash Landing), a reluctant bounty hunter haunted by his past, who, along with his crew, travels the universe in pursuit of dangerous interplanetary criminals, including The Raiders an evil force that Dante believes kidnapped his son. Meanwhile, covert f
Movie Reviews of Starhunter - The Complete Series
Movie Review: More Foreboding Than Torchwood
Summary: 5 Stars
Torchwood is the only other SciFi series I can truly compare Starhunter with. I know it bears a much greater superficial resemblance to Firefly, in that it involves a commercial spaceship moving from one dangerous encounter to another. But that's where the similarity with Firefly ends and the similarity with Torchwood begins. Where Firefly, for all the danger and violence the crew encounters, is essentially an upbeat show presenting the triumph of good over evil, Starhunter - like Torchwood - presents a rather bleak picture of the real world, in which the good guys may triumph, but at a cost almost greater than whatever victory they attain. And, as with Torchwood, it makes for a riveting experience watching the stories unfold with unexpected twists and turns that render the inevitable defeat of the bad guys as almost anti-climactic. In only one of the stories, in fact - Cell Game - was the ending satisfying in the usual SciFi sort of way.
The three main characters are among the most unique SciFi characters the genre has to offer. The first two episodes I despised Percy (the Tanya Allen character) as a meddling brat; but, as the season unfolded, she actually became the most sensible and most useful in getting the crew through whatever they encountered. Both Dante (Michael Pare) and Luc (Claudette Roche) have overriding obsessions that render them almost useless at times; and they think nothing of risking everything on any chance, however slim, to gratify those obsessions.
The stories are great, with excellent writing, extremely bizarre villains and, in my opinion, very effective special effects - but then, I'm not a special effects freak who finds neat computer gimmicks the be-all and end-all. But the show's not for people who need happy endings to make watching a worthwhile experience. The stories are dark and foreboding, giving a picture of the kind of world one would definitely not wish to live in.
Summary of Starhunter - The Complete Series
The year is 2275. Earth has colonized the entire solar system, but things are dangerous out there. Enter Dante Montana (Michael Paré, BloodRayne, Crash Landing), a reluctant bounty hunter haunted by his past, who, along with his crew, travels the universe in pursuit of dangerous interplanetary criminals, including The Raiders?an evil force that Dante believes kidnapped his son. Meanwhile, covert forces are waging a desperate war to unlock the secrets of the Divinity Cluster?powerful knowledge that in the wrong hands would mean universal domination...FEATURING 22 EPISODES:
Peer Pressure; Trust; Family Values; The Divinity Cluster; Siren's Song; The Man Who Sold the World; Frozen; Past Lives; Order; Cell Game; Black Light; Goodbye, So Long; The Most Wanted Man; Half Dense Players; Dark and Stormy Night; Super Max; A Twist in Time; Eat Sin; Bad Girls; Bad Seed; Travis; Resurrection
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