Jeanskynebu
the audience applauded
BootDigest
Such a frustrating disappointment
Smartorhypo
Highly Overrated But Still Good
zetes
Star Trek's Walter Koenig and The Evil Dead's Bruce Campbell are astronauts who discover a wrecked spacecraft orbiting the moon. They bring back some debris which turns out to be a killer robot. Later, they're sent back to the moon to investigate further, and discover an ancient astronaut (Leigh Lombardi) who has been in suspended animation up there for millennia. This is a very cheap B-movie. It's kind of amusing, but certainly not very good. I lost interest and got distracted during the last half hour, and there seemed to be some big twists, but I watched it a second time and it turned out to be disappointingly straightforward.
AaronCapenBanner
Walter Koenig takes on a starring role as Col. Jason Grant, who, along with his co-pilot Ray Tanner(played by Bruce Campbell) is manning a routine space shuttle flight sometime in the 1990's when they encounter a derelict alien spaceship containing an ancient humanoid corpse and a self-contained cylinder that are brought back to Earth where they cause a deadly incident that convinces authorities to send Grant & Tanner back to the moon to investigate, where they encounter a sinister alien power determined to invade the Earth... Campy film has two appealing performances by Koenig and Campbell, but an unoriginal story that fizzles out by the simplistic climax. Not bad really, though the music score is unmemorable, and plot reminiscent of the film "Lifeforce".
Rob_Taylor
Well, this isn't going to be a classic! That said, it is clear they tried very hard with the resources they had available.Although many will look at the weak model effects and scoff at them, they actually brought back fond memories for me of the time before CGI. When filmmakers had to use models and think of more imaginative ways to get the effects done.I admit, I was drawn to it because of the presence of the two stars, Walter Koenig and Bruce Campbell. Chekov and Ash, in one film! Almost as much a surprise was the fact that Campbell out acted Koenig (who was not bad by any measurement!) I always did have the feeling that Bruce could have been a good actor, if he'd been given the chance. Movies like this prove that he can be more than just a comedy foil.As far as the plot went, it was coherent and easily followed. Everything is dated, of course, and that is to be expected. But it holds up pretty well, especially for those of us who remember when movies couldn't show everything in glorious HD CGI.SUMMARY: Cheesy '80's movie which is a tad more serious than it really needed to be. Enjoyable once, especially for the main pairing. Don't expect the kinds of production values and effects you find today and you'll be pleasantly surprised.
Henk Rooijackers
Although the Romans already stated "de gustibus non disputandum" (you cannot argue about taste), I liked this movie very much! It has the kind of atmosphere I am longing for in a SciFi movie! A lot of mysteries (we are fully kept in the dark about the origins of the moon base and the mysterious old spaceship, which the space shuttles encounters in orbit) and presented as such in a way, that my fantasy can jump with giant leaps during the entire movie! I even don't WANT to know where they came from!!! The "human slashing" is a bit overdone for my taste, but then again...it depends on what you are looking for - I guess. The special effects could be better, but they don't disturb me at all: as a matter of fact they are indeed more accurate than in other comparable movies! At the time it really was timed perfectly: a lot of conspiracy theories were posted about Apollo astronauts hiding secrets from us (secret alien moon bases, UFOs, etc.), which made this film even more believable than normal.It really is the kind of movie, which deserves a sequel: maybe we can then get more insight into the origins of the unknown people - or even better: run into new mysteries. Of course Walter Koenig is now a bit too old, but a SERIOUS remake of Moontrap - followed by an equally SERIOUS sequel! - would make me very happy indeed!
