Hottoceame
The Age of Commercialism
Stevecorp
Don't listen to the negative reviews
ChicRawIdol
A brilliant film that helped define a genre
ecanarensis
The best thing I can say about this movie is that it's better than "Dark Metropolis." This is not saying much, to say the least; I turned it off after 10 minutes, if that...I would rather have slashed my wrists than watched that whole thing. I figured this had to be better. It almost was. Maybe. A bit. I had a very bad feeling when in the first 90 seconds, we see an outer space battle & hear deep booming sounds each time one of the ships explodes & the rattatatat of space machine guns(!)...I don't expect movie makers to be physicists, but did they think that it's only screams that you can't hear in space? It's a VACUUM dummies; there is no sound transmission. Kickin' special effects: -ship design by Edward Scissorhands. -"Hey gang, let's glue a bunch of keyboards & random crap to the walls & spraypaint 'em dark grey, it'll look keen!"Capt Jekel talks as if his tongue was shot full of novocaine, but is VERY intense (whatever he's saying). He acts like William Shatner channeling Brad Pitt in "12 Monkeys" (who i always thought was silly). He also sounds constipated.omg obligaroty shower scene walks around covered with blood for hoursKlassic Kuotes: "traitorous vixen"??? "your hate for him runs seductively deep"????? "there isn't a man i can't kill with the promise of a simple kiss."costume had a lot of leg warmers left over, so they used them...as wrist warmers space chick with sexy blasters on her thigh
bowmanblue
Oh, dear... where to begin. 'Scavengers' is a case of something trying to be more than it actually is. The special effects are pretty blatantly computer-generated which doesn't help, but, if it had a decent story or something, I'll wager that most science fiction fans could forgive it its shortcomings.Basically, you have a good ship and a bad ship, both vying for the same salvage in deep space. How do we know which ship is good and which ship is bad? Because both a equally as close to the precise definition of 'good' and 'evil' as you could get – making them both pretty clichéd. The 'good' ship has nice, attractive, kind people who live in a brightly-lit ship with white walls. The 'bad' spaceship is filled with creepy, Gothic-looking people who only want to kill people (and the walls of their ship are black and dimly-lit).The 'story' (for what it is) is just bouncing back from one ship to the other while they try to fight over the salvage (which is worth something... by the way). And it's not just the effects that are a bit shoddy. The script is pretty tired and the actors don't seem to have enough enthusiasm in them to lift the dialogue above its mediocre roots.It has a real 'made for TV' feel to it. It's not the worst movie ever made, but it's far from being the best. If you like you sci-fi a little sparse on the sets and effects department, watch Dr Who – it also has a story and reasonable actors.http://thewrongtreemoviereviews.blogspot.co.uk/
Rene de Bok
This film was the worst I ever watched (and I kept on watching it because of this). I never write reviews but in this case I made an exemption. At the end I thought I watched a film that was produced around 1960. The dialog's were terrible. The switch between scenes was very confusing. The special effects were very simple and totally not realistic. There was a lot of blood (too much). I don't understand what the filmmakers were thinking. They could could not have been serious in making this film and what about the actors? What serious actor would play in such a movie. I think that every beginning filmmaker should be forced to see this film. This would certainly enhance their self perception.
nwsts
I give 1's to very few films...maybe a total of 3 out of a couple of thousand films watched. This movie is well deserving of a 1 and possibly worse. I'm not sure what I could subtract from the already appalling reviews that have accurately described this movie. But let me also warn you that the actors slurred their words (especially the chief villain) and the audio engineering was also horrible. Be forewarned that the sets, costumes, cinematography and special effects were all equally horrible. Finally, let me say the sequencing of the plot (storytelling) was well below amateurish. I watched diligently the first half of the movie (about 45 minutes) and then started fast forwarding through sections, hoping something worthwhile would present itself....to no avail. To the reviewer here who watched it twice looking for something good, you have my respect as a true devotee...and my condolences.
