Official Score = 1 Devil[/caption]If you’re like me, then you will generally tend to find B-Movies to be rather fun… especially B Science fiction films. I mean I know that technically B-Movies are considered to be, ‘Bad’ Movies, but for my money, there are more than a few B-Movies that are not that bad!
On that note though, there are the Hollywood A list films that are supposed to be the best of the best when it comes to films, then there are what I would say, ‘Good’ B-Movies (Basically those B Movies that never got enough of a chance, but are genuine classics.) Then there are crummy B-Movies…
Now when I mean when I say, ‘a crummy B-Movie’, I am talking about a movie that is so bad, that there is little to no redeeming quality to it… And that was the case with, Galaxis (1995)…
Written by: Nick Davis (DNA), and Directed by: William Mesa (Darkening). Starring: Brigitte Nielsen (Cobra), Richard Moll (House), Craig Fairbass (Hijacked), Sam Raimi (The Evil Dead), John H, Brennan (SeaQuest 2032), Fred Asparagus (Dragnet), Roger Aaron Brown (Star Trek: The Motion Picture), Cindy Morgan (Tron), Michael Paul Chan (Falling Down), Richard Narita (Murdered By Death), and Kristin Bauer (True Blood).
This movies tells a sort of confusing tale of how a group of Aliens (that look like humans) called the, ‘Centaurans’ are being chased by another human looking Alien by the name of Kyla (Moll)… Now the reason for this is that Kyla wants a magical crystal that as it turns out is the whole reason for the existence of this civilization!
Anyway, Kyla ends up sending his forces to the Centaurans last stand, and take over the colony as well as their precious stone… But just after Kyla delivers the fatal blow to the leader of that species, ‘Lord Tarkin’ (Fairbass)… Lord Tarkin’s sister, ‘Ladera’ (Nielsen) comes back and discovers her brother on the ground and that the only way to save her race is to go to Earth and find the second weird magical diamond (and this is where I am a little hazy, not because I forgot this part of the movie, but that was how the movie was made), but that it was either on the Earth of the present, or it was on Earth in the past, or it was in another dimension… I can’t say for certain…
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Jed Sanders (John H. Brennan) & Ladera (Brigitte Nielsen) as they try to work together![/caption]Either way, Ladera travels to Earth in search of it, and comes across Jed Sanders (A.K.A. Jett Centers… Don’t ask me why, I really could not tell you) who as an antique importer/exporter has actually come across the diamond in his travels! The only problem is that even though he has it, he also happens to be in trouble with the mob, (and possibly the Police)…
So when he and Ladera team up, of course they lose the diamond and have to find it before Kyla does… the only problem is that to do so, they have to get passed the mob, some cops… And possible the Chinese Triads…
In the end this movie is pretty awful, the story has some merit in its concept, but the script was so mediocre, that the idea could never really be realized. Surprisingly enough, they got more than a few great actors (again they were overshadowed by the mountain of crappy actors and actresses they got to fill the gap.) As a matter of fact, the only thing that I thought the good outweighed the bad on was the special effects… Those I will admit were pretty good for a B Science Fiction Film.
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