Official Score = 2 Devils[/caption]Directed by: Albert Magnoli (American Anthem) & starring: Paul Mercurio (Exit To Eden), Harley Jane Kozak (Arachnophobia), Michael York (Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery), Maria Ford (Alien Terminator), Ed O'Ross (Universal Soldier) & Phil Morris (Atlantis: The Lost Empire).
Dark Planet is kind of an interesting tale of how a few hundred years from now, the final world war will be fought between regular humans and mutants (known as the, 'Rebels') and genetically altered humans (known as the, 'Alpha's') on Earth and elsewhere...
You see toward the tale end of the war, a toxin is released in to the air that ends up mutating and slowly destroying all life on the planet ... There only salvation is a new habitable planet that is at the other side of a dangerous wormhole, that had been discovered by a man by the name of, 'Anson Hawke' (Mercurio).
So both sides decide to declare a truce and send teams on board a ship that will be commanded by both Captain Winter (York) & Colonel Liz Brenden (Kozak)...
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Colonel Liz Brendan (Harley Kozak) will have to make the tough choices on her mission of mercy, when her and her group will be betrayed![/caption]Now after they launch though, everything starts off fine enough, they go and find Hawke at the Alpha Penal Colony and take him on board (he was the only person to have ever successfully navigated the the dangerous wormhole, and off they go...
But as they make it to the wormhole, they end up discovering that it has been mined using Rebel mines, and is being controlled by a profiteer... As they get passed these obstacles, the Rebels begin to notice strange things like a whole section of the ship that they had been told had been rendered uninhabitable, actually being inhabited by a Alpha hit squad... And because of all of this, we will end up finding out if old enemies can truly put their differences aside for the common good or not!
In the end this movie does take some getting used to, this is due to the fact that, A: It demonstrates a poor belief in mankind being able to unify.
B: I also thought that the special effects in this movie were pretty lame in what the weapons they had were. (I mean most of the weapons in this movie look like the standard weapons that we have in the modern day... except apparently hundreds of years in the future!
If you are a fan of 90s B Movies though, then I do think that you might find out that you really like this one!
http://youtu.be/xmMWld-QBp4
