Official Score = 1 1/2 Devils[/caption]It is unfortunate when a movie has a lot of promise for it but just doesn't quite make the cut as a good movie, I mean those types of movies seem to me to generally almost feel like the makers of the movie are letting down the audience in some capacity, when the movie is good, but just not good enough...
And you know what, unfortunately Moonbase (1997) just happens to be one of those movies!
What do I mean by all of this, well lets start with the cast of Moonbase... There is some truly great B Movie talent in this film, including: Scott Plank (Without Evidence), Jocelyn Seagrave (Thoughtcrimes), Kurt Fuller (Anger Management), Robert O'Reilly (The Mask) & Randy Vasquez (Beverly Hills Cop), and that is just to name a few...
But there was some truly dull acting... Almost like these people have just started in the industry and some how had gotten their first parts before knowing really what they are doing... An example of this is: 'Billy Maddox' (Recoil), whom all I can say is that I was less then happy with his performance in this movie!
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Unfortunately this movie just didn't quite make the grade![/caption]Now lets go in to the story and the directors vision of it... Let me just say that I love B Movies, and B Movies happen to be movies that are considered to be, 'bad' movies... With that said though, this movie had a great story concept (about a group of convicts that escape from an orbiting prison facility and make it to the moon, where they end up finding WMDS and intend to use them to get home...) A fascinating concept for a movie...
The reality is that I think that there was some very far fetched moments in the movie... Including the military soldiers going out to recover the nuclear weapons before securing the base... And well lets be honest... The convicts being able to travel around the base unchecked to begin with...
In the end, in my opinion, the best part of this movie was the special effects, I mean I love B Movie special effects, and this movie's B movie special effects never stopped being cool!
In the end, this movie had it's moments... Just not enough to make this movie worth my time...
