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The Apocalypse (1997) -- A salvage pilot and a bartender go up against a crazed computer programmer and the head of a criminal gang who have equipped a spaceship with nuclear warheads and plan to crash it into Earth.

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Overview

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Writer:
J Reifel (writer)
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Genre:
Action | Sci-Fi more
Tagline:
The end of the world is about to begin...
Plot:
A salvage pilot and a bartender go up against a crazed computer programmer and the head of a criminal gang who have equipped a spaceship with nuclear warheads and plan to crash it into Earth. | add synopsis
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User Comments:
So bad it's good more

Cast

  (Credited cast)

Sandra Bernhard ... J.T. Wayne
Cameron Dye ... Lennon
Frank Zagarino ... Vendler
Michelle Anne Johnson ... Misha

Lee Arenberg ... Noel
Merle Kennedy ... Mailai

Teddy Lane Jr. ... Rugby

Matt McCoy ... Suarez

Laura San Giacomo ... Goad

Spencer Garrett ... Charlie
Brandon Hooper ... Mason

Dwayne Macopson ... Willis
Craig Strong ... Figgis

Norm Skaggs ... Smuggler Captain
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Carol Barbee ... Lieutenant Robing
Sedena M. Conley ... Programmer
Dorian Gregory ... Lieutenant
Gerald Henderson ... Ben
Red Horton ... Tank

Carlos Lacamara ... Captain Bryant
Jim Staples ... Man In Bar (as Ames Staples)
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R for violence.
Runtime:
Canada:96 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Certification:
UK:18 | USA:R
Filming Locations:
Burbank, California, USA

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Soundtrack:
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6 out of 6 people found the following comment useful:-
So bad it's good, 24 August 2002
10/10
Author: Easter Bradford from New Orleans, LA

The plot is somewhat typical of a scifi movie, yet could've had potential: in the past, a crazy woman hijacked a ship carrying enough explosive chemicals to destroy a world. She rigged it so that whoever discovered the ship and reactivated it in the future would be stuck on it in a collision course with Earth. Jump ahead: the ship, thought long lost, reappears and a salvage crew goes to save the contents and make a profit. Unfortunately the second half of the team turns out to be terrorist hijackers with no social conscience who slaughter most of the first half, leaving only two survivors to stop the ship from it's final destination. Sounds exciting, right? There's even a wicked plot twist wherein the crazy woman has recorded video footage of herself reciting Shakespeare quotes that you have to complete every few minutes in order to continue accessing the computer system. Even the characters sound good: a tough-talking female salvage pilot; the naive bartender/wannabe space explorer; the pilot's ex boyfriend, a man so drunken with greed that he'd risk an entire planet to try and turn a profit. The effects are fairly good as well. So why then does this movie fail so horribly? Because the dialouge is some of the worst scriptwriting EVER. An example: Bad Guy With Gun Pointed at Door - "Little Pigs, Little Pigs, Let Me In! (BLAM!) Or I'll Huff! (BLAM!) And I'll Puff! (BLAM!)" You get the idea. The incredible talented of Sandra Bernhard and Laura San Giacomo (left with the incredible task of free-associating Shakespeare with a mentally deranged space woman) are wasted in this film that's so bad you might just enjoy it if you're in the mood to mock it while you're watching.

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