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3.5/10   121 votes
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Director:
Paolo Mazzucato
Writers:
Brian DiMuccio (writer)
Dino Vindeni (writer)
Release Date:
6 December 1997 (USA) more
Genre:
Action | Sci-Fi more
Tagline:
Welcome to the dark side of the moon. more
Plot:
The most dangerous criminals in the universe escape from the Off-World Penitentiary and stow away to the quiet Moonbase Waste Disposal Plant... more | add synopsis
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User Comments:
A tedious and uninspired affair more (5 total)

Cast

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Scott Plank ... John Russell

Jocelyn Seagrave ... Dana Morgan
Robert O'Reilly ... Karl Stark
Kurt Fuller ... Deckert

Randy Vasquez ... Masani
Gretchen Palmer ... Mina Lang
Stack Pierce ... Will

Billy Maddox ... Lt. Colonel Caldecott
John Philbin ... Lucas

Samantha Phillips ... DreamGirl (as Sam Phillips)

George 'Buck' Flower ... Murdoch

Sheila Korsi ... Masani's Mom
Brian Teshera ... Loomis
Mel Novak ... Guard
Andre Rosey Brown ... Sanitation Engineer
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R for sci-fi violence and some sexuality.
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Runtime:
89 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Certification:
Australia:M | USA:R | UK:15
Filming Locations:
Apex Electronics - 8909 San Fernando Road, Sun Valley, Los Angeles, California, USA more
Company:
Live Entertainment more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The space prison guards wear East German army uniforms and rank insignia. more
Quotes:
Murdoch: Well just settle down and relax, while I finish telling you the Armstrong story.
Lucas: OK
Murdoch: Well His first words were 'Congratulations Mr. Gorsky.'
Lucas: Right
Murdoch: Well a lot of theories popped up about what Armstrong meant, like maybe he saw something up here that proved the Russians made it first or that he was some kind of double agent sending a message to Moscow. Finally he got sick of hearing about it so he decides to set the record straight...
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1 out of 4 people found the following comment useful.
A tedious and uninspired affair, 29 March 2007
2/10
Author: Mondo_Giallo from Edinburgh, Scotland

I watched this movie last night and already I am struggling to recollect very much about it. The story is about a group of criminals who escape from a space penal colony. They fly to the Moon in a space-age dustbin carrier; when there, they terrorise the dustbin men who work on the Moonbase.

It strikes me that rubbish low-budget sci-fi films often involve either desert planets or, like this movie, criminals escaping from penal colonies. Why this is I have no idea. But I can say with some certainty that such films are always diabolical. This one is really no exception. It begins reasonably well with a decent credit sequence and a half-way alright dance music soundtrack. It then degenerates into a boring sci-fi thriller. So little of consequence actually happens in this movie that I am literally struggling to write a helpful review, so if you're reading this I apologise for not being able to enlighten you to the film's subtleties and nuances. For the record, I recall a tedious bunch of baddies, a tedious bunch of goodies, some nuclear warheads and a hologram of a naked woman. Other than that, I'm struggling.

If you feel you could be interested in the activities of lunar dustbin men then I would not hesitate to recommend this film. I would also recommend it to those of you who wish to send their friends to sleep and steal their wallets.

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