the audience applauded

Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

This is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

This one was like "Aliens" without the aliens... or maybe it was more like a sci-fi slasher movie... Yes, that's it, a sci-fi slasher B-flick. Some folks say that this movie steals the basic premise of "The Dirty Dozen" and puts it in outer space. Indeed, here we have a group of convicts turned into soldiers and sent off to a planet to secure a space station (or something). Amongst them are a religious fanatic female military doctor, a drug-addict/rapist, a nymphomaniac, and Corey Feldman as a computer nerd. The space station looks, of course, like an old factory. You know the drill: all of them get slaughtered (in a not too bloody way) one by one. Lots of running around, lots of shooting and near the end you won't even care about who's doing the killing or if the mutant make-up looks cool or not. I managed to sit through it without too many problems, so I guess it could have been worse.

Why do folks bother to make such films? Here was have a Dirty Dozen plot with the Doz led, not by Lee Marvin, but a very hot babe who used to be the spotted chick on some Star Trek spinoff. As usual in horror movies, they enter a sealed place and stupidly separate so they can be picked off one by one by a yellow light. There is utterly no intelligence to any of this. I just got weary as the chars insist on going off alone even though not one time will the yellow light attack any but a single. Yet these futuristic bozos can't see this pattern. Worth 80 minutes of your time if you have nothing else to do.

I thought this would be an interesting movie, after reading the plot outline. When I saw this, the only person in the movie who kept my interest was Rick Springfield. I thought the others did try their best with the script, but it was not their faults. If only the script had been a little better, I think this movie could have been a major hit.

Overall I felt this was a good film, but the first five minutes? Since I'd just paid to hire the video I wasn't going to give up that easily but I really worried what the rest of the film would be like.Once the mission begins the film improved markedly so that by the time it finished I was quite impressed. Well worth watching.