One of the best films i have seen

Expected more

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

The movie billed as the first space western sets out to entertain, and it succeeds. "Moon Zero Two" is set in 2021 on the moon, where a colony (presumably built by Newt Gingrich?) has attracted a number of people. A former astronaut gets more than he bargained for when he takes on a mission to bring down a sapphire asteroid.The movie very much has the look of one of those 1960s-1970s sci-fi flicks, including some go-go dancers. It's fitting that the movie got released not long after the moon landing, and a lot of the movie appears to have taken inspiration from "2001: A Space Odyssey". The cast includes James Olson (Father in "Ragtime") and Adrienne Corri (Mrs. Alexander in "A Clockwork Orange"). Warren Mitchell played bigot Alf Garnett on "Till Death Us Do Part", on which "All in the Family" was based.You gotta love Hammer movies.

I saw this film as an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and though it was featured on the show, I thought it had its moments. In fact, I would say it is a rather fun film featuring a city on the moon and a heist in space. Hammer generally makes an entertaining film, though usually they are known for horror films. Donald Pleasence was in a couple of their films, and I could so see him as the bad guy in this one mainly because the main villain here wears some rather strange outfits and if you have seen Donald in a film, you know if he is a good guy he dresses in a distinguished way, but if he is the bad guy, prepare to seem him in leather and other completely insane outfits. The effects are dated, but look good for the time and my guess is the budget as well. Sure, you see a lot of lines holding the actors and actresses when in space, but you saw those in the Disney film, "The Black Hole" which was made later and featured a bigger budget and they were more obvious in that one as you could see the clothes being pulled by the wires in that one! So, while not a great film or perfect it is a rather fun film to watch.The story has a pilot of a spaceship who salvages things in space like satellites who comes across a woman who has come to the city on the moon in search of her brother. The pilot is also approached by another man who is rather wealthy who has a business proposition for the pilot as he proposes crashing an asteroid onto the moon. Why you ask? It is basically a huge chunk of sapphire. They have all the details worked out and they complete the first portion of the mission fine, but while waiting for the second phase back on the moon the pilot is once again approached by the woman who has not seen her brother. They go to try and find him and find out there is something sinister behind his disappearance.This movie made for a rather good episode of MST3K, but not because they riffed particularly well, but because they didn't. The movie was good enough that I watch this episode mainly to see the film and maybe chuckle here and there at a riff rather than watching it exclusively for the riffing. It is a first season episode which is why the riffing just is not quite up to the later years on the show, so it is nice that the movie itself helps carry the episode. I did like the bump where Joel recreated the anti gravity fight, like I said, they just were not quite as sharp during the first season, but the film itself made this a good one to watch. They also would riff an Oscar winning movie about space, but if I had to watch either this one or that one, give me this film. It is more fun while I found that one had some okay moments, but was a bore in other.This was not a bad film to me. I like a Hammer made film, and this one had some crazy stuff going on. I would actually like to see the film without MST3K as the film had to have at least twenty minutes cut from it and I am curious as to what is missing. They definitely left enough in so that you are not lost. I like the actors for the most part, but I think someone else in the villain role would have been preferred. I do not know, I just like the way the portrayed the city on the moon and the bar in particular, with the really crummy alcoholic beverages. So, sure it is lame and the effects are dated, but the fun still remains.

Roy Ward Baker directed this bizarre Hammer studios futuristic science fiction/western hybrid that stars James Olsen as Captain William Kemp, basically the gunfighter for hire, and Catherine Schell as Clementine Taplin, who has hired him to investigate the disappearance of her brother, a miner on the moon who was murdered by claim jumpers with a sinister agenda that only they can stop... Extremely silly and dated film has good actors performing with a straight face, which is quite an achievement in sequences involving dancing saloon cowgirls in the moon colony bar-room, for instance, complete with obligatory brawl. Astonishing animated title sequence and song are most incongruous!

I rate this film a 3 (its average here) but as a 10 as a Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode (it was in season 2 I think, the version I just watched), so I'm averaging it around a 6. I noticed a lot of British reviewers here who mostly love this flick. I suppose if I watched this movie in 1969 when I was 6 I would have thought it was cool. Problem is I didn't so it doesn't get any sentimental points from me. This flick is a big rip off of 2001 and UFO, and I suspect they intended to steal from both. It starts off with an extra long cartoon intro with some extra loud jazz bond type intro, it is funny to a point than really irritating, its sooo long. All the reviewers who love this flick seem to think its realistic, ummm I don't think so. I love the realistic part where they find the dead astronaut and its a skeleton, yeah that was soo realistic, did the space fly's get to his dead body? They could have used some sexy green moon women in this trash flick, because if they were trying to be realistic it was a waste of some good camp. The MST3K writers did a fantastic job skewering this flick and it was one of the better episodes I've seen, the time Joel uses the anti gravity to mimic a scene in the movie is dead on hilarious! See it as a MST3K episode and you'll be entertained. You have been warned.