Highly Overrated But Still Good

A Masterpiece!

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.

This wasn't that bad a movie although there were a couple of not possible's. Ships in space do not make externally audible noise, space is a vacuum and noise won't travel in it. Oh well. An interesting beginning to the whole show is when you learn that do to all the cyber crime that cash is the only monetary medium in use now. The plot of the movie has a nice twist when the robbers blow an asteroid so a chunk of it, on a carefully plotted course, will collide with the money ship. When the ship is intercepted by the bad guys the first to die is the captain, still in hibernation. The first robber to die is the stereotypical black man. Then we find out the ship's engineer is the traitor who gave the codes to the criminals. The leader is a stone cold killer and is married to a physcho thrill seeker. During the film the two goodun's get outside in a shuttle, the wife comes after them and gets shot up by the transports auto defenses. She crashes into a bay where it just so happens the turncoat is working to fix a gantry problem. So now there are two goods and one bad. They work together to avoid the asteroid just in the nick of time. Then the engineer shoots the bad guy and there seems to be a standoff between the last two. As the film ends there is a news broadcast saying the mining colony has been bought by someone wishing to remain anonymous and is going to clean the dirty deeds that have been going on. The viewer is left to interpret that as the two survivors kept the $40 billion and are using it for good, kind of, maybe, almost.

a lack luster movie filled with the same old story we have been seeing since the dawn of B sci fi movies. a cop was set up and now is being punished by being shoved onto a monetary cargo ship that is about to be hijacked by "trained" (ha) thieves. well, you can guess what happens from there. sad thing is that they really spent some money on this movie, making the effects better then average for a B film. the directing is a little more then fair for the budget, and the acting is about as good as you can get on this type of movie. Oliver Gruner got away with not being dubbed over, but his english still has not improved, making it very hard understand what he is saying. and we have to see oliver dancing around to opera in his underwear... which is good for a laugh... and a scare. Apart from the effects and few action scenes, the movie is basically nothing. jabber, no dialog, and that comes from a bad plot with a script that suffers from weak writing. its ashame they spent so much money, and then did not bother to get a good script. another bad film for action/sci-fi junkies to rent on the weekends. so if you see it, rent it, for the effects if nothing else, which are fair as i said, but do not exspect to see a wonderful film. Rent aliens or die hard instead. And for gods sake, do not bother buying this thing. ~alex

This film is bearable but that's about it, similar to a good TV ep of "Space: Above and Beyond". It's a step up from the sci-fi gagger "Escape Velocity", which had even less action and more cliches. FF through all scenes of him with his girl friend, it's banal drivel, and that part isn't even tied up at the end. And forget the plot holes too. -Bob

Weak story, weak writing and poor acting. The only good thing I can say about this film is that it had mediocre special effects.