ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.

Lumsdal Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Wizard-8 It was around this period that the Hammer film studio started to try other film genres, probably because audiences were declining for their period horror movies. "Moon Zero Two" was radically different than anything Hammer had done before, and it would be nice to report it was a solid effort, but for the most part it's not. The main reason why it fails is the script. It has the one-two punch of not only taking forever to get going, but once it gets going it doesn't progress at an acceptable speed. The movie is dull and slow moving. It's not a total waste of time - the idea of making a western in a future space environment was a new idea at the time, and occasionally this radical update of an old genre shows something a little interesting. And the props, sets, and special effects are pretty good by 1969 standards. All the same, most viewers will probably fall asleep before the end. If you want to see a movie that's more or less a western out in space, you'd be much better off watching the Sean Connery movie "Outland". It's not a great movie, but it's a heck of a lot better than "Moon Zero Two".

morrison-dylan-fan Having kindly been given a DVD of John Boorman's Excalibur by a friend,I was pleasantly surprised to discover a bonus DVD in the box of a movie called Moon Zero Two.Searching online for details about the title,I was thrilled to learn that this film is Hammer studio's only attempt at a "Space Western",which led to me getting hold of my space boots and Cowboy hat to take a trip to Hammer's Western moon.The plot:Ever since having made his mark on history by being the first man to ever land on Mars,William H. Kemp has seen his life slowly slide,going from fame and fortune to hanging around a salon bar on the moon having one too many drinks. With feeling largely disgusted by how the commercial company (Space Corruption) want to leave space exploration behind to instead focus on commercial travel.Kemp decides to take the job of being an intergalactic scrap metal collector.Returning to the moon salon after doing his recent round of picking up scrap parts from rusted space ships and starlight's,Kemp runs into a newly arrived billionaire,who gives him the tantalising offer of helping him to reach an asteroid entirely made of sapphire. View on the film:Opaning the movie with a charming animated credits scene and an extremely catchy title track sung by Julie Driscoll,director Roy "A Night To Remember" Ward Baker does fairly well at keeping the Western side of the film to always be a noticeable feature,from funny shoot outs (featuring a terrific Bernard Bresslaw) to everyone getting drunk in the moon's salon on cheap (drinkable!) rocket fuel whist being surrounded by dancing girls.Along with the western elements,Baker also makes the Sci- Fi setting wonderfully faulty,by focusing on how often the machines of the future constantly break down and also shows the characters dislike for some of the main technological changes (due to whiskey being $35 a shot,all of the crew put up with drinking a rocket fuel alternative.) Whilst Baker does very good at keep the Sci-Fi and Western elements constantly changing places,the screenplay/story (by Michael Carreras,Gavin Lyall,Frank Hardman and Martin Davison) disappointingly never reaches the level of excitement that it promises,with Kemp's come down from his past fame and initial excitement on going to the asteroid,weirdly feeling rather ordinary,and lacking most of the thrills that could have sent this shining movie off into a bright (sun) moonset.

macabro357 This is one of the few Hammer films that (to my knowledge) never made it on to VHS. Now with Anchor Bay releasing most of the Hammer Collection on to DVD, I'd like to see them release this one as well. I saw this in 1970 when I was a little kid, and one of the most hilarious things I remember about it was seeing the rock band from the time period when the movie was in production, playing as aged old men rock stars in the future. It kinda reminds me of the old rock stars from the 60s and 70s playing the same thing today, who haven't changed at all except their age.I'm not gonna rate it at this time because I haven't seen it in so long, but I'll be looking forward to it if and when it comes out. Just don't take it seriously like some of the other reviews below. It's only escapist fare.And never mind the MST2K crap. The film isn't that bad to deserve that kind of treatment.

ubercommando First saw it when I was 12 and it has a place in my heart still after all these years; unlike a lot of other movies I enjoyed as a kid but can't stand today like "Battle of the Bulge" and "Raiders of the Lost Ark".Anyway, back to the movie. Today, it's the kitsch value that I really like, I mean, there's something incredibly cute and sexy about 60's women in futuristic garb. There is a conflict in the movie about the tone; is it a sci-fi thriller with action and danger, or a tongue in cheek effort (with Moonopoly even)? The effects are good in some areas and really poor in others; but apart from 2001 you can say that about most sci fi films of that era. It shares something else with 2001 that other more famous sci-fi movies don't and that's no sound in a vacuum. Full credit to the film makers that they paid attention to their science. In fact, the movie script has some basis in real science about conditions on the moon and in space (groovy sequence of a spacesuit puncture causing the crushing of a hired goon). So we have no noise in a vacuum, but do they give us just silence? No, they fill the soundtrack with what can be only described as the kind of music known as Porno-Jazz. No matter, I actually like that kind of stuff. C'mon everyone "Moooooooonnnnnn Zero Twooooo, let's all go to the Moon nowwwwwwwwwwwww, Mooooooooonnnnnnnn Zero Twoooooooooo".