BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Palaest recommended

Seraherrera The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

Yash Wade Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

nuhc Watched this horrible piece of garbage movie as an MST3K episode, and if not for the MST3K treatment, this would have to be one of the worst low-budget sci fi flicks ever. But, this one is so bad that it's funny, especially if you look out for all the goofs. For example: the woman with the big hair gets killed by Kalgan and shows up in the next scene like nothing happened, the beginning of the movie has footage from Battlestar Galactica, the captain of the space ship has an obviously fake Santa beard, all the action takes place on board a space ship, yet they have no problems blowing stuff up or starting fires, at one point the hero is running down a hallway next to a brick wall even though he's on a space ship, a flamethrower appears to be a propane bottle painted silver, the buff hero knocks out some skinny dude and then puts on his uniform which he manages to fit, a bunch of people running around in a factory and falling over railings to their deaths, and everyone uses 8088 desktop computers. Then throw in some useless plot points about some alien women who like to do tai chi while running their hands over plasma balls direct from Spencer's Gifts, a cheesy 80's soundtrack (don't get me wrong, I grew up in the 80's and love the music), and a steroid-filled leading man and you get Space Mutiny.Watch the MST3K version, it makes for some pretty funny moments, especially when Captain Santa gets lucky.

doomchild-635-982234 I know that not many people like this movie, but I have to say that i love this films. Sure, it is not a good movie, but a movie does not have to be good, in order to be awesome, and this movie is just absolutely awesome. Now what makes this film so enjoyable is the man himself, Reb Brown, not many people know who this man is, but he is one of the coolest actors ever, and that is because he is the greatest over actors ever! I can safely say, that if Reb Brown was not in this film, I would not have enjoyed it, as much as i did. Everything about this movie is completely over the top, the story, the acting, everything, it is just absolutely pure entertainment, and not many movies have the entertainment value that this film has, films like the Godfather, or Goodfellas are considered some of the best films ever made, but neither of them, or films that are considered the best films ever made, are as entertaining as this film. If you are a person who loves these bad movies, the you should buy it, it is just awesome!

MartinHafer I now think I have found the funniest sci-fi movie ever made, though I am sure these folks would not appreciate this distinction, as it was NOT intended as a comedy! In fact, this film is far funnier than "Space Balls"!I knew the film was a crap-fest when I noticed at the beginning that the space scenes were lifted straight from the TV show "Battlestar Galactica"! Think about it....they lifted scenes from a second-rate show to make a third-rate movie! To anyone who saw the original show, it's obvious!The movie is about, of all things, a space mutiny. While I could talk about the whys and hows and all that, the bottom line is that the entire film is horribly written, horribly acted and the special effects are poo---and who really cares about the dopey plot--I know the film makers didn't! John Phillip Law plays the most over the top and dopey bad guy--and he's even less subtle than Ming the Merciless from "Flash Gordon"! The way he laughed like a maniac and snarled all the time made you wonder HOW he could organize a mutiny--nobody that obviously deranged could get anyone to follow them (except, perhaps people with a net). In fact, those who did follow him apparently were blind, as all their laser shots missed their targets again and again. In fact, in scene after scene, the good guy took on several dozen baddies and ALWAYS won because they simply couldn't hit anything! Now this is NOT to say the good guys were all that accurate either. In the funniest scenes in the movie, there were super-low speed chases using bumper cars and literally the guys were 10 feet apart and kept missing! The bottom line is that everything about this film screams "turkey" from start to finish. Everything is lousy and stupid...period. And, because it is so bad, you can't help but laugh, and laugh, and laugh! Some things to look and laugh at include the disco scene where ladies dance with hula hoops, the alien ladies who are all dressed like the women from "The 20 Minute Workout" who gyrate and the way Cameron Mitchell is dressed up like Santa! It's all a hoot--a bad movie that is so bad it makes you laugh.

Woodyanders The peace and serenity of the spaceship Southern Sun gets rudely disrupted by a nasty gang of mutineers led by the evil Flight Commander Elijah Kalgan (an outrageously hammy portrayal by a constantly scowling John Phillip Law). It's up to mighty macho man supreme Dave Ryder (beefy hunk Reb Brown, who displays all the charisma of a can of spoiled Spam) to stop Kalgan before it's too late. Poorly directed with jaw-dropping ineptitude by David Winters, further blessed with dreadful acting, rusty tin-eared dialogue (sample line: "Surrender or be blown into astro dust!"), copious special effects footage lifted from "Battlestar Galactica," badly staged action scenes (a protracted chase sequence involving a couple of souped-up futuristic golf carts is especially sidesplitting), laughable costumes, tacky opening titles, cheesy (markedly less than) special effects, crummy sets (the spaceship cargo bay looks just like a rundown old oil refinery -- and probably was exactly that!), and the insanely cool-rockin' ending credits theme song "The Edge of A Dream," this gloriously ghastly marvel of all-out celluloid awfulness is an uproariously atrocious riot from stinky start to fumbling finish. The uniformly abysmal performances from the Hall of Shame Faded (Semi) Name cast provides a lion's share of the unintentional hilarity: Brown projects all the appeal of a smelly plastic bag full of fresh cow excrement, Law cuts loose with the same irritating psycho cackle with appalling regularity, Cameron Mitchell sports a ridiculously fake-looking Santa Claus-style snowy white beard as the wise, gentle Commander Alex Jansen, martial arts movie star James Ryan terribly overacts as the hateful and traitorous cripple MacPhearson, and Graham Clarke sleepwalks through his part as the stolid Captain Scott Devers. Moreover, Cisse Cameron as the spunky Dr. Lea Jansen sure looks cute and steams up the screen with her remarkably sexy hula hoop disco dance. Plus a bunch of yummy psychic alien babes help our heroes out. An absolute cruddy hoot.