Short Review: This film is a race between stupid and perverted.


Go get drunk on cheap whiskey, call everyone you know and swear relentlessly at them, strip off all of your clothes, run downtown rubbing gravel in your hair whiles crying and screaming “I can’t love! I am lost in a world of loneliness!”

The next day you’ll feel less debased than after watching this film.

This film is about a group of money hungry actors-er-spaceship crew members who travel to a black hole in search of a missing ship. Here's a clue to the writers - ITS A BLACK HOLE! I THINK I KNOW WHERE THE SHIP MIGHT BE HIDING!

Once the space losers get to their objective, they spend the rest of the film aggressively avoiding anything that could be mistaken as a logical progression of narrative.

I assume that in the production meetings it was tossed around that the space dorks would find something creepy in the black hole. It's a vacuum so, of course, there's creepy stuff - at least that's what the hard science tells us.

Since this is a movie for morons, the space clods find hell or evil spirits or something like that - it doesn't matter. Let's just agree that our intrepid space slack jaws trip across a vague evil entity that plays on the space idiot’s memories and imaginations*. Unfortunately for us these space weenies ain’t very clever and the “ghosts” and whatnot are more pathetic than petrifying.

Outside of the issue that nothing in this film makes any sense, we still have the stagnant dialog, bored actors and tissue thin characters to relish. Given that the average episode of Thomas The Train has deeper meaning than this embarrassment, it shouldn't be too surprising to find that the man who directed this babbling nonsense went on to give the world the greatest film ever made: Death Race.

If you’re an independent director, producer, actor or screenwriter and you can’t break into the business, stay away from this movie. Not being able to get produced and then seeing this magnificent turd on the rental shelf is like being pantsed by the slow kid in gym class.

Spray oven cleaner in your face, drink shampoo, vote for the democrat, do anything but see this film.


Content Warning: There's plenty of violence, oh, and not just your run-of-the-mill eviscerations and bludgeons, these guys are "edgy"; so we get served up plenty of the good ol' fashioned sexual violence as well. Good job keeping things classy!



* - this may be the only reference to the word "imagination" and this film ever put to paper.


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John Singleton is not a delicate director and his strongest film is hardly subtle. Yes, the movie is overbearing in places and quite manipulative but on the flip side this is a cultural landmark. It captured a moment in time and spoke to a segment of society that often had been ignored. Singleton gives a memorable look at young African Americans in Los Angles and lays out their conflicts and dreams with obvious care and sympathy. Morris Chestnut and Lawrence Fishburne provide good performance based on Singleton’s sometimes overwrought dialog. It is with this film that Fishburne captured the essence of his wise mentor character that he has been taking to bank ever since.

There are cautions for violence, language and nudity. If these elements are of concern to you, this is a film you will want to skip.


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