Stranded

If you can survive the first 20 minutes you better check for a pulse. This turkey was released at my video parlor under "Black Horizon", I spent $2 on the rental... I am kicking myself now. The movie was so bad I shut it off and I am tempted to run it through a microwave to protect others. It has bad acting, the space station scenes are shot in a gravity environment (might as well be on Earth). The characters are so paper thin you could give a rip if they die. Dialog... what dialog. Action... no action. Space aliens... Ice T? Watch out for this movie don't rent it, don't watch it, don't even look at it on the shelf. You might get a good nights sleep if like sleeping in front of your TV.

I read an article recently about damage done to the Hubble telescope by space debris. Perhaps it was a DVD of this bobbins? It tells us the dreary, rehashed, story of a crew who are stranded aboard a damaged space station. An hastily convened rescue team from planet Earth is soon being assembled - but are those pesky Russians really working from the game plan? The acting is pretty diabolical, the pace likewise - and what dialogue there is, well that's the usual gung-ho sort of stuff you might expect but hope not to get. Indeed, there is very little here to cause you to raise your eyes to the screen from whatever else you might choose to do whilst watching it. The effects are adequate, and there is usually something blowing up or spinning out of control - but for the most part it's just a really poorly devised and executed sci-fi adventure that isn't remotely exciting.

Poorly acted, poorly written and poorly directed. Special effects are cheap. Best performance is by Yvette Napir, but that's not saying much. Story is a confusing mess about corporate greed leading to sabotage of a space station and an attempt to rescue those stranded aboard.

There is little suspense and even less action. There's one car chase that's not bad, but the rest of the movie is simply a waste of everyone's time.

What a clunker!

It MUST have been made for TV or Cable.

Look: forget the screenplay - forget the bunch of forgettable actors. Excuse me? Continuity? The NSA/NIA/whatever or whoever he is (an agent) takes-off in an F16 - is shown in an F18 chucking his guts up and, later, the aircraft shown taxiing is an F4 Phantom! Oooh, wish that I could be so cavalier.

Apart from the male actors(!?) The women are WASPS: blue-eyed and long-legged and, eventually, get to cry about the heroes who save them. Even when a solid weld could save most of the cosmo- astro-nauts, the blond drops the welding tool. Duh!

As an SF movie one out of ten. As a movie per se: 1/2 (that's a half point). They should have ditched the space station and headed for Mars.

Major raspberries.

I rented this movie (first mistake) because Ice-T was in the credits (2nd mistake) and I like his work on law&order svu. he must have lost a bet or something to wind up in this useless tripe. stock footage of an F18 hornet taking off. stock footage of a space shuttle taking off. stock footage of the Johnson Space Centre. and the final straw, walking about on a space station in full gravity (3rd mistake)

they changed the title from 'stranded' to 'black horizon' (4th mistake) just to fool people. I really need to check the IMDb comments before wasting my money on this kind of juvenile pap. am I ever glad my DVD has a fast forward because I cut the playing time from 90 minutes to under 30.

0/10