2049 - A Caminho do Inferno

I sat down to watch this movie with my girlfriend, who loves cheap sci fi films, expecting to fall asleep at some point. Just when I was losing interest, I began to realize that I was watching a loose remake of "Treasure of the Sierra Madre", the great Humphrey Bogart-Walter Huston movie from 1948, one of my favorites.

I think the scene where the old man began dancing a jig and laughing crazily after finding the "precious" ore tipped me off. Although it was set on an asteroid, the plot was basically the same. The character in the 1948 film who wanted to horn in on their partnership was changed to a woman (Joan Chen) in this movie.

Rent both films and see if I'm right. I rate "Precious Find" a 3 out of 10 by the way.

It is about what you would expect to find in a cheap DVD (or even VHS) bin at a general store. It was likely made to be just that. A bunch of well known genre names, all past their peak days, mixed with some whats-is-names to ballance things out. Cheap production, with some minimal directing, and an old story that was tampered with to make is seem origional.

I knew what to expect, I watched and I was entertained. What more do you expect from the cheap DVD bin? Starting with the story used for Treasure of The Sierra Madre.was not a bad idea. The gratuitous love interest for the main character was a bit weak, and it would have been less so if it had not followed to such a pedestrian conclusion. But, overal it was simply a low budget piece of unsurprising genre entertainment. Nothing to love or hate here, so a 5 of 10 rating.

Director Phillipe Mora is known, at least within the circle of serious movie audience, for his lack of talent so the low quality of this movie was no suprise to me. The movie was to say the least - naive. I personally am not a SF fan, but I can respect a properly made film in any genre. However, I find movies like these truely insulting. Forgive me if You're a Mora fan, but this, as I would like to call it, warning was ment for those who aren't and for those don't know anything about him. Rutger Hauer is a very tricky actor. Whenever I see his name in a credit block of a movie, I can't tell if it'll be a good one or the worst ever. So, if You like Rutger, better watch him in one of those good films where he's at his best and you can calmly skip this one.

well i know i have seen them all now! , can anyone tell me why the space station has a pick-up truck in it on a ranch and what the hell that alein worm was that u never here of again ? was it left over from another set or something???????? i dont know what to think all kinds of stuff like that , but!!! i am thinking ,is this film made to be serious? thats the question ,cause if it was made to be like not stupid then the whole movie is undoubtably a peice of junk its got all the 2 dollar speical affects , crappy everything i think they lost the space station half way through so they replaced it with a ranch i mean u got to take your hat off to the crew , talk about not caring about there jobs or the movie,,,,,BUT if it is like made to be a peice of junk funny crap thing like plan 9 thing then it is undoubtably genius i mean it would be so hard to make a movie so crap it BECOMES !!good so i give it about a 3/10 u have to see it to believe it ,just make sure u dont except much in the way of science fiction , SO if u want to see a movie about Ninja Card playing gold miners who ride around in pick-up trucks on space stations then this movie is for U!!

As a devoted fan of Rutger Hauer I've seen some crappy productions. This, a remake of a western in a sci-fi setting, tops them all. Can anybody tell me why asteroids have an atmosphere and why you would use a pick-ax when you go there by spaceship?