Cold Fusion

I saw Cold Fusion with nothing else better to do, and although the concept did intrigue me I was expecting worse than I got. Cold Fusion is not what I call a good movie, however I have seen much worse than this. The photography while nothing particularly special is better than average, likewise the acting was decent particularly from Adrian Paul and William Hope. On the other hand, the effects have a cheap and rushed look to them and some of the lighting is on the dull side. The dialogue is corny, the story is dully paced, overloaded and silly, the sets and interiors would look more at home in the 60s, the action sequences are contrived in choreography and overly earnest in execution and the characters especially the villains are written in a flat and stereotypical manner. All in all, not very good but not terrible. 4/10 Bethany Cox

A flying saucer once crashed in the Soviet Union; a few decades later, villains want to exploit the bits and pieces of alien technology to create weapons and make the occasional terrorist attack when they're bored on a Tuesday afternoon. Enter Xena (Sarah Brown) and Lara Croft (Michelle Lee), or at least that's what they look like, kick the s**t out of the baddies and blow up half of the Ukrainian location. Adrian Paul meanwhile is busy clarifying who is behind the conspiracy.

Ummm, yeah, right: it's silly, no denying, but it has its amusing moments. An action flick I'd consider watching again some time. It gives aliens another good reason to avoid this barbarian planet, though. Earthlings find advanced technology, and all they can think of is super-weapons? Give me something new. Voted 5/10, still.