Articles in Sci-Fi Movie Reviews
Drive: Director’s Cut (1997) Movie Review
Steve Wang’s “Drive” is an exceptionally entertaining action film, but it’s a miserable everything else. The movie, about a Hong Kong supersoldier who escapes to America with an army of inept bad guys at his tail, would make a fine Jet Li movie, and in fact you get the feeling that lead Mark Dacascos has [...]
April 23rd, 2003 | Nix | 0 comments | Read MoreDreamscape (1984) Movie Review
“Dreamscape” was made in 1984, and you have to take that date into consideration to fully understand its paranoia, which led to the movie’s main storyline: a shadowy government agency, led by the evil Christopher Plummer, plans to assassinate the President (Eddie Albert) using dreams. And why does Plummer want to kill the President? Because [...]
April 21st, 2003 | Nix | 0 comments | Read MoreDreamcatcher (2003) Movie Review
Besides being a giant mess and a terrible bore of a movie, “Dreamcatcher” has the same problem as “Signs” — it’s a science fiction movie about aliens made by people who aren’t interested in the topic. If the screenplay by William Goldman (”The Princess Bride”) and Lawrence Kasdan (”Body Heat”) doesn’t convince you that these [...]
April 16th, 2003 | Nix | 0 comments | Read MorePredator (1987) Movie Review
Back when simple was appreciated, and brawn ruled over brains, John McTiernan’s “Predator” was king. I am talking, of course, about the ’80s, when patriotism wasn’t a 4-letter word and Hollywood was still trying to please the moviegoing public first instead of showing off their ideologically driven “movies with messages.” Back then it was all [...]
March 24th, 2003 | Nix | 0 comments | Read MorePredator 2 (1990) Movie Review
Despite offering up more violence, blood, killings, and a lot more gore, 1990’s “Predator 2″ somehow doesn’t come close to approaching the coolness that the original “Predator” radiated from every pore of its over-the-top skin. Maybe it’s because lead Danny Glover doesn’t look up to the task, or maybe it’s because the characters, despite being [...]
March 24th, 2003 | Nix | 1 comment | Read MoreReturner (2002) Movie Review
Sometimes there’s just no real reason for a movie to be in the first place. Take the South Korean movie “Resurrection of the Little Match Girl”, and now take the Japanese movie “Returner”. Both films are clearly inspired by “The Matrix”, and one can spot the “inspiration” in the action sequences and special effects. Although [...]
March 18th, 2003 | Nix | 0 comments | Read MoreChildren of Dune (2003) Mini-Series TV Review
Let’s get it out of the way first: I have never read Frank Herbert’s “Dune” books. Not a single one. This was the case when I went into “Dune”, the original mini-series produced by the Sci-Fi Channel a few years back, and it’s the case now. The mini-series collects two of Herbert’s books, “Dune Messiah” [...]
March 12th, 2003 | Nix | 0 comments | Read MoreEvent Horizon (1997) Movie Review
“Event Horizon” stars Sam Neill (“Jurassic Park 3″) as Dr. Weir, a troubled scientist who, along with the salvage crew of Captain Miller (Laurence Fishburne), are sent to salvage an experimental ship called the Event Horizon that had gone missing years earlier. As the ship’s designer, Weir’s presence is crucial to the recovery of the [...]
March 12th, 2003 | Nix | 0 comments | Read MoreScreamers (1995) Movie Review
“Robocop’s” Peter Weller headlines “Screamers” as Hendricksson, the burnt out commanding officer of a futuristic military faction called the Alliance. Hendricksson and his men have been fighting a war against the rival N.E.B. soldiers on an isolated mining planet for the last 10 years. During the war, the Alliance had built fast-moving androids with buzz [...]
March 9th, 2003 | Nix | 0 comments | Read MoreHeavy Metal 2000 (2000) Movie Review
The only reason that could possibly explain the making of “Heavy Metal 2000″ is the cult following for the 1981 original. Unlike its predecessor, “Heavy Metal 2000: F.A.K.K. 2″ uses traditional cell animation in combination with CGI, as is the trend nowadays. Similar methods of animation can be found in Japanimation films “Blood” and numerous [...]
March 3rd, 2003 | Nix | 0 comments | Read MoreCode Hunter aka Stormwatch (2002) Movie Review
At the risk of coming across like some Hollywood elitist, let me just say that low-budget filmmakers should be banned from ever making a movie about virtual reality ever again. I say this after having seen “Code Hunter”, a film that is at least 6 years too late to get in on all the “VR [...]
February 18th, 2003 | Nix | 0 comments | Read MoreTerminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) Movie Review
It really is not possible to over exaggerate the importance of a movie like “Terminator 2″ to action filmmaking, and just filmmaking in general. Besides pioneering cinematic morphing technology (the technique that mimics one character “changing” flawlessly into another before our eyes), “T2″ remains the film to see for sheer excitement, tension, and suspense 12 [...]
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look katie don't have the breast for it and tara reid don't either and she has to be tall like ...
unbelievable.
how and why the fuck havent they tried to come even close to making the characters look like they in ...
I could of put Morgan Freeman as Master Rochie. hahahahaha jk
You know who i think could of been a ...
It does come out in November - the 21st. :) 
Did Akira Toriyama even have a say in any of this? Or does he just not care and is trying ...
