Having attached Walter Koenig and Bruce Campbell to the project would attract audiences to the movie. This was a good move, since 'Moontrap' has nothing else going for it. This was just plain bad!
Bad visuals. Bad production design. Bad lighting. Bad photography. Bad dialogue. Annoying score. Unconvincing acting - even from the lead actors. This was just a very bad script and badly executed by first-time director Robert Dyke.
Whoever did Walter Koenig's make-up made him look like a mannequin, or the result of too much plastic surgery. He looked fake with all that make-up, almost like a drag queen who hasn't washed off his make-up properly after a Follies show the previous night.
Regarding the premise, there is nothing exciting here. Much of the movie is made up by silly chit-chat from the lead actors, or even monologues!! The action sequences - if one could call them that - was so badly done, even the gunfire looked and sounded like they were using toy guns. The bad editing made it much worse.
And they had to insist on a romance interest as well! Seriously?? Was that absolutely necessary?? Koenig's character Jason Grant discovers an alien female (looking very human, off course) on the moon and is apparently about 14,000 years old. The film doesn't tell us anything about her and apart from trotting along, she does absolutely nothing in the film - apart from making love to Jason, off course, in one of the most unromantic and forced love scenes in sci-fi horror history. The rest of the time she was a bland character who contributed nothing to the film. And Bruce Campbell tried his best to give an 'Evil Dead' impression - but failed miserably!
'Moontrap' just got worse and worse as it plodded to the end. Hardly any mentionable climax. This was laughably bad!
Would I watch it again? Nope!!
Bad visuals. Bad production design. Bad lighting. Bad photography. Bad dialogue. Annoying score. Unconvincing acting - even from the lead actors. This was just a very bad script and badly executed by first-time director Robert Dyke.
Whoever did Walter Koenig's make-up made him look like a mannequin, or the result of too much plastic surgery. He looked fake with all that make-up, almost like a drag queen who hasn't washed off his make-up properly after a Follies show the previous night.
Regarding the premise, there is nothing exciting here. Much of the movie is made up by silly chit-chat from the lead actors, or even monologues!! The action sequences - if one could call them that - was so badly done, even the gunfire looked and sounded like they were using toy guns. The bad editing made it much worse.
And they had to insist on a romance interest as well! Seriously?? Was that absolutely necessary?? Koenig's character Jason Grant discovers an alien female (looking very human, off course) on the moon and is apparently about 14,000 years old. The film doesn't tell us anything about her and apart from trotting along, she does absolutely nothing in the film - apart from making love to Jason, off course, in one of the most unromantic and forced love scenes in sci-fi horror history. The rest of the time she was a bland character who contributed nothing to the film. And Bruce Campbell tried his best to give an 'Evil Dead' impression - but failed miserably!
'Moontrap' just got worse and worse as it plodded to the end. Hardly any mentionable climax. This was laughably bad!
Would I watch it again? Nope!!