Moontrap: Target Earth

It's been many years since I have seen a film of such low quality. Both Acting and special effects could have been created at a kindergarten by a bunch of 6 year old's but that would be an insult to your average 6 year old. I somehow have the impression that the budget was a little bit tight also. I feel sorry for the acting cast because if they get known for only this film then I feel that their career would go straight down the toilet. Shame cause some of them have potential.

This movie is vastly inferior to the original Moontrap. The story is a mish-mash of elements from better movies like Prometheus, and the typical we don't want the populous to know of this, it will ruin society. The special effects are sub par and compare to the worse the SyFy channel dishes out. Moontrap was not a A budget movie but is made good use of the stars and budget. This one had only 2 robots and neither looked like the Kaalium. One plus is the character development, you cared about what was going on with them. The ending was unsatisfying. Overall a movie that needed to look at the original for better inspiration and better writers and effects.

Daniel (Damon Dayoub) and his girlfriend Scout (Sarah Butler) are attempting to raise funds about a discovery of a large female head statue. Meanwhile, and apparently nearby, a pyramid is uncovered with writing estimated to be 14,000 years old. They are called in by a group (them) to decipher the meaning. Scout is able to decode them, by a means that seems to be more of channeling their meaning than an actual deciphering. Anyway, Richard Kontral (Charles Shaughnessy) is a bad guy and people die to keep the secret. The plot doesn't have any decent twist and oh ya, there is that moon thing at the end, a moon that has the same gravity as Earth something the special effects people ignored. There were a couple of bots, nothing overly impressive. The film has a New Age theme. Sarah Butler wears a revealing gown and has some blurred side view nudity. The film felt like it was written for the Saturday morning crowd, but then they added the risqué outfit and some awkwardly placed F-words, spoken by people who don't know how to swear. Sarah Butler was very unconvincing. Nice red outfit.

I watched this movie 3 days ago, from anticipatory beginning to completely baffled end. Can someone please remind me of the premise and/or the plot of this film, as I've have totally forgotten. I was so bored by the end, I don't even remember the robots that other reviewers talk about. Seriously! I do remember a scene or two, involving a gallery of blurred outlines of some people supposedly in charge of something, but that's about all I remember. Honest ......

Somewhere in this plodding, underdeveloped mish-mash of a movie there is a story worth doing. Sadly, it wasn't done correctly here. You will find yourself wondering why they didn't do "X" or "Y" all the way through it. That is, if you can stay with it long enough. This movie could have been done in half the length of time it took, and the result would have been far superior. Vast chunks of time are wasted on long, lingering shots of ...... nothing important. Or s-l-o-o-o-w pan shots that do nothing to advance the story. The SFX are mediocre, at best. The dialog goes from snappy to dull in the blink of an eye. With a few more bucks in the budget, and a director and cinematographer who actually cared, this could have been a half decent B flick. Save your precious dollars, and find another flick to watch.

I've seen a lot of bad movies, but this one is one of the worst. The 2 main actors need to be put on a blacklist so they can never infect another movie or tv show. The woman is an extra special kind of bad. The script writer(s) need to go back to high school and retake English Composition. The dialog is just awful and erratic. The special effects arent horrible but it doesnt really matter when everything else is trash. Hoping these folks stay out of the movie biz. Should be used by the CIA for torture.

This film had so much potential – and it squandered all of it. The editing was off, but my primary complaint is that the various characters never acted as if they were real people. Case in point, a main character loses what would have appeared to be the love of their life, yet shows virtually no emotion about it whatsoever, even to the point of seeming to completely forget about that person's existence shortly afterward. The plot is disjointed at best, and the entire film seems to be a series of set pieces strung together in a very haphazard fashion. As for the ending of the film? Well, it ended. It didn't make any sense, but neither did the rest of the movie.

Nothing at all happens until 55min into the film. The above comments are ditto here. Go watch the original. The 1989 original's effects are WAY superior to this 2017 sham. There is even a robot fight scene that looks just like Rockem Sockem Robots !! The producers should have just continued the story where the first one left off. Maybe have the government send an expedition to the moon to get ancient but superior technology to fight a Kallium outbreak back on Earth.

Nothing to do with the original Moontrap (1989) this one delivers nothing. It's extremely slow moving and there aren't any real effects used. Or when there are effects, like the spaceship it's done in a laughable way. Maybe the face replacing a cyborgs face is the only thing well done. And the cyborgs moving around are really slow and are lame. There are two covers circling around and one has the two cyborgs fighting which you will make you think, ahaa another transformer well forget it. One of the reasons I came across it is the fact that Sarah Butler is in it. First time I saw her acting was in the I Spit On Your Grave (2010) remake. She immediately became a scream queen in so many hearts of horror geeks. But here she also doesn't add a thing towards this flick. The director was clever enough by knowing that Sarah is used to show her body but here she goes all the way out of focus. Really? I ain't going to give it a 1 because for the only reason that they did an effort to make a sci-fy sadly it failed and the acting was okay. Gore 0/5 Nudity 1,5/5 Effects 1/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 0/5

The original movie was dark and of far higher quality. I am a fan of the original so i was really excited when i learned that a sequel was in the works. But as soon as info started coming in -even from preproduction phase- i realized that i was about to experience a huge disappointment. I was not wrong. Now i've watched this wreckage and boy they did an awful job. Yes i understand that it is a low-budged film but even that is no excuse for the god-awful script and laughable effects. I won't say anything about the script because really i'm too mature for that (It's like it was written by a toddler). I'll say this about the effects though: They used CGI. Modern times right? Thing is with CGI though it can be either mind-blowing or ridiculous. There is no middle ground. Good professional CGI can look amazing. Poor cheap CGI on the other hand is unwatchable. As the producers knew they had a very *very* limited budget in hand they should had opted for good- old fashioned effects, like in the original movie. I'd choose a real- metal robot even if moved by visible wire any day over a cartoonish animation that doesn't even blend with the background. So i don't accept the low-budget argument as an excuse for ruining potential. They should be ashamed for doing this to a classic sci-fi horror.