Timelock

Moviecut—Timelock

Gonna chalk this up to good actors (Ayre Gross, Maryam D'Abo, Jeffrey Meek, Nicholas Worth, Martin Kove, etc) blackmailed to be in a student film. Wow.

This is the type of movie that you rented on VHS from your local store back in the day, consumed with junk food and a few beers, and then perhaps evaluate your life choices after the night is done. The point being, this is not a movie to take at all seriously. It's a camp throwaway affair, poorly conceived and put together. If you start to think at all while watching this, you'll be struck by how tragic a state the careers of Martin Kove and Maryam d'Abo must have been at the time. It's a step just above amateur, as in the very next step. Only really worth a watch if you have a passing interest in bad movies.

I made it past the low budget "special" effects and poor acting and was still willing to give this a go, until... SPOILER ALERT... a guard decided to use his finger as the means to probe what was inside a suspicious prisoner's suspicious tooth. At that point I had to stop watching purely out of defense of my (remaining) brain cells. Maybe the movie got better after that, but I don't see any reason to hope so. Even a no-budget movie can be worth watching if it brings something else to the table, but with writing that bad, this one belongs in the trash.

Incredibly bad Future Prison movie in which sweaty leather-clad Vin Deisel wannabees run around a former mining asteroid turned penal institution shooting 20th century handguns at each other (as it was set in the 23rd Century, this is the equivalent of having James Bond run around with a muzzle loading flintlock) and generally being sweatily homo-erotically sadistic to everyone in sight. Pure crap. Not particularly enjoyable crap either. Zero imagination / WTF? points included the ship our villains planned to escape on needing a 3.5 floppy to get it to fly (I can't even start to think of an equivalent for today's transport - needing a quill and parchment to start the Space Shuttle?) and the side-kick baddie managing to smuggle not one, but _two_ katanas (with scabbards) into the ultimate maximum security prison in the universe. Mindless bilge.

Criminals going to a penal colony in space (somewhere) escape, unfreeze one of the prisoners and... well am not sure what follows. There is a lot of running around, shooting and mini explosions but it doesn't amount to thrills of any kind. A lot of it is just silly. Most of the characters are uninteresting. Jeff Speakman as the master criminal McMasters is dull, Maryam d'Abo as pilot Teegs is annoying, Nicholas Worth is wasted and Arye Gross as comic relief Riley is neither comic nor a relief. Even Ricco Ross, a fine thespian, couldn't make much of his role. Jeffrey Meek as the flamboyant Villum does add a bit of entertainment value. Am feeling generous giving the movie 4/10.

A real B-movie, badly directed and written and only enjoyable if you're a fan of lowest-common-denominator cinema. Arye Gross, of TV's ELLEN, is the nominal hero, a normal guy caught up in an outer space prison break in which a gang of bad guys have to be subdued. Former Bond girl Maryam d'Abo co-stars as a tough pilot alongside various cult faces including Nicholas Worth and Martin Kove. Jeff Speakman, a straight-to-video martial arts actor, is cast against type as the overacting villain of the piece. Not good at all, with no decent action or FX to recommend it either.

A science fiction movie set on a penal colony planet. There the similarity with Alien 3 ends. Most of the bad guys act like gay * stars, the ex bond Girl, Maryam d'Abo, naturally can't act. A slight saving Grace is Ayre Gross, a well known TV actor, who is the best thing in a bad movie.

I just saw this movie on DVD. It was very fun for a no budget Sci-Fi movie. I just loved Jeffrey Meek's performance - sleek with a touch of camp - great delivery and killer expressions. I will watch this one again.

Well, I went in to this film knowing full well it was no "Star wars" but this was extra cheesy. I love sci-fi movies and hoped this would at lest entertain me for a while. I was wrong. As for the sci-fi part, it was missing. First of all there was no time travail, time warping...nothing to do with time but wasting it. This was not even a B-movie. Saddly, the acting and FX were not so great ether. They stunk. It looks like they filmed it in an old wear house. I don't even remember if I made it to the end of this bomb. This had o be a tax right-off for someone. If you like bombs, or hate your self, then this for you, if not stay away...far away. Run if you have to.