Leofwine_draca If you ever wondered why Hammer Films spent so many years churning out horror film after horror film, check out MOON ZERO TWO, a timely foray into science fiction by the British production company. Put simply, it's a dog of a film, by turns excruciatingly embarrassing and rather dull, so I'm glad Hammer stuck with the horror bracket for the most part.Publicity has it that MOON ZERO TWO was conceived as a western in outer space, but the later Sean Connery-starrer OUTLAND did that style of film-making in a much better and more convincing way. Because it's impossible to take a film like MOON ZERO TWO seriously. The nadir, for me, is the usual bar-room brawl which takes place in area with reduced gravity, so participants are flying through the air and the like. I think it was supposed to be funny, but I certainly wasn't laughing with it. And what's up with those excruciating cartoon credits, which seem to belong to a different film altogether? This movie also suffers from miscasting on a colossal scale, with half the actors feeling like they're in some kind of pantomime. Pretty Hungarian actress Catherine Schell is about the best of the bunch, although she's saddled with a boring character. She must have enjoyed the experience, because she went on to star in the similarly-themed SPACE: 1999 in the 1970s. James Olson (CRESCENDO) has to be one of the stodgiest and unlikeable leads ever seen in a Hammer film, and don't get me started on Warren Mitchell's caricature antagonist. As for Bernard Bresslaw and his attempts to be menacing as a henchman, the less said, the better. I occupied myself for the most part in watching out for Michael Ripper, Adrienne Corri, and Sam Kydd in support.If you're a model maker or a fan of model work, you'll no doubt enjoy this production because the special effects are mainly of the model variety. As an action thriller it really fails though, as many of the action sequences take place outside the base and featuring characters wandering around in their space suits in ultra slow motion. Hardly what I would term exciting viewing, MOON ZERO TWO is a misstep from a usually reliable studio.

Lee Eisenberg The movie billed as the first space western sets out to entertain, and it succeeds. "Moon Zero Two" is set in 2021 on the moon, where a colony (presumably built by Newt Gingrich?) has attracted a number of people. A former astronaut gets more than he bargained for when he takes on a mission to bring down a sapphire asteroid.The movie very much has the look of one of those 1960s-1970s sci-fi flicks, including some go-go dancers. It's fitting that the movie got released not long after the moon landing, and a lot of the movie appears to have taken inspiration from "2001: A Space Odyssey". The cast includes James Olson (Father in "Ragtime") and Adrienne Corri (Mrs. Alexander in "A Clockwork Orange"). Warren Mitchell played bigot Alf Garnett on "Till Death Us Do Part", on which "All in the Family" was based.You gotta love Hammer movies.

anikom15 After watching this movie, I realized I don't remember a thing about it. All I remember is the soundtrack, and boy is it a soundtrack.This movie takes everything bad about every sci-fi and mashes it together with overacting and cheap special effects. The result is something almost close to a masterpiece in B-movie cinema, but not exactly. For one, the Jazz steals the show, for two, the style of the movie was obviously inspired by 2001: A Space Odyssey but is also obviously inspired from the 60s, and finally, it's just bizarre. This movie's got exotic dance scenes, a low-gravity bar fight, a complicated plot that you don't care about, space shootouts, bowler hat villain, tough guy hero, useless heroine, and bad haircuts. What else can I say? Oh yeah, scientific background is essentially non-existent, but who cares? This is a great movie to watch if you want to teach yourself what NOT to do in a sci-fi story; it's also featured on a great episode on Mystery Science Theater 3000. In my opinion, that's the better choice.I have no idea what the title means....

verbusen I rate this film a 3 (its average here) but as a 10 as a Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode (it was in season 2 I think, the version I just watched), so I'm averaging it around a 6. I noticed a lot of British reviewers here who mostly love this flick. I suppose if I watched this movie in 1969 when I was 6 I would have thought it was cool. Problem is I didn't so it doesn't get any sentimental points from me. This flick is a big rip off of 2001 and UFO, and I suspect they intended to steal from both. It starts off with an extra long cartoon intro with some extra loud jazz bond type intro, it is funny to a point than really irritating, its sooo long. All the reviewers who love this flick seem to think its realistic, ummm I don't think so. I love the realistic part where they find the dead astronaut and its a skeleton, yeah that was soo realistic, did the space fly's get to his dead body? They could have used some sexy green moon women in this trash flick, because if they were trying to be realistic it was a waste of some good camp. The MST3K writers did a fantastic job skewering this flick and it was one of the better episodes I've seen, the time Joel uses the anti gravity to mimic a scene in the movie is dead on hilarious! See it as a MST3K episode and you'll be entertained. You have been warned.