Moontrap: Target Earth

2017
2.8| 1h21m| en| More Info
Released: 07 February 2017 Released
Producted By: MT2 Productions
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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A long forgotten ancient spacecraft discovered on Earth. Investigations carried out by Scout transport her to the moon whereupon she meets the impressive machines preserving the wisdom of that long lost civilization.

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Thomas Clement (Mr. OpEd) Just kidding. I didn't stay with it long enough to fall asleep.Before making a movie, please watch a whole bunch of great movies and ask yourself, "Can I make one remotely as good? Do I understand framing, editing, pacing, tension?" If the makers of MTE had asked these (the answer was NO!), it would have saved everyone a lot of time.
dob-2 This was seriously one of the two worst movies I've seen in my life. Worse than Surf Nazis Must Die, worse than Ilsa: She-Wolf of the SS, worse than Bloodsucking Freaks, worse than The Piano. The only movie I've seen that was about this bad was Stuff Stephanie in the Incinerator. It starts sort of OK, except the dialogue is ham-handed and painful, and the main characters seem to live in a warehouse full of radiators. There's a definite furniture shortage in the whole movie. They intuit an entire divinely-inspired love poem from eight heiroglyphics carved into a sheet of drywall. Bizarre illuminati who meet people from the balcony of a ballroom (also with no furniture) are unimpressed. And that's the end of the part of the movie that even halfway makes sense. The rest is just so weird, and painful weird, not kooky fun weird. The robot duel, the mystery god prison, the weird hitwoman, the unexplained sidekick in the party hat, the two-second knife sharpening, the plucky waitress in the contaminated restaurant, the requirement to strip naked that comes out of nowhere and is just accepted, the murder followed by it's a dream followed by no wait it was a murder, the race of paleolunar humans whose defining characteristic is sideboob, and all of the shit that went down on the moon - none of it makes any sense.I was left with a profound sense of sorrow and self-loathing. This was a terrible movie.
Randal As of this moment, Moontrap is ranking 73-up to 15-down from YouTube viewers. While not a great or very good movie, it is way better than a cargo ship of bad movies one can watch. These people reviewing at IMDB must've been expecting a blockbuster and got knocked over by the less than star-power big-budget directing product. But it's a perfectly fine clearly presented outcome. And the acting is okay too. Plus the added benefit of a plot that has not already been done to death.The soundtrack is quite professional, neither hokey or overdone. The lead actress carries her role. And the bad guy gets the job done as well.One issue that does often fail for me is when supporting actors are given lead roles in certain lower-budget films. There seems to be a disappointment in realizing they are unable to carry a scene. Strangely though, the same exact performance would probably be just fine from a different face, an unknown actor. Maybe that's because we've seen the supporting actors next to bigger talent and get reminded of that powerful screen presence because of seeing only the supporter, not the larger figure he has been in scenes with during other movies. I would advise producers for that reason to not put supporting actors in lead roles. It's just about money anyway, playing on the name for box office. That gamble might fail due to the psychological effect just mentioned.Okay, so remove expectations coming in. You get a perfectly worthy background movie for letting play while dusting or looking at cameras on eBay. And plenty of scenes are worth glancing over to see what is accompanying the sound.Anyway, I have no reviewing skill but wanted to jump in to correct what looks to me like an injustice done to a nice little movie done fairly well by a cast and crew of people who no doubt put their heart into the project.
RoboRabbit89 Let me get right to it, this film is really low budget. But honestly I still liked it, I have yet to see the first film. I consider this one a guilty pleasure.I mean, it wasn't going to be better than the first film, most sequels aren't as good as the their predecessors but this has potential. What I mean by that is, this sort of sets up for more. ( At least it felt that way.)I honestly would like to see more stories to this little universe, I wouldn't mind If Sarah Butler's character came back in future sequels. For me, Sarah Butler made this film watchable, and to be honest I was only seeing it for her. I mean, I know it's bad but I kinda liked it, Sarah made this film fun, at least for me. I know it's corny but I'm OK with that. My only quip with this sequel is it didn't have enough action scenes, not a whole lot, but at least a little more than it did.Overall, I liked it, I give it a 4/10. It's not a great sequel by any means, but it was kinda fun for what it is. Sarah Butler was good in it, and I hope to see more sequels to this soon. Maybe the next film can be an invasion of earth?