Space Truckers (1996)

Some things I liked some I did not.

Gripping story with well-crafted characters

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Like Stuart Gordon's other venture into science fiction territory, the underrated and ill-fated ROBOT JOX, this is a nifty little film that was plagued by production difficulties and failed to find a theatrical distributor, which is a shame because its quite an enjoyable viewing experience. Everyone in the cast has fun in this , with Dennis Hopper delivering some unexpected and funny bits of dialog, Debi Mazar and Stephen Dorff providing reliable 2nd banana support and Charles Dance having the time of his life with his horny half-metal madman. This Excellent DVD offers a chance to see this little sleeper in a great looking print with a fascinating and funny commentary by the Director. This film delivers exactly what its titles proclaims.

This is one of those hybrid movies, grafting together a sci-fi space movie and a blue-collar trucker movie. Actually, it's not all that bad a concept but that's all it is -- a concept in search of a plot. The better-than-expected cast helps even though most of them appear to be slumming it.Stephen Dorff spends the central part of the movie stripped down and squeezed into a pair of tight black undershorts while he's bound in chains with his arms stretched above his head. These scenes should please those fraternity house guys who really, really enjoyed being Pledgemaster during Hell Week. And isn't it heartening that Mr. Dorff hasn't been talked into shaving his chest?

K, one day my father picked up a movie with a 'neat' cover. Got home with my mom and we were like yay lets watch this new movie we never saw before! .. Ok so it started ... interesting start, cool robots and disgusting gore (eek) on a strange planet (actually it was Pluto wasn't it?)... Blablabla I could tell the whole story but I rather not point, WTF NEVER EVER pick up a movie with a lame ass name, and seriously don't EVER I mean EVER judge a book by its cover (err tape..) it looked like an interesting movie HOWEVER it was a slap to the face for sci-fi movies, its DISGUSTING. I mean it was so bad I just started laughing (I swear it tryed to be serious) I CANT DESCRIBE THE STUPIDITY! It killed more then a million brain cells of mine I can't even write a descent critique. ITS THAT BAD! Argh and I wana prepare you for something "strange' *COUGH COUGH* mechanical p3n1$ *COUGH COUGH* Sorry just had to say it, its so funny, think of it as a commedy or a parody of sorts for sci-fi movies. Its classic batman laughs but in a new packaging. What the hell was this director thinking?

When I first heard of this film directed and partially written by Stuart Gordon. I thought the idea of Gordon creating a space adventure was very interesting. I thought, I know Gordon's films don't have $60 million budgets, so I figured most of people who disliked it probably aren't used to lower-calibered sci-fi. Which is extremely hard to do without looking foolish. I must give a lot of credit, Gordon did a very impressive job with the film overall.It takes the absurd nature of The Fi5th Element and the action of Judge Dredd into one, with a dash of Super Mario Brothers and Predator. The film is geared more towards a younger audience, with an apparent lighter tone. It has a PG-13 rating with little gore but I forgot about that. Several surprising great actors pop up in the film, Vernon Wells dressed in full Mad Max 2 outlaw mode. Charles Dance plays a (very) bio-mechanical trench-coated villian who looks as if he stepped out of the PC game Return To Wolfenstein. The main actors (Hopper, Dorff, and Mazar) do a convincing job in light of hammy material.The special effects that are present are done impressively with a keen-eye for detail. The production design is very extensive with a lot of little touches that push the film along. The direction of Gordon is truly dead-on, he offend used the film's full 2:35.1 scope to devastatingly creative effect. Some have bad mouthed the anti-gravity scenes as being horrid but no, this provided some of the most wild camera angles and it was interesting to think of how are did it without the crutch of CGI.They just didn't have $20,000 to burn on a interior spacecraft wall 20 feet behind the camera! They had to make with what they had and everything was used in a 'form follows function manner' The original musical score has a nice 'heavy handedness' to it. The action scenes are loud, tense and the Bio-Mechanical Warriors are the best fast moving 'person-in-suit' monsters in quite sometime. I recommend this film as the perfect time waster.