Precious Find (Phillipe Mora) - Rutger
Hauer and Joan Chen have teamed up before
to good effect in low-budget SF - chuck in Brion James, and you can't knock
the cast. The material, on the other hand..."asteroids" which possess Earth
atmosphere, normal gravity, and look a lot like Arizona? For it's SF merely
in name; swap Stetsons for the space-suits and this could easily be the
Californian gold-rush, since what you have here is an unofficial remake of
Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Chen (wearing very well, I must say)
tries to cash in on Hauer & James's mine, only to find there are worse
claim-jumpers than her around. It's almost as if Mora bought a job-lot of
special effects and worked out what to do with them later. He isn't helped
by a hero entirely lacking in personality, especially next to the three
previously mentioned actors, and he'd have been better concentrating on the
paranoia between the various factions, an idea briefly raised. Instead,
it's uninteresting to-ing and fro-ing - oh yeah, and Rutger becomes a
samurai at the end, for reasons that escaped me, and might have been
connected to him stumbling into a cactus during filming and having to have
his scenes completed digitally. My attention probably wasn't all it could
have been by that stage. D-
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