Solid Bruce, Solid Action, Solid SciFi

Rating: 10/10 (24 September 2002)

This is pure scifi. Nowadays all scifi's are either "soap-operas in space" (e.g. Star Trek-TNG, Andromeda, Earth Final Conflict, etc.)or "horror" movies (e.g. John Carpenter's "The Thing," and the "Alien Bunch"). This one (like "Lost in Space") had no message the director felt needed to be shoved down your apparently unenlightened throat. It was a movie that entertained from start to finish.
Bruce is wonderful to watch even if he is only standing up against a wall and delivering a single line: "That's a negatory, I am a meat-popsicle." (Proof: this line has been quoted to, and by, me many times.) Bruce is great. If you are a scifi fan you should really like this one, and Bruce makes it better than ever.
Chris Tucker is great as "Ruby Rhod." Watching his performance makes you realize how hard he must have worked to totally dedicate himself to playing this totally off the wall character. Kudos to Chris for a super job well-done. What I realized about his role was that I didn't keep thinking "When is Bruce going to show up?" That's a major accomplishment since it is very hard to appear interesting up against a star like Bruce Willis. So the movie had a triple punch of great acting.
Triple because I would be remiss if I didn't mention that "Zorg" was *solidly* played by Leonard Gary Oldman. I was entranced by his stalwart singular focus mercenary/business man/genius. Just as interesting a character so as not to steal the show from anyone else nor make you long for another appearance from the others.
This points to the great writing and directing - both allowed the characters to breath and develop without suffocating any other stars' roles. The production was very cool... I'm liking this movie even more now the more I describe it! :)
Great scifi. Go see it.

Zafoid