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| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Harley Cokeliss |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 10 January, 1986 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Starz / Anchor Bay |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Action, Action / Adventure, Action Thriller, Adult Language, Adult Situations, Adventure, Brief Nudity, Car Racing, Color, Comedy, Crime, Crime Gone Awry, Crime Thriller, English, Feature, Feature Film Action Adventure, Feature Film-action/Adventure, Gritty, Lone Wolves, Movie |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| MPN: | DV11410D |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 013131141092 |
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Customer Reviews of Black Moon Rising
Black Moon Rising This is the classic John Carpenter action movie. It's one of his original film efforts circa 1986, it features a Tommy Lee Jones, as a thief under contract by the US District Attorney's office. He is charged with retrieving vital records kept at a company and things go sideways upon his escape. <
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>While he is retreating from the theft he is seen by a man from his past. He hides the records in a special prototype car called the Black Moon as he tries to evade his pursuers. And in traditional John Carpenter style the car he hides it in gets stolen by carjacking specialist Linda Hamilton. Jones follows her to a warehouse filled with stolen high priced autos which happens to be owned by suave criminal Robert Vaughn. <
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>If you are a Carpenter fan you'll find a pleasurable film experience in Black Moon Rising. The snappy dialog, the old 80's clothing and the really cool chases made even more spectacular by Carpenter's attention to detail make this a definite must see film.
Great movie, poor quality product
As with others here, I loved this movie from the first time I saw it. However, I suspected the DVD was a bootleg copy when it first began to play, and so I then popped in my VHS tape. Sure enough, the very first scene, which is only about 30 seconds long, is missing on the DVD. It's critical because the scene sets up WHY the rest of the movie is important... a telex message advising a government operative to use any freelance methods necessary to retrieve accounting files from a company guilty of [...].
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>Additionally, the sound quality of the DVD is quite bad on my copy, starting out extremely loud and then becoming too soft.
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>I too hope this movie is tidied up and then re-released. I wish I had waited...
Less than enjoyable high tech 80's car movie
Maybe it was because of Night Rider, James Bond or Back to the Future, but there seemed to a be a huge amount of 80's action movies involving high tech cars. Sadly, this one features a car that is only mildly cool, and a storyline so hackneyed you wonder if maybe John Carpenter should be doing more constructive things with his free time.
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>Tommy Lee Jones is Sam Quint, a government thief who is looking to land that one last job and retire. He steals a top secret cassette tape for the Feds and is pursued by a former colleage with a horrible mullet. Sam randomly comes across a high tech hydrogen powered experimental car at a gas station and hides the cassette within it. But wouldn't you know? The car is stolen by Terminator target Lind Hamilton, who works for Robert "I never play a good guy" Vaughn, a millionaire who seems to have probably the most elaborate car theft operation I've ever seen. In fact, its never explained as to how he got such a great fortune and why he is so fixated on the relatively backwater business of car theft.
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>What makes this movie dull is the lack of action and the fact that three unrelated storylines are woven into each other. You have Quint on the run from the evil mullet guy and looking to get the tape back to Hightower from Police Academy so he can retire. Then you have the three science geek inventors of the Black Moon(Its never referred to by this name, its simply 'the car') who need their car back in time for an Italian car show. Then you have Linda Hamilton, her horrible wigs, Robert Vaughn and this fancy shmancy car theft operation. Everything is just thrown together. Tommy Lee has his trademark charisma, but he doesn't seem to be as professional as a man in his field should be. He's not very discreet and makes his presence very conspicuous when trying to retrieve the tape. In one scene, he seriously gets the living crap beaten out of him! The sex scene he has with Linda Hamilton is also random. One minute, they're in a car together talking in a pretty unsuggestive way. The next scene, they're getting it on. The supporting characters are pretty worthless(Evil mullet man, annoying mute car mechanic guy, tall murderous henchman dude). And Robert Vaughn comes off as a lackluster and somewhat dirty old man villain. He likes to watch videos of Linda Hamilton by himself a lot.
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>This is one boring flick folks. Why the two stars? Its not that bad, but still pretty dull.