Supernova | | Cast : | James Spader, Peter Facinelli, Robin Tunney | | Director : | Walter Hill, Jack Sholder, Francis Ford Coppola | | Studio : | Mgm/Ua Studios | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | January 14, 2000 | | DVD Released Date : | August 14, 2001 | | Language : | Unknown (Dubbed), English (Dubbed), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed), English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | May 13, 2005 | | Summary | Average story and acting, spooky to be in space! | Content
 | This film has average acting and storyline. The very cliche' of being trapped on a ship with a rogue criminal has been beat to death over the years, but we still find this film fun in that it shows how deep into space you can get. Gives you a feeling of cabin fever and vertigo. If you like Sci-Fi I would suggest to rent Mission to Mars or Red Planet before you go with this film.
In the early years of the 22nd century, a medical rescue team is traveling the netherworlds of deep space, waiting to answer emergency calls aboard what amounts to an interstellar ambulance. Captain Marley (Robert Forster), pilot Vanzant (James Spader), medical officer Evers (Angela Bassett), medical technician Penalosa (Lou Diamond Phillips), paramedic Lund (Robin Tunney), and computer technician Sotomejor (Wilson Cruz) pick up a distress signal from a group of workers involved in a mining operation on a comet. But as they move in for a rescue, they discover that this isn't the mission of mercy they were expecting.
They pick up Larson (Peter Facinelli), a mysterious and menacing man with a strange alien artifact, who draws the ship into the orbit of a huge star that is due to explode into a supernova at any time!
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| Rating | | | Date | February 10, 2005 | | Summary | Not As Bad As They Say | Content
| I was expecting to see a terrible movie, like Battlefield Earth terrible. But this film was actually well-done. The story was suspenseful and the acting was great. Too bad Robert Forester's role isn't as big as it could have been. First he was in Black Hole, then he's in Supernova. I wonder what solar-related sci-fi film he'll be in next? :)
This film is worth checking out. Even after all the negative hype, it's 1 1/2 hrs well-spent. |
| Rating | | | Date | December 30, 2004 | | Summary | Really awful picture | Content
| Done in the Dean Devllin/Roland Emerich style of little script, tons of cgi effects, and really bad acting. Movie looks like it was edited very poorly, both the PG and R rated versions make no difference. It's sill a poor movie. |
| Rating | | | Date | September 26, 2004 | | Summary | NOT SO SUPER NOVA | Content
| Riddled with production difficulties and the bailing out of noted director Walter Hill, SUPERNOVA ends up a confusing, muddled and ultimately disappointing film. The biggest problem for me is that I never truly understood just what was in the alien artifact, and also the dramatic change in appearance of Karl Larson after he is shot. There is an unusual amount of meaningless sex and nudity scenes, almost as if they were used purely for padding and lustful viewers.
Peter Facinelli, looking and sounding amazingly like Tom Cruise, commands his scenes with a suave menace. James Spader is too inanimate to be likeable; Angela Bassett is too cold to be sympathized with. Robin Tunney and Lou Diamond Phillips are likewise annoyingly cloy. The movie has some tense moments, but it is so miswritten and directed, it only gets three stars for the fact that It held my interest longer than I thought it would. |
| Rating | | | Date | January 03, 2004 | | Summary | Almost unwatchable sci-fi turkey | Content
| This blatently derivative (hat tip to Ridley Scott's Alien, with a hint of Stanley Donen's Saturn 3 thrown in) movie should surely win the award for the most irritatingly gratuitous over-use of strobe lighting ever. This makes it extremely uncomfortable to watch and is, presumably, employed to detract from the lack of any genuine thrills. Throw in a ridiculously precocious ship's computer and a downright silly robot, and this adds up to one helluva big turkey in space. James Spader and Angela Bassett do their best to make something out of an inadequate script and plot, but this is unremittingly dreadful and dull. The "happy ever after" finale will probably make you cringe in its corniness. Supernova's only redeeming factor is that it is very short. |
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