K B After watching this movie I decided to take the initiative and open a support account for Christian Slater. The guy is a great actor but he is obviously in serious economic distress if he willingly decided to star in this joke of a sci-fi film. There isn't much to say about it other that it is below the standards of a high school play. I don't feel bad trashing it because the budget must have been someone's lunch money so I imagine that even if 2 people payed to watch in in the whole world it made some profit. And yes, the space suit helmets are painted motorcycle helmets and Slater IS talking to a book flashlight through the movie. It is THAT ridiculous.

suite92 A mining company on the moon has one of its bases damaged by a meteor storm. Some of the rocks break open after finding their way into the station. Some sort of life form is detected; it multiplies rapidly. Communications are out; attempts to re-assert communications fail.Ava gets a knick on her finger through which she is infected. This gives rise to a rapidly accelerated pregnancy. She gives birth, but no one will believe her.Bruce Johns gets cloned by the aliens. It takes the Colonel and the Dr a long time to figure this out. In the meantime, they blame Ava and keep her locked up. After a pleasant chat, they let her go and enlist her help.The alien, as Bruce Johns, starts to shut down their oxygen supply system. They attempt a counter-strike, but this fails badly. Will their next attempt? Does anyone survive this one? ------Scores-------Cinematography: 4/10 Dark, with shadows placed so that significant things are hard to make out, but trivial objects are clear as day.Sound: 8/10 Reasonably good.Acting: 1/10 Zounds. Terrible. Brendan Fehr: better in Roswell or Bones or CSI:Miami; not all that believable as a staff physician on a moon base. Christian Slater: one of his worst performances ever. Amy Matysio: have not encountered her before, and this was a bad start. Michael Therriault: plays a weak, incompetent whom no one believes, and who is short on emotional stability. Why would such a character ever be hired for work in space?Screenplay: 1/10 Absurd dialog. Weak, derivative story. Logical mistakes aplenty.SFX: 0/10 Terrible. The opening sequence with the meteor storm was laughably bad. Creature effects were ridiculous.

zardoz-13 The Christian Slater sci-fi horror chiller "Stranded" amounts to an uninspired, low-budget, imitation of two classics: Ridley Scott's "Alien" and Howard Hawks' "The Thing from Another World." Despite better than average production values, a sturdy cast, and a twist ending, "Stranded" will leave you feeling stranded. "Battlefield Earth" director Roger Christian fails to generate a modicum of suspense or paranoia in this tedious tale of terror in space. Thrills and chills are conspicuous by their absence here and nothing leaps out at us. Good horror movies require at least five scary scenes as well as scenes where you think something hideous is going to happen. You have no reason to break a sweat or glance away when things become too intense. A freak meteor shower devastates a lunar mining base, and Colonel Gerard Brauchman (Christian Slater) and his crew of three, two guys and one gal, find themselves contending with a murderous alien life-form. No, this homicidal intruder isn't a monster with bug eyes and tentacles. The alien spore enters our heroine and she becomes pregnant in no time at all. Dr. Krauss has warned everybody that under the conditions they are having at the bio-dome, each of them could easily end up hallucinating or behaving in a bizarre manner. Our heroes venture outside and bring back samples of the meteor. They isolate the alien spore on the rock and things are never the same afterward. The resourceful alien replicates one of the crew after it leaves Ava's womb and does many dastardly deeds. Squeamish spectators who hate the sight of blood should prepare themselves for occasional displays of gore. Colin Hubick conjures up some effective visual effects when one of the crew undergoes a transformation into an alien. Christian and co-scenarist Christian Piers Betley dutifully maintain all the clichés, but "Stranded" suffers from an absence of atmosphere. Confined primarily to the command center, laboratories, and sleeping accommodations of the mining base, the setting never seems claustrophobic enough with humans trapped inside of it and battling for their survival. The meteor shower knocks out some functions at the Moon Base Bio-Dome so our heroes are isolated. While she is performing an analysis of a meteor fragment, Ava Cameron (Amy Matysio of "Just Friends") cuts her finger on a shattered test tube. Such is her fear that she has screwed up badly that Ava doesn't inform either Colonel Brauchman or the camp doctor, Dr. Lance Krauss (Brendan Fehr of "Final Destination"), about her injury. Eventually, Ava gets so sick and Dr. Krauss puts her in the medical bay while Brauchman urges him to slap her in quarantine. Brauchman, it turns out, is a stickler for following the rules. About an hour into this opus, Dr. Krauss presents the Colonel with a score card. They know they have an alien prowling their premises and one man is dead. Predictably, our heroes have a difficult time contacting Earth and sending out a distress signal. The miniature work is sub-standard, and "Stranded" doesn't move quickly in spite of its 88-minute running time. Nothing about the dialogue is quotable, and the characters are all one-dimensional. Believe me, you've seen "Stranded" before when it was a better movie such as "Alien" or "The Thing from Another World."

Tom Rennen I am a filmmaker and try to be as objective as possible. Understanding that many films have limitations, I try to see beyond the finances and look for other qualities such as performance, story, direction, and execution.Well, I looked for nearly an hour and found myself, after the first 3 minutes, wishing that a piece of the space shuttle would re-enter the atmosphere, crash through my roof, and hit me in the head.The most exciting moment of this viewing experience was when I finally decided to hit the stop button on my DVD player. The folks that made this fiasco should seriously consider Truckmasters or barber college.