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Starforce (2000)
Not even up to SyFy channel standards
This was on Prime Video today and I watched it at 6am while I let the dog out to do his business. I try hard to not watch the movies made for SyFy channel like Ape v Monster and Aquarium of the Dead. But sometimes one sneaks past my defenses. What marks this as a substandard movie is the poor script, the micro-budget sets, and the lack of extras. When this is supposed to be a troop of soldiers or a colony of convicts and civilians, you would expect to see a plethora of extras hired to bulk out the populations. Not so here. Six or seven convicts and a few more in unbelievable death poses. Only one civilian (that I remember) and he was dead.
The CGI reminds me a bit of The Last Starfighter (1984), though it had none of the smoothness of that film. Space ships were herky-jerky and poorly rendered. Pilots in cockpits were so unbelievable I had to laugh.
While the two main characters were easy to look at, they delivered their (poorly written) lines like automatons. Just a side note: I was looking for the name of Amy Weber's Nipple Wrangler in the credits.
Make no mistake, this is a movie typical of the poor product put out by the SyFy channel. I just wish streaming services would label them as such.
In all fairness, though, this movie stands head and shoulders above Robowoman.(2019) with one of the most repulsive actresses I've ever seen, Dawna Lee Heising.
RoboWoman (2019)
Are you kidding me?
OK, this has to be a first-year student film that got a C-. Extremely poor acting. Extremely poor camera work. Extremely poor lighting and audio. Ludicrous script.
Dawna Lee Heising has to be one of the most unwatchable people I've ever seen (even more-so than her costars). And whoever told her she could be an action star was lying. She can barely stand up when training her 'fighting' skills and visibly stumbles several times. Her punches are like my five year old grandson's.
Ms. Heising is in an extensive series of films exactly like this and I shudder to think people would choose to watch more after seeing one.
Finally, the cover art for this 'film' is like seeing a TV commercial for a thick delicious double cheeseburger only to get a smooshed unappetizing disappointing mess for the real thing. Don't be fooled into watching.
If you haven't watched this, don't.
If you have, go wash your eyes out. With soap.