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I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Director Stuart Gordon who also created other classic flicks, Stuck 2007, From Beyond 1986 and Re-Animator 1985 has created another gem in Space Truckers.Starring Stephen Dorff who has also been in other classic flicks, Felon 2008, .45 2006, S.F.W. 1994 and Judgement Night 1993.Also starring Dennis Hopper who has also been in other classic flicks, Hell Ride 2008, Land of the Dead 2005, Speed 1994, True Romance 1993, Blue Velvet 1986, Rumblefish 1983, Apocalypse Now 1979, Mad Dog Morgan 1976 and Easy Rider 1969.Also starring Debi Mazar who has also been in other classic flicks, Nowhere 1997, Malcolm X 1992, Jungle Fever 1991 and Goodfellas 1990.Also starring Charles Dance who was also in another classic flick, Ironclad 2011.I enjoyed the special effects.If you enjoyed this as much as I did then check out other classic spaceship flicks, 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968, Apollo 13 1995, Dark Star 1974, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers 1956, Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back 1980, Forbidden Planet 1956, Doppelganger 1969, Marooned 1969, The Right Stuff 1983, Event Horizon 1997, Silent Running 1972, Star Trek 2009, Star Wars 1977, Sunshine 2007, Supernova 2000, Star Trek Into Darkness 2013, Gravity 2013, Interstellar 2014, Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens 2015, Star Trek Beyond 2016 and When Worlds Collide 1951.

Like Stuart Gordon's other venture into science fiction territory, the underrated and ill-fated ROBOT JOX, this is a nifty little film that was plagued by production difficulties and failed to find a theatrical distributor, which is a shame because its quite an enjoyable viewing experience. Everyone in the cast has fun in this , with Dennis Hopper delivering some unexpected and funny bits of dialog, Debi Mazar and Stephen Dorff providing reliable 2nd banana support and Charles Dance having the time of his life with his horny half-metal madman. This Excellent DVD offers a chance to see this little sleeper in a great looking print with a fascinating and funny commentary by the Director. This film delivers exactly what its titles proclaims.

Space Truckers is too vulgar and raunchy for the art house crowd, too clever for the great unwashed, and too silly for anyone expecting to be convinced that they're watching "real" science. The lines are deliberately dorky, the special effects entirely unconvincing (who cares?), and the movie adds up to complete absurdity. I've seen it more than once, and it gets funnier every time. For people who complain that Dennis Hopper must have been really hard up to have agreed to do it, what about Charles Dance, a superb actor (Mr. Tulkinghorn in the new PBS "Bleak House")? They seemed to get the jokes, played it with zest, and managed to make it fly. I thought it was hysterically funny.

When I first heard of this film directed and partially written by Stuart Gordon. I thought the idea of Gordon creating a space adventure was very interesting. I thought, I know Gordon's films don't have $60 million budgets, so I figured most of people who disliked it probably aren't used to lower-calibered sci-fi. Which is extremely hard to do without looking foolish. I must give a lot of credit, Gordon did a very impressive job with the film overall.It takes the absurd nature of The Fi5th Element and the action of Judge Dredd into one, with a dash of Super Mario Brothers and Predator. The film is geared more towards a younger audience, with an apparent lighter tone. It has a PG-13 rating with little gore but I forgot about that. Several surprising great actors pop up in the film, Vernon Wells dressed in full Mad Max 2 outlaw mode. Charles Dance plays a (very) bio-mechanical trench-coated villian who looks as if he stepped out of the PC game Return To Wolfenstein. The main actors (Hopper, Dorff, and Mazar) do a convincing job in light of hammy material.The special effects that are present are done impressively with a keen-eye for detail. The production design is very extensive with a lot of little touches that push the film along. The direction of Gordon is truly dead-on, he offend used the film's full 2:35.1 scope to devastatingly creative effect. Some have bad mouthed the anti-gravity scenes as being horrid but no, this provided some of the most wild camera angles and it was interesting to think of how are did it without the crutch of CGI.They just didn't have $20,000 to burn on a interior spacecraft wall 20 feet behind the camera! They had to make with what they had and everything was used in a 'form follows function manner' The original musical score has a nice 'heavy handedness' to it. The action scenes are loud, tense and the Bio-Mechanical Warriors are the best fast moving 'person-in-suit' monsters in quite sometime. I recommend this film as the perfect time waster.