Space Mutiny (1988)

Don't listen to the negative reviews

Best movie ever!

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

I watched Space Mutiny Regular Version & MST3K version. It was unbearable. I usually enjoy these failures for a good laugh but it was so bad that Not even MST3K version could save this movie. The character development was nil, the plot was superficial and from beginning to end it was completely & painfully predictable & the "love scenes" were like a bad high school play! This review is a gesture of kindness to warn people before they see it because in my estimation it is not worth even thinking about seeing this movie!I wish I could rate this movie -1000 stars!

I would have liked to have given this a lengthy drawn out technical review like many other reviewers here did. I'm sure that would help me psychologically after what I just saw, but I must admit that I truly feel enlightened and more appreciative of other movies that I have severely criticized. This piece of trash goes above and beyond bad script, bad acting, bad props, bad directing, bad casting, bad editing, bad continuity, bad effects, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad...and the list goes on. If someone told me this was directed by a high school class, I would believe them. If someone told me this movie was meant to be an example of how NOT TO MAKE A MOVIE, I would believe them. I've seen amateur footage on YouTube more entertaining in spirit. It encompasses everything that you hate about the 80's, while still managing to incorporate everything that you would hate in a very low, rock bottom basement budget home movie. I simply couldn't believe that I was seeing Cameron Mitchell wearing a fake beard in this bit of eye dung, playing the cloned part of Lorene Greene from Battlestar Galactica. Clearly, this was the result of the following homework: watch Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon. Believe in your hallucination that you are the guru of science fiction and know everything any 12 year old knows. Waste rolls of expensive professional film on worthless scenes that your talking dog dreams up. Viola! Space Mutiny is born! If I had a smart gun, I'd hunt down everyone involved and shoot them until they were intelligent enough understand what they've done. I had to ask myself the questions whether anyone involved in the film had even seen the movie? If they got paid? If they were they drugged? Or, did an entire group of actors lost a bet? I would only suggest watching this junk if you are a video masochist.

The peace and serenity of the spaceship Southern Sun gets rudely disrupted by a nasty gang of mutineers led by the evil Flight Commander Elijah Kalgan (an outrageously hammy portrayal by a constantly scowling John Phillip Law). It's up to mighty macho man supreme Dave Ryder (beefy hunk Reb Brown, who displays all the charisma of a can of spoiled Spam) to stop Kalgan before it's too late. Poorly directed with jaw-dropping ineptitude by David Winters, further blessed with dreadful acting, rusty tin-eared dialogue (sample line: "Surrender or be blown into astro dust!"), copious special effects footage lifted from "Battlestar Galactica," badly staged action scenes (a protracted chase sequence involving a couple of souped-up futuristic golf carts is especially sidesplitting), laughable costumes, tacky opening titles, cheesy (markedly less than) special effects, crummy sets (the spaceship cargo bay looks just like a rundown old oil refinery -- and probably was exactly that!), and the insanely cool-rockin' ending credits theme song "The Edge of A Dream," this gloriously ghastly marvel of all-out celluloid awfulness is an uproariously atrocious riot from stinky start to fumbling finish. The uniformly abysmal performances from the Hall of Shame Faded (Semi) Name cast provides a lion's share of the unintentional hilarity: Brown projects all the appeal of a smelly plastic bag full of fresh cow excrement, Law cuts loose with the same irritating psycho cackle with appalling regularity, Cameron Mitchell sports a ridiculously fake-looking Santa Claus-style snowy white beard as the wise, gentle Commander Alex Jansen, martial arts movie star James Ryan terribly overacts as the hateful and traitorous cripple MacPhearson, and Graham Clarke sleepwalks through his part as the stolid Captain Scott Devers. Moreover, Cisse Cameron as the spunky Dr. Lea Jansen sure looks cute and steams up the screen with her remarkably sexy hula hoop disco dance. Plus a bunch of yummy psychic alien babes help our heroes out. An absolute cruddy hoot.

This movie is by far my absolute favorite of all time. For me it is the most intelligent, philosophical and high-brow science fiction movie since "2001"! It simply is the "Citizen Kane" of SF and I wonder why it was not even nominated for an Oscar."Space Mutiny" has a more fantastic and innovative story than "Star Wars" and more emotion than "Love Story". It's an amazing, fantastic, breathtaking movie about the mysteries of life, love, space and time.But the best of it are the special effects: In an unique act of humanity it took away hard work of dozens of effect specialists by simply borrowing nearly all effects by "Battlestar Galactica". For that brilliant idea alone it deserves an Academy award!