Black Moon Rising
1986 Directed by Harley Cokliss
Synopsis
It's aerodynamically perfect. It holds all technical extras, is only 86cm high and a top speed of 560km/h. the name is Black Moon.
Working for the US Government to retrieve a cassette with vital information, Sam Quint, a former CIA agent (Jones), runs into Marvin Ringer (Lee Ving), another hitman he replaced, who is after the same cassette. In a desperate attempt to evade Ringer and get the tape back to a government official (played by Bubba Smith), Quint hides the cassette in a 300-MPH prototype vehicle, the Black Moon, which is on a transporter destined for a public presentation in Los Angeles. Before Quint can recover the cassette, Nina (Hamilton) steals the Black Moon, with Quint on her tail, and returns it to a warehouse, the headquarters for the car thief ring headed by Ed Ryland (Vaughn). Quint must lure Nina into helping him recover the Black Moon, with the help of its driver and his crew, and make it out alive with the cassette and the car before the next day.
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I never considered you competition, Marvin.
-QuintA John Carpenter script produced by Roger Corman's studio New World Pictures. Those two elements alone should intrigue any fan of genre pictures. It's one of a handful of films Carpenter wrote but didn't direct, those duties went to Harley Cokeliss. He was one of the second unit studio directors on Empire Strikes Back and to be honest this is probably his biggest accomplishment after that, unless directing episodes of Hercules and Xena: Warrior Princess brings a certain prestige to directors that I'm unaware of.
The film is made with 80s action movie sensibilities and doesn't seem to aspire to be anything more. The plot however is nothing but typical as it involves…
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A John Carpenter script, an amazing cast(Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Hamilton, Richard Jaekel, Robert Vaughn, Dan Shor, Lee Ving, Bubba Smith & Keenan Wynn!), and a super-car. What more could one want in an 80s movie?
Feels like it'd make a nice double with LOOKER. -
From the pen of John Carpenter is always going to ring some of my bells and with Linda Hamilton, Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Vaughn all turning good fun performances I am surprised I had not seen or heard of this before. There are some excellent fight scenes particularly the final one and while some of the stuff is predictable there are some nice little touches that I appreciated and I recommend this to everyone who has ever enjoyed an 80's action film.
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Written by John Carpenter and directed by Harry Cokeliss, Black Moon Rising (1986) is the epitome of a bad 80s movie. So bad its GOOD! With production values worthy of an ABC Movie of the Week and a plot right out of a campiest episode of Knight Rider, it's sure to bring a little bad movie joy to your Saturday night.
Starring Tommy Lee Jones and Linda Hamilton, Black Moon Rising is a movie with a personality problem. Black Moon Rising can't decide whether it's film about car thieves, a heist caper or an action movie. Hearing all the pitch ideas, I'm sure an enterprising New Line studio exec suggested, "Why don't we take all three concepts and make one…
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I never considered you competition, Marvin.
-QuintA John Carpenter script produced by Roger Corman's studio New World Pictures. Those two elements alone should intrigue any fan of genre pictures. It's one of a handful of films Carpenter wrote but didn't direct, those duties went to Harley Cokeliss. He was one of the second unit studio directors on Empire Strikes Back and to be honest this is probably his biggest accomplishment after that, unless directing episodes of Hercules and Xena: Warrior Princess brings a certain prestige to directors that I'm unaware of.
The film is made with 80s action movie sensibilities and doesn't seem to aspire to be anything more. The plot however is nothing but typical as it involves…
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Not a very good viewing of a movie that had some great ideas but didn't exactly execute them very well. Too many plotholes and not enough of Linda Hamilton's boobs. Tommy Lee Jones is pretty much the only good thing about this film. You are better off just to stay away from this one
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Cheesy 80's action romp with Tommy Lee Jones and Linda Hamilton. It's fun but quite goofy. I enjoyed it's stylish direction and wonderful soundtrack.
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A John Carpenter script, an amazing cast(Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Hamilton, Richard Jaekel, Robert Vaughn, Dan Shor, Lee Ving, Bubba Smith & Keenan Wynn!), and a super-car. What more could one want in an 80s movie?
Feels like it'd make a nice double with LOOKER. -
From the pen of John Carpenter is always going to ring some of my bells and with Linda Hamilton, Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Vaughn all turning good fun performances I am surprised I had not seen or heard of this before. There are some excellent fight scenes particularly the final one and while some of the stuff is predictable there are some nice little touches that I appreciated and I recommend this to everyone who has ever enjoyed an 80's action film.
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This was a re-watch and one that was long overdue.
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Written by John Carpenter and directed by Harry Cokeliss, Black Moon Rising (1986) is the epitome of a bad 80s movie. So bad its GOOD! With production values worthy of an ABC Movie of the Week and a plot right out of a campiest episode of Knight Rider, it's sure to bring a little bad movie joy to your Saturday night.
Starring Tommy Lee Jones and Linda Hamilton, Black Moon Rising is a movie with a personality problem. Black Moon Rising can't decide whether it's film about car thieves, a heist caper or an action movie. Hearing all the pitch ideas, I'm sure an enterprising New Line studio exec suggested, "Why don't we take all three concepts and make one…
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Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Hamilton, Robert Vaughn, John Carpenter story & script, Lalo Schifrin score, 80s hitech super car.. there's no way i couldn't love this.
I'm quite amazed i've not heard of it before, given all those reference points.