Screamers: The Hunting
by Sheldon Wilson
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Actor: Christopher Redman, Gina Holden, Greg Bryk, Jana Pallaske, Lance HenriksenDirector: Sheldon Wilson
Brand: Sony
Producer: Antony I. Ginnane
Producer: Charles W. Fries
Producer: Gordon Yang
Producer: Josée Bernard
Writer: Miguel Tejada-Flores
Writer: Philip K. Dick
Writer: Tom Berry
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown); Cantonese (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); Korean (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 95 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-02-17
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
DVD Reviews of Screamers: The Hunting
DVD Review: Under-rated
Summary: 4 Stars
The official Amazon.com review here isn't totally fair to the director or this movie. This is actually very high quality for a direct-to-video release. The cinematography is good, the special effects are competent, the dialogue is no worse than any Jerry Bruckheimer movie I've seen in the last five years, and the acting is actually quite good. (No one was ever going to win any Oscars for being in this movie, but seriously, all the performances here are on a par with Judi Dench in Chronicles of Riddick. It's not the actor's fault if he doesn't seem entirely believable while he's getting torn in half by a robot - they do the best they can with the movie they're in.)
The script is also better than your average SyFy channel fare. It has a number of really good ideas, not all of which are stolen from other movies (though some of them are). There's a very well-developed theme here of corruption, for instance, about what can lead a character to make colossally bad decisions. The script does have some weak points, though, and those generally come in the form of colossally bad decisions by the main character that aren't sufficiently motivated, that are just there to advance the plot. If those had been ironed out in order to get from point A to B to C and so on without causing the viewer to lose respect for the protagonist, this movie would definitely have been worthy of a theatrical release. As it is, it's still worth two hours of your time.
I haven't actually seen the first Screamers, by the way, but I'm definitely going to check it out after seeing this one.
P.S. This movie has a slight identity crisis when it comes to who it thinks its audience is. It has some pretty aggressive gore, so not all sci-fi fans will be totally happy with that. At the same time, it's not scary enough to be a horror movie by any stretch, and the amount of gore is nowhere near enough to keep hardcore splatter-film lovers interested. If you're a sci-fi fan who thought that scene in Scanners where the guy's head explodes was pretty boss, then you'll probably like this movie.
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