Starhunter - The Complete Series
by Patrick Malakian, Luc Chalifour, Francois Basset, George Mendeluk
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Actor: Claudette Roche, Michael Pare, Murray Melvin, Stephen Marcus, Tanya AllenDirector: Francois Basset, George Mendeluk, Luc Chalifour, Patrick Malakian
Brand: Echo
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 1056 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-05-29
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: 48689
Studio: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
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- The year is 2275. Earth has colonized the entire solar system, but things are dangerous out there. Enter Dante Montana (Michael Par , BloodRayne, Crash Landing), a reluctant bounty hunter haunted by his past, who, along with his crew, travels the universe in pursuit of dangerous interplanetary criminals, including The Raiders an evil force that Dante believes kidnapped his son. Meanwhile, covert f
DVD Reviews of Starhunter - The Complete Series
DVD Review: One of the worst shows ever produced
Summary: 1 Stars
Starhunter is without question one of the worst things ever committed to film. I gave it one star only because Amazon won't let me give it no stars.
From the cheesy introduction to each episode by the annoying "bounty hunter boss" to the nonsensical jumpy editing and the incomprehensible scripts, I can't imagine how this thing stayed on the air for an entire season.
The first episode of the series has our heroes, two bounty hunters and the teen-aged niece of the ship's captain, transporting a psychotic psychiatrist and her intelligent, but dweeby son to trial for multiple murders on a prison colony.
For reasons that are never explained, they leave the two of them, who are involved in an incestuous affair, in openwork cages right next to each other and leave the woman in possession of a high tech bracelet that she uses to take over the mind of the captain.
During the episode, the niece, who also serves as the engineer and mechanic aboard ship, lets the murderer's son out of his cage, because she thinks he's cute, and precipitates problems based entirely on plot driven stupidity.
If this particular plot had been done say in the middle of the series, after we had gotten to know the characters and started to care about them, it could have been workable, but as the first episode in a series, in which we do not know these people or any of their motivations, it was a complete disaster.
The following episodes, and I will admit here that I was not able to actually finish watching most of them, do not get any better.
In one episode, for example, the writers introduce a ship full of people in the first two minutes and then kill them all off a minute later.
We never actually understand the motivation of the any of the characters and all of their actions seem to be driven by the needs of the plot in that episode rather than any deeply held beliefs.
The ship that they are on, which is apparently an old cruise liner, has space for hundreds of people, but now has only the three inhabitants. This makes no sense from the position of operating a business as the cost of running a ship of that size would be vastly more than one could bring in by picking up and transporting the occasional criminal.
In one episode, we find that there are three military officers who have been in cold storage for the last 50 years on one of the lower decks of the Tulip (yes that is the name of the bounty hunter's ship) who for some reason have never been detected by the three crew members, who have been aboard this ship for years. It is never made clear whether the crew have never been to that deck, or if they simply never noticed the power drain into that abandoned section of the spacecraft.
In another episode, prisoners escape (again) into the ship and the crew have to chase them around this huge vessel that they apparently have not explored.
Ok, so the world creation on the show is bad, the characters make no sense and the technology is absurd, the worst part, however, is the production of the show itself.
The scripts for Starhunter are inane at best and incomprehensible at worst, the acting is mostly sub par, particularly the work of Michael Pare as the captain (who sleepwalks his way through the series), the directing is incompetent and the film editors must have been kidnapped and replaced by monkeys.
This show is so bad that if someone offers it to you for free you should consider them to be your enemy. If you are offered the choice between watching this series and shooting yourself in the head, take the bullet!
Description of Starhunter - The Complete Series
The year is 2275. Earth has colonized the entire solar system, but things are dangerous out there. Enter Dante Montana (Michael Paré, BloodRayne, Crash Landing), a reluctant bounty hunter haunted by his past, who, along with his crew, travels the universe in pursuit of dangerous interplanetary criminals, including The Raiders?an evil force that Dante believes kidnapped his son. Meanwhile, covert forces are waging a desperate war to unlock the secrets of the Divinity Cluster?powerful knowledge that in the wrong hands would mean universal domination...FEATURING 22 EPISODES:
Peer Pressure; Trust; Family Values; The Divinity Cluster; Siren's Song; The Man Who Sold the World; Frozen; Past Lives; Order; Cell Game; Black Light; Goodbye, So Long; The Most Wanted Man; Half Dense Players; Dark and Stormy Night; Super Max; A Twist in Time; Eat Sin; Bad Girls; Bad Seed; Travis; Resurrection
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