Deep Space (1988) – Director: Fred Olen Ray – 2/10 (very bad)
This is basically a low-budgeted rip-off of The Thing (1982), The Blob (1988) and Alien (1979), but without any finesse or sophistication exhibited by these classics. From the very get-go, the motion picture bears all the hallmarks of cheap filmmaking of its era: lazy editing, atrocious acting and ubiquitous paltriness of its content. While this jocular artlessness could possibly prove advantageous under the right circumstances, the movie merely sets out to indulge in predictably crude tongue-in-cheek humor at the expense of any real tension or three-dimensional characters. Unless you find hammering aliens with baseball bats hilarious and need nothing else to stay invested in the story, you should probably skip this one, as a large chunk of the narrative feels like a gratuitous exercise in unfunny sci-fi schlock. Still, if you are adventurous enough, you may want to give this one a try, especially if you yearn to see Charles Napier playing the bagpipes for whatever obscure reason.
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