Nightflyers (1987) – Director: Robert Collector – 2/10 (very bad)
Despite the underlying idea being quite good, individual components relating to the production design such as sets, costumes, lighting and special effects all look quite tawdry and gaunt; what makes the whole affair even more unpalatable is its hysterically overactive storytelling stemming both from film’s cumbersome writing and wretched execution; the narrative includes multiple “ups and downs” and that in conjunction with its awkward handling of consecutive phases of the script makes the whole enchilada feel like it has several climaxes instead of just one; the quality of acting leaves much to be desired and does little to remedy the situation to any significant extent either. The movie feels a lot longer than a mere hour and a half which best betokens the kind of emotional response this dud ultimately elicits: the motion picture is excruciatingly insipid in spite of numerous crescendi and eventually comes to embody the opposite of what it is presumably striving for.
