DEFCON-4
“The last defense. The last hope. The battle for the future of the world has begun.”
Certified Crap. CrapScore 53, rated by 1 admin.
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An orbital weapons crew survives nuclear war only to discover that landing has made everything worse. The effective spacebound opening gives way to increasingly wild survival complications and local tyranny. Its small budget supports more invention than the familiar wasteland packaging suggests.
Nominated by @flabbergasted_jones
The club’s verdict
- Acting
- 4.5/10
- Plot
- 7/10
- Effects
- 3.5/10
- Dialogue
- 5/10
- Rewatchability
- 6.5/10
“The worst part of surviving orbit is having to come home.”
@flabbergasted_jones, scored it 53
Synopsis and movie facts
Two men and a woman circle the globe in a satellite armed with a nuclear device. The third world war breaks out, and a few months later the satellite crashes. They survive the crash but one man gets killed by survivors and the other man gets caught. The woman stays by the remains of the the satellite but is soon caught by evil punks who have taken power.
- Released
- 1985
- Directed by
- Paul Donovan
- Running time
- 88 min
Starring
- Lenore Zann as J.J.
- Maury Chaykin as Vinny
- Kate Lynch as Jordan
- Kevin King as Gideon Hayes
- John Walsch as Walker
- Tim Choate as Howe
- Jeff Pustil as Lacey
- Donna King as Alice
Research behind this pick
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- Film reference · themoviedb.org
Canonical film identity, release date, runtime, director credits, cast, genres, synopsis and poster checked against TMDB movie 42033.
- Review · moriareviews.com
The review praises the economical orbital opening and inventive escalation after landing.
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