Dennis Hopper - Space Trucker by SimonSays

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Dennis Hopper - Space Trucker

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UPDATED: Thursday, July 14, 2005 15:02
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Thursday, July 14, 2005 3:02 PM

Someone just reminded me of a Si-Fi "gem" called SPACE TRUCKER I originally caught this opus on late night HBO or Showtime many moons ago. It's cheesy goodness was funny as all get-out! Found this review of it on the NET! I bet copies are available on Amazon!

Review from the Sunday Independent - 27 July 1997

Submitted by Nell

Smokey in space meets Mad Max

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It's hard to know where the tongue-in-cheek cheesiness begins and the bad filmmaking end in Space Truckers, a low-budget sci-fi adventure shot in Bray's Ardmore Studios almost two years ago. When proceedings kick off with the sort of set design even the Thunderbirds would have laughed at, and Dennis Hopper's spaceship fittings look like they were borrowed from Funderland, you know things can only get better. And, mercifully, they do.

The year is 2094, and Hopper is a weathered old space trucker who takes on a no-questions-asked cargo bound for our blue little planet in order to escape from the law. Along for the ride is feisty young gun, Stephen Dorff, and curvy young waitress, Debi Mazar (who gets to spend most of the movie in her bra and panties). Our bickering trio are quickly brought together when they realise their secret delivery is in fact an army of killer ninja robots poised to take over Planet Earth.

George Wendt (Norm from Cheers) makes a brief appearance as a nasty pork tycoon before being sucked ass-first through a porthole, whilst Charles Dance is slightly more memorable as a self-made, half-man/half-robot, leading a pack of Mad Max extras as a pantomime phantom of the galaxy. Both men obviously realised too late that in Bray*, your agent can't hear you scream.

A film so cheesy it actually becomes quite endearing, Space Truckers is Smokey and the Bandit meets The Fifth Element, only without the budget. Or the subtlety.

(*Bray: a town in Co. Wicklow, Ireland, near which Ardmore Film Studio is located.)

Remember what LOUIS VUITTON said: "It's in the bag!"

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