Outerworld 1987 Written and directed by Philip J Cook. The movie is listed on the IMDb as Beyond The Rising Moon, it's also been released as Star Quest: Beyond The Rising Moon, Caçada Estelar, Galaxy der Zeitlosen and Más allá de la luna. Philip followed this with Invader in 1992. I gave both movies a 4 on the IMDb. I've not see his 2003 film Despiser nor any of the Malace series of web videos.
It's a low-budget space opera that's currently playing on Amazon Prime. The lady in the poster is a cyborg that was created in a lab, her purpose is to do underhanded stuff for a big corporation. When we meet her, she's with her supervisor Moesby, he wants her to intercept a delivery and bring him the package, she's to make sure the guards are dead so there are no witnesses.
Cyborg lady has questions, why does she have to kill the guards and when will she'll be free to live her own life. He tells her she'll never be free. He's a dick and she's an emotionless killing machine with self doubts. Right then, that's the moment you know Moesby's not gonna get out of this one alive.
Instead of delivering the package to Moesby cyborg lady runs off with the delivery and hooks up with a spacer who's got a small ship. The package contains the location of an ancient alien spacecraft, it's the second alien ship that the human's have found, the first was of great value to the finder, this could be an even better payout. Cyborg lady's boss wants that ship and he sends a bunch of his agents after her. They are little match for her in a fight. Eventually the big boss chases her to the world with the alien spacecraft but even he can't beat her. Big boss and Moesby go out in a blase of glory of their own making.
Like one of my complaints on Invader, this movie is well packed with cliches. The big corp ruthlessly trying to keep it's secrets is one of my least favorite plots. I wouldn't have been so tired of that plot driver in 1987 but it's such an easy plot device that everyone has had a go on it. It's a common plot in thrillers and dramas but I don't watch those sorts of films much. The actors are all about fair for a small picture, none of them have had long careers except for Michael Mack who played Moesby.
The movie has some nice physical models but the CGI is pretty basic. It gets the job done and there are a lot of scenes with ships in space. I gave it a 4 because I thought it was somewhat ambitious in effects area. Money would have helped make it look better but that would still leave the script. Sadly, the copy that AP has looks pretty poor, like it was taken from a video tape. I wonder if the DVD is better? Not that I'm going to buy one to find out, I wouldn't need to see it again.
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