THE APOCALYPSE (1997)
A movie review by Chuck Dowling
Copyright 1997 Chuck's Movie Reviews
The Apocalypse (1997) 1/2 out of ***** - Cast: Sandra Bernhard, Cameron Dye, Matt McCoy, Laura San Giacomo, Frank Zagarino. Running Time: 92 minutes.
A direct-to-video, low-budget sci-fi release with an intriguing title and a bizarre cast, but without anything worthwhile to watch. This has all the characteristics of a Roger Corman flick, yet his name is nowhere to be found in the credits.
Now try and follow along with me on this one. Laura San Giacomo is on board a spacecraft, starts to go nuts and runs around in vintage Benny Hill style. Cut to many years in the future. Captains of a salvage ship (Bernhard and McCoy) discover Giacomo's ship and naturally want to salvage it. But they have no crew, so they have to hire a group of untrustworthy scoundrels, who's leader just happens to be Bernhard's former lover. Sure enough, those scoundrels prove themselves to be untrustworthy, as they turn on their employers. But then they find themselves being taunted with Shakespeare by the ship's computer, played by Laura San Giacomo. Make sense to you?
Poor Sandra Bernard. She starts her film career with a bang in Scorsese's "The King of Comedy", then "Sesame Street Presents Follow That Bird" and "Hudson Hawk" have brought her to this. She's SO out of place here, and it seems like she knows it since she gives such a non-performance. Someone reading their script for the first time could deliver more emotion. So when you leave a movie and all you can say is, "Wow, that Matt McCoy is pretty good", then there's a problem there. For what it's worth, Sandra and co-star Cameron Dye also wrote and perform a song during the film's closing credits. [R]
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