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VHS : Solar Crisis (VHS)In association with Amazon.comstarring: Tim Matheson, Charlton Heston, Peter Boyle, Annabel Schofield, Corin Nemec directed by: Alan Smithee, Richard C. Sarafian  List Price: $14.99 Price: $3.87 You Save: $11.12 (74%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786302681772 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 6302681774 Label: Vidmark / Trimark Manufacturer: Vidmark / Trimark Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Vidmark / Trimark Release Date: January 01, 1998 Running Time: 112 minutes Studio: Vidmark / Trimark Theatrical Release Date: 1992 Sales Rank: 35327 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Amazon.com: Not everyone will have the patience for Solar Crisis; in many ways, it lands on the not-so-good end of the B-movie spectrum. Possibly something got lost in translation between the American crew and the Japanese producers. The premise: a giant solar flare is threatening to end all life on Earth. Our only hope is an antimatter bomb launched into the sun to trigger the flare prematurely. A greedy corporate concern (headed by Peter Boyle as a somewhat doofy antichrist) sabotages the mission. Meanwhile, the mission leader is under additional pressure--his admiral father (Charlton Heston) has descended to the near-apocalyptic Earth to rescue his son (Corin Nemec) who has gone AWOL from his military academy. Jack Palance gives the best performance in the film as a half-crazy desert dweller who rescues the son from the cruel environment and the corporate goons. Story sound a little complicated? Wait till you get to the "intelligent bomb" subplot. This movie has high hopes and some interesting moments, but can't make up its mind whether it's a Mad Max-style end-of-the-world movie, an Outland-style space thriller, or a Blade Runner-style "soul of the robot" meditation. It's none of the above. Best viewed after midnight. --Grant Balfour Average Rating:
 Rating:  - The Ultimate AdventureSolar Crisis turned out to be a surprise. At first, the film starts out as a typical science fiction movie; you know, pretentious. Then, slowly as the plot finally emerges out from its "suspense"--behold!--a story that can be considered truly "science fiction." Without giving its ending away, Solar Crisis spiral its story and its characters into the heart of the sun. The movie does one thing that most science fiction film of late have failed to accomplish or forgotten its original premise: that ... Read More Rating:  - Sci-fi at it's most inert - so bad that it's NOT goodThe world is facing imminent destruction and a suicide mission is sent to the Sun to avert catastrophe by firing a bomb into its fiery heart: no, it's not Sunshine, it's Solar Crisis, aka Crisis 2050, which burned up a huge chunk of change that's never apparent on screen back in 1990 and returned barely enough to buy a Happy Meal for each of the cast in Japan before going straight to video (remember them?) in the re-edited version presented here that's credited to one Alan Smithee. The plot hook's pretty ... Read More Rating: - Exploding bomb!I would actually give this "film" no stars. Quite possibly, next to a few others, this has to be one of the most convuluted, boring and sickening movies to watch. Want the storyline? Refer to the title, and thats about as exstensive as it gets. I own this on laser disc and have wanted to burn it for years. So many quality films being excluded from dvd and this pile of junk gets released. Too bad alot of good actors got caught up in this mess, but they are just as responsible. Man, this is bad, dont waste ... Read More Rating: - Alan Smithee Strikes Again :)Here is your first clue - Directed by Alan Smithee. I would definitely like to know the story behind this movie. Like some of the previous reviewers I'll point out that this film is definitely a failure, but I would love to see the original screenplay. It seems to me that this movie was probably supposed to be 2+ hours and somebody came into the editing room and randomly removed large chunks to shrink the running time. I can't even discuss the performances because they all seem so incomplete. Here is ... Read More Rating:  - Inept sci-fiThis flick posits the world facing a doomsday solar flare in the near future. Tim Matheson leads a cast of boring action figures to the edge of the sun, where he will pilot a smaller spaceship into the sun while carrying an anti-matter bomb - what amounts to a suicide mission. (The science of solar flares theorizes that they form based on magnetic lines that work like rubber bands; the bomb will snap the lines and prevent the lethal flare from forming.) Meanwhile, Matheson's son escapes from his military ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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