Dennis Hopper stars in this lightweight, low-budget space thriller with Hopper as a space rig trucker who accidentally ends up having to try to save earth from organic-robotic domination. A year after his evil performance in the big block-buster flop in Kevin Costners's underrated Waterworld and two years after Hopper's big block-buster evil persona with Keanu Reeve in Speed, Hopper gets to work in an obvious amateur movie as the hero that has some dazzling creative cheap sci fi set designs and a decent if not amazing plot that actually holds together relatively well. Yes, it is cheap, yet for the estimated budget of $25 million instead of the major block budget price ten times more, it provides an acceptable Barbarella (1968) production quality. Overall, a difficult to really pin down quality-wise, but by the end, it rates as an entertaining effort worth at least one afternoon or late-night viewing with a high-end seven out of ten. Do not expect greatness though.
Review of Space Truckers
