Black Moon Rising
Starring:Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Hamilton, Robert Vaughn, Richard Jaeckel, Lee Ving, Bubba Smith, Dan Shor, William Sanderson, Keenan Wynn, Nick Cassavetes, Richard Angarola, Don Keith Opper, William Marquez, David Pressman, Stanley DeSantis, Edward Parone, Al White, Bill Moody, Townsend Coleman, Dalton Cathey
Director: Harley Cokeliss
Studio: Anchor Bay
Product Type: DVD
Editorial Review:
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With a screenplay partially written by John Carpenter (Halloween), a cast that includes Tommy Lee Jones in the lead, and a dream car called the Black Moon that travels up to 350 miles per hour, one should feel entitled to see a pretty good movie here. It doesn't quite work out that way, however. Jones plays a high-tech thief squeezed by the government into stealing data from a shady corporation. Under pursuit, he slips the booty into the back of the lightning-quick Black Moon, which is subsequently stolen by Robert Vaughn's hot-car operation. And so on. What could have been a smart, fast-paced action piece with some original elements and heated visuals suddenly cools after the story setup. It cools so much, in fact, that one begins to question the film's logic: why on earth, for example, would a smart, visionary villain such as Vaughn's character limit himself to stolen vehicles? Carpenter fans and other completists will want to check this out, understandably, but the rest of us will have to find points of interest in Jones's sharpened wits and supporting performances by Linda Hamilton, Lee Ving, and Richard Jaeckel. Directed by Harley Cokliss. --Tom Keogh
Average customer rating:
- Black Moon Rising
- Great movie, poor quality product
- Less than enjoyable high tech 80's car movie
- TOMMY LEE MAKES IT WORTH IT BUT---------------
- Watchable thriller
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Black Moon Rising
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones , Linda Hamilton , Robert Vaughn , Richard Jaeckel , and Lee Ving
Director: Harley Cokeliss
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With a screenplay partially written by John Carpenter (Halloween), a cast that includes Tommy Lee Jones in the lead, and a dream car called the Black Moon that travels up to 350 miles per hour, one should feel entitled to see a pretty good movie here. It doesn't quite work out that way, however. Jones plays a high-tech thief squeezed by the government into stealing data from a shady corporation. Under pursuit, he slips the booty into the back of the lightning-quick Black Moon, which is subsequently stolen by Robert Vaughn's hot-car operation. And so on. What could have been a smart, fast-paced action piece with some original elements and heated visuals suddenly cools after the story setup. It cools so much, in fact, that one begins to question the film's logic: why on earth, for example, would a smart, visionary villain such as Vaughn's character limit himself to stolen vehicles? Carpenter fans and other completists will want to check this out, understandably, but the rest of us will have to find points of interest in Jones's sharpened wits and supporting performances by Linda Hamilton, Lee Ving, and Richard Jaeckel. Directed by Harley Cokliss. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews:
Black Moon Rising.......2006-08-12
This is the classic John Carpenter action movie. It's one of his original film efforts circa 1986, it features a Tommy Lee Jones, as a thief under contract by the US District Attorney's office. He is charged with retrieving vital records kept at a company and things go sideways upon his escape.
While he is retreating from the theft he is seen by a man from his past. He hides the records in a special prototype car called the Black Moon as he tries to evade his pursuers. And in traditional John Carpenter style the car he hides it in gets stolen by carjacking specialist Linda Hamilton. Jones follows her to a warehouse filled with stolen high priced autos which happens to be owned by suave criminal Robert Vaughn.
If you are a Carpenter fan you'll find a pleasurable film experience in Black Moon Rising. The snappy dialog, the old 80's clothing and the really cool chases made even more spectacular by Carpenter's attention to detail make this a definite must see film.
Great movie, poor quality product.......2006-05-31
As with others here, I loved this movie from the first time I saw it. However, I suspected the DVD was a bootleg copy when it first began to play, and so I then popped in my VHS tape. Sure enough, the very first scene, which is only about 30 seconds long, is missing on the DVD. It's critical because the scene sets up WHY the rest of the movie is important... a telex message advising a government operative to use any freelance methods necessary to retrieve accounting files from a company guilty of [...].
Additionally, the sound quality of the DVD is quite bad on my copy, starting out extremely loud and then becoming too soft.
I too hope this movie is tidied up and then re-released. I wish I had waited...
Less than enjoyable high tech 80's car movie.......2005-08-14
Maybe it was because of Night Rider, James Bond or Back to the Future, but there seemed to a be a huge amount of 80's action movies involving high tech cars. Sadly, this one features a car that is only mildly cool, and a storyline so hackneyed you wonder if maybe John Carpenter should be doing more constructive things with his free time.
Tommy Lee Jones is Sam Quint, a government thief who is looking to land that one last job and retire. He steals a top secret cassette tape for the Feds and is pursued by a former colleage with a horrible mullet. Sam randomly comes across a high tech hydrogen powered experimental car at a gas station and hides the cassette within it. But wouldn't you know? The car is stolen by Terminator target Lind Hamilton, who works for Robert "I never play a good guy" Vaughn, a millionaire who seems to have probably the most elaborate car theft operation I've ever seen. In fact, its never explained as to how he got such a great fortune and why he is so fixated on the relatively backwater business of car theft.
What makes this movie dull is the lack of action and the fact that three unrelated storylines are woven into each other. You have Quint on the run from the evil mullet guy and looking to get the tape back to Hightower from Police Academy so he can retire. Then you have the three science geek inventors of the Black Moon(Its never referred to by this name, its simply 'the car') who need their car back in time for an Italian car show. Then you have Linda Hamilton, her horrible wigs, Robert Vaughn and this fancy shmancy car theft operation. Everything is just thrown together. Tommy Lee has his trademark charisma, but he doesn't seem to be as professional as a man in his field should be. He's not very discreet and makes his presence very conspicuous when trying to retrieve the tape. In one scene, he seriously gets the living crap beaten out of him! The sex scene he has with Linda Hamilton is also random. One minute, they're in a car together talking in a pretty unsuggestive way. The next scene, they're getting it on. The supporting characters are pretty worthless(Evil mullet man, annoying mute car mechanic guy, tall murderous henchman dude). And Robert Vaughn comes off as a lackluster and somewhat dirty old man villain. He likes to watch videos of Linda Hamilton by himself a lot.
This is one boring flick folks. Why the two stars? Its not that bad, but still pretty dull.
TOMMY LEE MAKES IT WORTH IT BUT---------------.......2005-02-09
Tommy Lee makes the movie worth watching except for the one objectionable scene with Hamilton.
She does not do her role justice but I assume this is about the beginning of her career. At times her delivery of speech was much too soft.
Her acting was ok. As for pulling a car heist? Ah, well!
What a way to lose his evidence. Hey, the police hired Quint! What do they expect?
Great action - darn good actors - fast enough pace for the story - Tommy Lee just keeps getting better.
Might recommend but ??????????????????????????
Watchable thriller.......2005-01-15
Tommy Lee Jones plays a freelance thief who is hired by the US government to steal a computer tape from a Las Vegas gang boss .The gand members are less than delighted when he accomplishes his mission and set out to get the tape back and eliminate him in the process.With the gang in hot pursuit he conceals the tape in the Black Moon ,a new experimental car with some distinctly high performance features .Unfortunately for him the car is stollen by Linda Hamilton for a hot car ring run by Robert Vaughn .
Jones need to retrieve the car and the tape -no easy task given that they are in a fortress like office tower AND the bad guys ,headed by Vin Rames ,together with a federal agent ,played splendidly by Bubba Smith are all after him ,and not for the purpose of selling him health insurance !
The story is not especially plausible but the vigorous direction from Harley Cokliss helps paper over the narrative cracke .Jones is -as ever-splendid and the rest of the cast are way better than the material
Good action scenes and a lively pace ensure you will have a good time watching this -although one scene in which Jones absorbs a brutal beating seemed a tad over the top to me .It just lacked a better script to elevate it a notch or two higher in the eighties thriller league
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- Black Moon Rising
- Great movie, poor quality product
- Less than enjoyable high tech 80's car movie
- TOMMY LEE MAKES IT WORTH IT BUT---------------
- Watchable thriller
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Starring: Tommy Lee Jones , Linda Hamilton , Robert Vaughn , Richard Jaeckel , and Lee Ving
Director: Harley Cokeliss
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Amazon.com
With a screenplay partially written by John Carpenter (Halloween), a cast that includes Tommy Lee Jones in the lead, and a dream car called the Black Moon that travels up to 350 miles per hour, one should feel entitled to see a pretty good movie here. It doesn't quite work out that way, however. Jones plays a high-tech thief squeezed by the government into stealing data from a shady corporation. Under pursuit, he slips the booty into the back of the lightning-quick Black Moon, which is subsequently stolen by Robert Vaughn's hot-car operation. And so on. What could have been a smart, fast-paced action piece with some original elements and heated visuals suddenly cools after the story setup. It cools so much, in fact, that one begins to question the film's logic: why on earth, for example, would a smart, visionary villain such as Vaughn's character limit himself to stolen vehicles? Carpenter fans and other completists will want to check this out, understandably, but the rest of us will have to find points of interest in Jones's sharpened wits and supporting performances by Linda Hamilton, Lee Ving, and Richard Jaeckel. Directed by Harley Cokliss. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews:
Black Moon Rising.......2006-08-12
This is the classic John Carpenter action movie. It's one of his original film efforts circa 1986, it features a Tommy Lee Jones, as a thief under contract by the US District Attorney's office. He is charged with retrieving vital records kept at a company and things go sideways upon his escape.
While he is retreating from the theft he is seen by a man from his past. He hides the records in a special prototype car called the Black Moon as he tries to evade his pursuers. And in traditional John Carpenter style the car he hides it in gets stolen by carjacking specialist Linda Hamilton. Jones follows her to a warehouse filled with stolen high priced autos which happens to be owned by suave criminal Robert Vaughn.
If you are a Carpenter fan you'll find a pleasurable film experience in Black Moon Rising. The snappy dialog, the old 80's clothing and the really cool chases made even more spectacular by Carpenter's attention to detail make this a definite must see film.
Great movie, poor quality product.......2006-05-31
As with others here, I loved this movie from the first time I saw it. However, I suspected the DVD was a bootleg copy when it first began to play, and so I then popped in my VHS tape. Sure enough, the very first scene, which is only about 30 seconds long, is missing on the DVD. It's critical because the scene sets up WHY the rest of the movie is important... a telex message advising a government operative to use any freelance methods necessary to retrieve accounting files from a company guilty of [...].
Additionally, the sound quality of the DVD is quite bad on my copy, starting out extremely loud and then becoming too soft.
I too hope this movie is tidied up and then re-released. I wish I had waited...
Less than enjoyable high tech 80's car movie.......2005-08-14
Maybe it was because of Night Rider, James Bond or Back to the Future, but there seemed to a be a huge amount of 80's action movies involving high tech cars. Sadly, this one features a car that is only mildly cool, and a storyline so hackneyed you wonder if maybe John Carpenter should be doing more constructive things with his free time.
Tommy Lee Jones is Sam Quint, a government thief who is looking to land that one last job and retire. He steals a top secret cassette tape for the Feds and is pursued by a former colleage with a horrible mullet. Sam randomly comes across a high tech hydrogen powered experimental car at a gas station and hides the cassette within it. But wouldn't you know? The car is stolen by Terminator target Lind Hamilton, who works for Robert "I never play a good guy" Vaughn, a millionaire who seems to have probably the most elaborate car theft operation I've ever seen. In fact, its never explained as to how he got such a great fortune and why he is so fixated on the relatively backwater business of car theft.
What makes this movie dull is the lack of action and the fact that three unrelated storylines are woven into each other. You have Quint on the run from the evil mullet guy and looking to get the tape back to Hightower from Police Academy so he can retire. Then you have the three science geek inventors of the Black Moon(Its never referred to by this name, its simply 'the car') who need their car back in time for an Italian car show. Then you have Linda Hamilton, her horrible wigs, Robert Vaughn and this fancy shmancy car theft operation. Everything is just thrown together. Tommy Lee has his trademark charisma, but he doesn't seem to be as professional as a man in his field should be. He's not very discreet and makes his presence very conspicuous when trying to retrieve the tape. In one scene, he seriously gets the living crap beaten out of him! The sex scene he has with Linda Hamilton is also random. One minute, they're in a car together talking in a pretty unsuggestive way. The next scene, they're getting it on. The supporting characters are pretty worthless(Evil mullet man, annoying mute car mechanic guy, tall murderous henchman dude). And Robert Vaughn comes off as a lackluster and somewhat dirty old man villain. He likes to watch videos of Linda Hamilton by himself a lot.
This is one boring flick folks. Why the two stars? Its not that bad, but still pretty dull.
TOMMY LEE MAKES IT WORTH IT BUT---------------.......2005-02-09
Tommy Lee makes the movie worth watching except for the one objectionable scene with Hamilton.
She does not do her role justice but I assume this is about the beginning of her career. At times her delivery of speech was much too soft.
Her acting was ok. As for pulling a car heist? Ah, well!
What a way to lose his evidence. Hey, the police hired Quint! What do they expect?
Great action - darn good actors - fast enough pace for the story - Tommy Lee just keeps getting better.
Might recommend but ??????????????????????????
Watchable thriller.......2005-01-15
Tommy Lee Jones plays a freelance thief who is hired by the US government to steal a computer tape from a Las Vegas gang boss .The gand members are less than delighted when he accomplishes his mission and set out to get the tape back and eliminate him in the process.With the gang in hot pursuit he conceals the tape in the Black Moon ,a new experimental car with some distinctly high performance features .Unfortunately for him the car is stollen by Linda Hamilton for a hot car ring run by Robert Vaughn .
Jones need to retrieve the car and the tape -no easy task given that they are in a fortress like office tower AND the bad guys ,headed by Vin Rames ,together with a federal agent ,played splendidly by Bubba Smith are all after him ,and not for the purpose of selling him health insurance !
The story is not especially plausible but the vigorous direction from Harley Cokliss helps paper over the narrative cracke .Jones is -as ever-splendid and the rest of the cast are way better than the material
Good action scenes and a lively pace ensure you will have a good time watching this -although one scene in which Jones absorbs a brutal beating seemed a tad over the top to me .It just lacked a better script to elevate it a notch or two higher in the eighties thriller league
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Starring: Austin Stoker, Darwin Joston, See more
Director: John Carpenter
Encoding: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. This DVD will probably NOT be viewable in other countries. Read more about DVD formats.)
Format: Color, Widescreen, Dolby
Aspect Ratio(s): 2.35:1
Audio Encoding: Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Rated: Not for sale to persons under age 18.
Studio: Image Entertainment
DVD Release Date: November 9, 2004
Run Time: 91
DVD Features:
Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
Commentary by John Carpenter
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Director: Edward Zwick
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Format: Color, Closed-captioned, DTS Surround Sound, Widescreen, Dolby
Aspect Ratio(s): 1.85:1
Audio Encoding: DTS 5.1, Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Rated: Not for sale to persons under age 18.
Studio: Twentieth Century Fox
DVD Release Date: September 14, 2004
Run Time: 116
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Available subtitles: English, Spanish
Available Audio Tracks: English (DTS), English (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
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