Let me preface...
I know this was a made for TV movie and, as such, one shouldn't have super high expectations. Though not all that original,the premise is a fun one, and has some potential to be tense and entertaining.
All I really wanted from this movie was Armageddon mixed with Alien. To it's credit, it tried (the tiniest bit) to toss in a few twists and ideas of it's own, but the plot just feels like a first draft that was written in a day then put on screen.
It's not the worst thing ever, but it certainly isn't good. The creature's design, though not awful, wasn't very interesting to me. Beyond that, whenever they tried to explain what it was or how it did what it did, it wasn't told very well and just didn't make any sense.
SPOILERS
So, the creature eats dead things. You with me so far? However, for some reason, I guess it will only eat dead things that it kills (the movie never says that) so the people on its original planet trapped it in a metal box and shot it into space with a warning/description about the creature written on its walls (the inside though).
This 1,000,000 year old warning is written in binary code that translates to perfect English by the way.
Obviously the monster is freed by the drill team that has come to redirect the moon the box is on from hitting the earth (but apperantly the moon formed around the box...I guess?) and starts picking off the crew one by one when it isn't getting knocked over or hit by things.
You obviously have the A hole character, only in it for the money, who tries to bail out and leave everyone for dead. However, at the climax (for some reason) he comes back to kill the remaining crew (why? I don't know...the movie doesn't care) and dies because he's an idiot.
Oh, and by the way, the monster is weak to drills. Guess this ancient civilization that could shoot a box INTO SPACE couldn't figure that out.
SPOILERS OVER
So, clearly I'm not a big fan of this movie. I love B movies, and monster movies. I'd just seen Peter Benchley's The Creature a few days earlier, and was very pleasantly surprised by it on all fronts so, just because Within The Rock is a TV movie, it shouldn't get a pass.
It's clear that the movie was made with as little time, money and effort as possible just to get a quick buck.
Even so, to its credit, the movie isn't too long and I was never super bored. Maybe with some friends late at night, you could get a few laughs out of it. Even for that, though, there are WAY More entertaining movies out there than this.
My recommendation, skip...
I know this was a made for TV movie and, as such, one shouldn't have super high expectations. Though not all that original,the premise is a fun one, and has some potential to be tense and entertaining.
All I really wanted from this movie was Armageddon mixed with Alien. To it's credit, it tried (the tiniest bit) to toss in a few twists and ideas of it's own, but the plot just feels like a first draft that was written in a day then put on screen.
It's not the worst thing ever, but it certainly isn't good. The creature's design, though not awful, wasn't very interesting to me. Beyond that, whenever they tried to explain what it was or how it did what it did, it wasn't told very well and just didn't make any sense.
SPOILERS
So, the creature eats dead things. You with me so far? However, for some reason, I guess it will only eat dead things that it kills (the movie never says that) so the people on its original planet trapped it in a metal box and shot it into space with a warning/description about the creature written on its walls (the inside though).
This 1,000,000 year old warning is written in binary code that translates to perfect English by the way.
Obviously the monster is freed by the drill team that has come to redirect the moon the box is on from hitting the earth (but apperantly the moon formed around the box...I guess?) and starts picking off the crew one by one when it isn't getting knocked over or hit by things.
You obviously have the A hole character, only in it for the money, who tries to bail out and leave everyone for dead. However, at the climax (for some reason) he comes back to kill the remaining crew (why? I don't know...the movie doesn't care) and dies because he's an idiot.
Oh, and by the way, the monster is weak to drills. Guess this ancient civilization that could shoot a box INTO SPACE couldn't figure that out.
SPOILERS OVER
So, clearly I'm not a big fan of this movie. I love B movies, and monster movies. I'd just seen Peter Benchley's The Creature a few days earlier, and was very pleasantly surprised by it on all fronts so, just because Within The Rock is a TV movie, it shouldn't get a pass.
It's clear that the movie was made with as little time, money and effort as possible just to get a quick buck.
Even so, to its credit, the movie isn't too long and I was never super bored. Maybe with some friends late at night, you could get a few laughs out of it. Even for that, though, there are WAY More entertaining movies out there than this.
My recommendation, skip...