Within the Rock (1996 TV Movie)
1/10
Only 3 of 'Em Survive
4 April 2023
Warning: Spoilers
It must be noted that I'm watching 'Within the Rock' on short notice, and with my eyes hanging out of their head, so I'm unprepared and susceptible to its unprotected onslaught.

A one-eyed Wraith ghost seems in distress as it does its best to contain an escaped Terror Dog with a flame and seals it in a Hellraiser puzzle box, which miraculously orbits its captivity somehow?

Claire Danes and a G-man, working for an earthly organization, discuss battle tactics on a planet billions of light years away.

Meanwhile, on Planet Somewhere, a man wearing a wetsuit with a receding hairline and what's-her-name from 'Million Dollar Baby' have 95 days to work with before Earth explodes. It's not explained why, but they have to drill on Planet Somewhere in paintball shooting Woodchuck masks.

One minute she's on Earth, one second later, and what's-her-name is on Planet Somewhere and is the new fish with the wetsuit fella.

What they're looking for to prevent Earth from exploding, I have no idea?

Tin Tin from that Eric Draven movie and Tom Green play a video game with Power Gloves.

Is that Steve O?

Not making any sense, this one who looks like either Claire Danes, Hilary Swank, or Martika actually resembles Eddy Redmayne in a wig.

This bearded guy looks like either Peter Jackson or Gunnar Hansen.

I'll be damned - this actor was in 'Pulp Fiction' down in the basement with The Gimp.

This is the second movie in a row that I've watched where all they've got to do in outer space is drill for unknown sources and use TNT to blow their way to riches. How this is supposed to help planet Earth is beyond me.

Obviously inspired by that beautiful big butterfly from 'Alien Resurrection,' a Hellraiser beast, mosiaced on a wall, takes form and talk about setting a cat among the pigeons.

Eddy Redmayne, in a wig, reduces some GI Jane to tears over lost memories and dead parents.

Can we hurry up to the part where the Hellraiser beast starts picking everyone off?

I don't know what they're drilling for, and I'm sick of them discussing extended working hours.

Was that Rawhead Rex?

Can I make an observation? Why are these twits doing it the hard way, by drilling manually for hours, when earlier the GI Jane soldier used TNT to blast her way through platinum steel?

I think the movie was about spacemen drilling for oil on an away planet, and some alien was accidentally defrosted and on the loose?

Of course, your customary Burke character wants to bring the beast back with them alive, thus creating conflict with the rest of the crew and resulting in a brawl at the end, while the Hellraiser beast is easily slain with drill bits and fire extinguishers.

And there you have it: 'Within the Rock' is a total waste of an hour and thirty minutes.

Think of what else you could be doing with that time.

Life's too short to waste it on this so-called entertainment.

And entertained I wasn't.

One point is warranted because there is an alien in it.
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