n.b. that while the "spoilers" box is checked, I promise not to tell you how it ends, but I will summarize the plot in some detail.
This movie had a premise like that of the show Earth 2 (which was somewhat cheesy, but had some definite highpoints), but did not live up to even that show's promise.
This film, and I use that term loosely, because if it was not made for TV it wouldn't even make the "straight to video" list, starts out with the "Earth is trashed" plot device, the ecosystem dying in some kind of standard issue post-apocalyptic haze of poisoned atmosphere and oceans.
Enter the mega corporation run by a standard-issue genre stereotype evil greedy autocrat. A teleportation device makes it possible to travel to a partially terraformed planet 20,000 light years away.
A small cast of caricatures is gathered to go down through the looking glass to this new planet, that shows promise of being a refuge for the richest elite of Earth to escape the product of their handiwork.
So far not so bad. (spoilers commence) Very shortly after the explorers arrive on the new planet, imaginatively named "Oxygen2" the suction begins in earnest. The interplanetary travelers are put upon by genetically mutated cave bears from Earth's prehistory (the explanation for their presence is thin and nonsensical) that commence to shred the explorers one by one.
The special effects are so cheesy as to be laughable, resembling a no-budget student film. The acting is little better. Over all it lacks what would otherwise be a saving grace for the cult film circuit, some "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" type kitch. Do yourself a favor and skip this unless you are really, really bored.
This movie had a premise like that of the show Earth 2 (which was somewhat cheesy, but had some definite highpoints), but did not live up to even that show's promise.
This film, and I use that term loosely, because if it was not made for TV it wouldn't even make the "straight to video" list, starts out with the "Earth is trashed" plot device, the ecosystem dying in some kind of standard issue post-apocalyptic haze of poisoned atmosphere and oceans.
Enter the mega corporation run by a standard-issue genre stereotype evil greedy autocrat. A teleportation device makes it possible to travel to a partially terraformed planet 20,000 light years away.
A small cast of caricatures is gathered to go down through the looking glass to this new planet, that shows promise of being a refuge for the richest elite of Earth to escape the product of their handiwork.
So far not so bad. (spoilers commence) Very shortly after the explorers arrive on the new planet, imaginatively named "Oxygen2" the suction begins in earnest. The interplanetary travelers are put upon by genetically mutated cave bears from Earth's prehistory (the explanation for their presence is thin and nonsensical) that commence to shred the explorers one by one.
The special effects are so cheesy as to be laughable, resembling a no-budget student film. The acting is little better. Over all it lacks what would otherwise be a saving grace for the cult film circuit, some "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" type kitch. Do yourself a favor and skip this unless you are really, really bored.