User Reviews

One night hanging out at my friend's frat house, some brothers decided to watch the best and the worst of genres. This particular film came up as the worst Sci-Fi film. How that rating is too true.

I've only seen it once. If I remember correctly, there are several subplots, one of which is a cheap 70s-style porn scene, that do nothing to help with the "story" or "plot" (not that I could really freakin' figure out if there was one at all).

It's said that the entire earth is destroyed, but from the looks of the film...it's just North America.

They land in a different planet that has mutant creatures vaguely based off of crabs, chicken, and Tuscan raiders.

When they come across the crab, there is just slow motion shooting until one brave soul decides to shoot the "soft underbelly" of a crab. (It is to be noted that the crab is red, implying the crab as already been boiled...so it shouldn't be alive anyway). After the 3-5 minutes shooting scene, it is then when the characters decide to use grenades and other explosives. Facepalm indeed.

I don't know if I was laughing too hard to remember, but I don't understand the story at all. I was in a room with those who were well- versed in Sci-Fi films and shows and they were pointing out clichés and vague similarities (Tuscan raiders).

If you want a good movie, DO NOT WATCH THIS. However, if you're stoned, drunk, and/or looking to laugh at how horrible this movie is then please enjoy this lovely piece of work (if much work was put into it).

This movie is amazing! Amazing it was even made that is. Recon 2023 is third in the Recon saga, which of course means it's three times as bad as the first.

Although it's obvious the production team worked very hard on this movie, it's just as obvious that, once again for a third time, they failed utterly. It's like watching a retarded kid vigorously trying to dig a hole with a toothpick. It's funny and even a little endearing, but also pretty sad.

Unfortunately for those of us with half a brain, these movies fail on every conceivable level. The plot (if there is one) makes no sense, the humor is juvenile and stupid, the special effects aren't very special, none of the characters really seem to understand what they're saying, and there really isn't much "recon" going on in a movie titled "Recon." These movies are a sad excuse to have people dress up like soldiers, shoot guns, and shout a lot. Not to mention random gratuitous sex and nudity, which isn't necessarily a bad thing but is stale and tasteless here. Oh and speaking of the aforementioned guns, most of the prop guns used (including by the aliens) are of the 20th-century variety, most from the cold war period. One would think that there would be some improvements to the weaponry in a humanity capable of interstellar flight.

This movie blatantly copies almost every action, sci-fi, horror, and cheesy romance film ever made, chopped up into little pieces and served to us like a smoothie. It's not even a "it's so bad it's funny" kind of movie. It's like if Uwe Boll and Michael Bay got drunk together one night and hysterically wrote the script, only to leave it at the hotel bar for the barkeeper-who's-saving-for-film-school to find it and say "wow this is pure genius!" Don't waste your money on this one, watch it on Netflix after exhausting all other options, or pirate it off the internet. But for the sake of humankind, don't let these people have any more money to make more movies.

I just pulled this number off the Netflix queue for some light late-night action. Instead, I got a brainlock.

First came the beginning set up, then came the crash to a planet. . .and then evidently, someone said something to upset a Food Service worker, because an overdose of psychiatric drugs in the Koolaid is the only explanation for the following hour and a half I saw.

I give this a 7 ,not because it was a Bomb, but because it failed to make sense. And it failed--No- REFUSED to make sense in a spectacularly engaging way.

I kid you not-- this movie is a nonstop sequence of lurid cheapo-sets, sophomoric humor, an absolutely obscure and bizarre war plot interspersed with some pretty good creature effects, battle scenes, spaceship crashes, adrenaline-pumped cyborgs, an alien pyramid, a leatherclad temptress who is the President of Earth. . .and the best yet: a 70's Blaxploitation flashback!!!

When the movie ended, a lot of people were dead. Some deserved it because the Plot demanded it. Other were dead because they were too corny to stay alive. Others were dead because they probably realized that this movie was the end of their professional careers. And one was dead because of a mutant chicken.

The one character who I am NOT sure is dead is the President of Earth.

And P.S. This movie is NOT for the kids, unless you want to spend the rest of the night explaining a couple of frankly adult scenes. And if your teenager is watching this. . .maybe you'd be better off NOT KNOWING that your teenager was watching this so as to give yourself Plausible Deniability when being interviewed by Child Protective Services.

Oh. . .one character is killed at least twice, yet still appears at the end of the movie to be killed one last time.

I even think I saw a Ma'har.

Oh. . .it died too.

Plot Spoiler? This Movie had a Plot? As in a Progressive Story line? Hah!

Man. . .that Koolaid must have been GOOOOD!

Watch at your own risk.