Made before Tommy Lee Jones was a household name, but after Linda Hamilton had endured her first encounter against The Terminator, Black Moon Rising is a simplistic action flick of little consequence. Unmemorable and formulaic from start to finish, it is the kind of film you can watch without once requiring to shift your brain out of first gear. In fact, chances are your brain may not even make it out of neutral!
Super-thief Quint (Jones) steals an important disk. However, when the heat turns on he has to hide this stolen item, so he puts it in a racing car being towed across the American mid-west. His plan is to follow the racing car for a while and to retrieve the disk at a safer time. Seems like a good plan, until ace car thief Nina (Hamilton) shows up and steals the racing car for her boss Ryland (Robert Vaughn). Quint must get his disk back, but he must first get into Ryland's ultra-secure, high-tech lair where the racing car is being kept.
The film was written by John Carpenter (who directed Hallowe'en and The Thing, among others) but you'd be hard pushed to find any of his trademark flair here. This film's director, the little-known Harley Cokliss, strips the script of any novelty it may have had and presents the film in utterly routine fashion. There's an outrageous car stunt near the end which may encourage you to press the rewind button a couple of times, but beyond that Black Moon Rising fails to register a single memorable moment. One for Tommy Lee's completists only, I'm afraid.
Super-thief Quint (Jones) steals an important disk. However, when the heat turns on he has to hide this stolen item, so he puts it in a racing car being towed across the American mid-west. His plan is to follow the racing car for a while and to retrieve the disk at a safer time. Seems like a good plan, until ace car thief Nina (Hamilton) shows up and steals the racing car for her boss Ryland (Robert Vaughn). Quint must get his disk back, but he must first get into Ryland's ultra-secure, high-tech lair where the racing car is being kept.
The film was written by John Carpenter (who directed Hallowe'en and The Thing, among others) but you'd be hard pushed to find any of his trademark flair here. This film's director, the little-known Harley Cokliss, strips the script of any novelty it may have had and presents the film in utterly routine fashion. There's an outrageous car stunt near the end which may encourage you to press the rewind button a couple of times, but beyond that Black Moon Rising fails to register a single memorable moment. One for Tommy Lee's completists only, I'm afraid.