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A team of space scavengers discovers superior alien technology that threatens the balance of the known universe. Hotly pursued by a rival crew of intergalactic mercenaries, the Revelator crew must fight through the deepest reaches of space to locate and protect the life-altering device.
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I've never had the displeasure of seeing someone ruin a movie all by themselves. Granted, he had lots of help, but Scavengers could have been a better movie had Sean Patrick Flanery (playing bad guy Jekel) simply refused the part. His voice barely rises above a snarly whisper most of the time, and when you can understand what he's saying, you wish that you couldn't. I couldn't quite tell if it was a horrible script that couldn't be saved, or if he actually thought he was menacing. Point is, none of that matters because he sucked, and was totally annoying and unbelievable.
Scavengers is a science fiction film that would probably find a nice home on the SyFy network. The plot is about two bitter enemies chasing one another for the three parts of a "chaos" machine hidden across the universe. While we have some characters here that do their job fairly well (John Lee Ames, Jamie Strange and Louise Linton), the horrible special effects ruin the story and get in the way of making the movie something you can get into at all. Every time I'd start to settle in to a part of the film, something would come up to wreck it. Machine gun fire sounds from spacecraft? Yes, you have it here. Special Effects that make the Saturday Morning Cartoons look like Star Wars? Yes, it's here. This is NOT a so bad it's good movie. This movie has parts and pieces that actually work. There are a few scenes that work very well, but they are far and few between, and not worth spending money to see.
I would like to warn you as well that the end of this film has it set up for a sequel if they wanted to do one. I'd advise you to run and not walk away from this if it happened. Characters who have gone through the wringer throughout the film's running time are suddenly fresh and ready to roll off into space again just as the credits are about to roll. So it seems to make the whole ninety plus minutes of what you just watched a completely moot point. Could this be a prequel of sorts? Could it be the start of some sort of series? Please no. Spare us that. As I said before, this could have a life as a series on the SyFy Network. Other than that, it's doomed to frustrate viewers with its atrocious acting on the part of Flanery, and its wooden script.
This DVD is being put out by Image Entertainment UK, which is a new label from RLJ Entertainment. The release date is late January 2014 in the United Kingdom, and the United Kingdom will release selected titles from the US. Although this particular title seems to be a dud on arrival, I'm hoping for better luck on future releases. 4/10.
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