Space Truckers [Region 2] | ![Space Truckers [Region 2]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51S93RG9X6L._SL500_.jpg)
| Director: Stuart Gordon
Actors: Tim Loane, Ian Beattie, Olwen Fouere, Shane Rimmer, Charles Dance
Category: DVD
Buy New: $69.98
Rating:  43 reviews
Format: Pal
Language: German (Original Language)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 2
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 4040316725385
ASIN: B00004WN5M
Theatrical Release Date: April 1997
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 Equal to Tank Girl April 13, 2009
Paul A. Harris (Chi-Town)
This is another cult classic. The cast agrees. A combination swashbuckler,space pirate, trucker love story.
 Great, fun film March 20, 2009
S. Champ (MO, US)
What a film. The casting was solid, the sets were solid, the costuming was solid, the story was solid for its genre. The directing must've been solid -- the proof is in the pudding, as the adage would go.
This film watches like a great, fun flick, with a truly original character. It looks like the cast must've had fun, filming the work. The viewer most certainly has a great chance to really enjoy watching this film.
Main Stars are Dennis Hopper, Stephen Dorff, Charles Dance, Debbi Mazar October 23, 2008
Twilightjoan (Peck, ID USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It makes me crazy to see the stars listed for a movie or TV series are NOT the main characters. Amazon, apparently, has copied the actor list from www.imdb.com and so the main characters, who appear further on down the list, do not even appear after the title of the movie. A potential buyer of this DVD would be looking for the main characters not the bit players.
I have tried to move up the stars in a DVD's list of actors before but have been rejected. Sometimes, but not always, someone actually looks at what I am trying to do and fixes the problem. Example: On Tour of Duty, a female actress was in a few episodes of ONE season but she was the only name Amazon put for all 3 seasons instead of Terrence Knox, et al. Doesn't make sense. It was finally fixed.
By the way, I really like this movie and would recommend it to those who like sci-fi action movies with good actors (characters!).
Stuart Gordon's Star Wars September 26, 2008
Stanley Runk (Camp North Pines)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Space Truckers is a different kind of movie than we're used to seeing from Gordon. It's a little more lighthearted, comical, and slick looking. Plus it's PG-13, so the over the top gore isn't present.
But the movie is alot of fun. It's silly sci-fi nonsense that aims to be nothing more than a fun popcorn flick.
Dennis Hopper is a space trucker who gets screwed out of getting paid for his load by an evil pork company. He then takes on an unregistered and illegal load to transport to Earth. Little does he know that his cargo is a small army of indestructible killer robots designed by a mad scientist to enable a loon to secure his presidency. Along for this ride are a rookie space trucker played by Stephen Dorff and Hopper's "fiance" played by Debi Mazar. They're hijacked by pirates who unleash the robots. It also just so happens that the leader of the pirates is the mad scientist who created the robots. He's half machine, which leads to some rather funny scenes.
So, Hopper and company have to escape the pirates, stop the evil robots and get to Earth where Debi Mazar's mother is in the hospital. It's good, fun stuff that reminds me of films like The Ice Pirates and Flash Gordon. The film was shot entirely in Ireland, and I'm not sure what the budget for the movie was, but the it looks like they definitely made the most of the budget. Very slick and professional looking, almost as if it could have been made in Hollywood. Hopper is Hopper, what can you say? Dorff is passable, but nothing special, Mazar is also okay but nothing special. I certainly don't think she's as hot as you're supposed to believe she is. The always reliable Charles Dance plays the evil scientist/pirate leader/cyborg with the same sophisticated flair in which he usually plays villains.
I was fortunate enough to see this movie at a test screening with Stuart Gordon back in 1997 at the University of Wisconsin. Gordon did a little Q&A with the audience after the film. The movie went over quite well with the audience that night. It was a fun experience and one reason why this movie is particularly close to me.
Well worth it.
Hauling it in space. January 14, 2007
J. Currie
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Fans of Dennis Hopper should enjoy this funny movie about being an independant space trucker, and going against the flow like Dennis Hopper characters often do. In the process, he and two other like minded people he picks up on a space station, end up fighting space pirates and also fighting some serious killer robots to save Earth. I liked the fact that no matter how bad things seem to get for our heroic space truckers, they managed to keep the jokes comming, and your funny bone tickled. The budget restraints are evident in the space seens, but the various ship interiors were pulled off quite well in my opinion.
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