What the F did I just waste 92 minutes of my life watching? This was apparently a made for TV pilot that thankfully & rightfully didn't get picked up.
A professor decides he wants to explore inner earth, builds a ship, drops & dives it head first into an active erupting volcano & to the surprise of only him & the idiot who went along with him is killed upon impact with the exploding hot lava. His nephew then decides 10 years later to build another ship & follow in his uncle's footsteps to explore inner earth.
I was flabbergasted to see this was released in 1993 because based on the sets, costumes, creature effects, SFX, script, acting, props, plot, directing, production quality, & cinematography one would surely have thought it was made in 1962.
It's awful on all levels. It started out interesting with hopes of a good story being told but somewhere quickly into production, they obviously ran out of money FAST!
I'm left scratching my head on every level of this crapfest.
The best part that would have made this a good movie, made you want to watch it, & that they should have expanded upon came at the end of the movie when it's revealed that the underworld villain was actually the uncle who started the 1st expedition & was thought to have been killed. He falls into lava at the end & you see his hand rise up to reveal he's wearing the same ring his nephew (the new expedition leader) gave to him the day he/the villain/uncle left for his doomed expedition.
Stereotypical characters - stupid scared overzealous African American wanna be tough guy; hot chick rock climber with zero contribution to a science expedition other than to be the hot chick in the movie; ditzy Asian chick who contributed nothing to expedition, plot, or story; unconvincingly passing for straight & badly indicating machoness horn dog type guy; the
I'm sorry, I really can't even finish reviewing this! I refuse to waste any more time on this F-Fest!
A professor decides he wants to explore inner earth, builds a ship, drops & dives it head first into an active erupting volcano & to the surprise of only him & the idiot who went along with him is killed upon impact with the exploding hot lava. His nephew then decides 10 years later to build another ship & follow in his uncle's footsteps to explore inner earth.
I was flabbergasted to see this was released in 1993 because based on the sets, costumes, creature effects, SFX, script, acting, props, plot, directing, production quality, & cinematography one would surely have thought it was made in 1962.
It's awful on all levels. It started out interesting with hopes of a good story being told but somewhere quickly into production, they obviously ran out of money FAST!
I'm left scratching my head on every level of this crapfest.
The best part that would have made this a good movie, made you want to watch it, & that they should have expanded upon came at the end of the movie when it's revealed that the underworld villain was actually the uncle who started the 1st expedition & was thought to have been killed. He falls into lava at the end & you see his hand rise up to reveal he's wearing the same ring his nephew (the new expedition leader) gave to him the day he/the villain/uncle left for his doomed expedition.
Stereotypical characters - stupid scared overzealous African American wanna be tough guy; hot chick rock climber with zero contribution to a science expedition other than to be the hot chick in the movie; ditzy Asian chick who contributed nothing to expedition, plot, or story; unconvincingly passing for straight & badly indicating machoness horn dog type guy; the
I'm sorry, I really can't even finish reviewing this! I refuse to waste any more time on this F-Fest!