Supernova (2000)

Remember when James Spader was post-skinny bulked up and pre-overweight? There was that brief period when this film was made. He stars as one of the crew on some kind of medical spaceship which is engaged in vague rescue operations. That's the problem with this film - most of the plot is unfocused and I have trouble figuring what it's about or what is the point. It has a troubled history - Walter Hill was the director but he's not credited. Angela Bassett also stars as the doctor. The elder member and captain is played by Robert Forster, who is engaged in writing up a thesis on old-time cartoons.    Lou Diamond Phillips is another astronaut whose main goal is seducing female members and having sex in outer space. Robin Tunney plays his latest conquest.


Eventually, the crew reach their destination and encounter a hostile enhanced human played by Peter Facinelli, who, in his previous human form, had been Bassett's abusive husband. As to be expected, not all the crew survive this mission. This was the dark side of space exploration - though not even exploration in this case, since this was a rescue mission gone wrong. This reminded be a bit of Event Horizon (97) but all the behind-the-scenes problems resulted in a less polished story - not good since Event Horizon was not very good either. There were rewrites and delays, and the film was released over a year later than originally planned.  BoG's Score: 5 out of 10