Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Stranded


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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 0% (Critics) / 17% (Audience)
Directed By: Roger Christian
Written By: Roger Christian and Christian Piers Betley
Starring: Christian Slater, Michael Therriault, Amy Matysio and Brendan Fehr
Studio: RLJ Entertainment

Synopsis:Four isolated astronauts on board a bio-dome space craft, experience a ghostly intercession after a meteor storm, leading to paranoia, fear and death. – (Source)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQaEb6gaoHI
The Good:
So let me think…was there anything good about this movie?
oh-hell-to-the-no
Guess not.

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The Bad:
The casting of this film is so odd. Its like Slater and Brendan Fehr agreed to star in a friend of their’s film featuring all of the director’s family members.
The effects were depressing, the acting was bad, no character made any sense (for example Slater’s character spends the bulk of the firs 20 minutes being a hard ass about following quarantine rules but still runs into a quarantined room without a second thought.
And whoever decided that giving the pivotal dual role to their tax accountant should have their brain examined.

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The Ugly
It is sad to see a once promising career like the one Christian Slater used to have end up like this. What happened? Did he have a really bad crack addiciton? Maybe he owed some Armenian mobsters a whole shitload of cash and taking horrible job after horrible job is the price he has to pay to keep them from breaking his legs. whatever the reason for what happened to him I am quite saddened by his current film career.

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Final Verdict: A complete waste of my time and the time of everyone involved with making it. I can forgive bad special effects and sub par acting in my low budget horror fare but I cannot forgive those things when the product put before me is so crushingly boring. I had to rewind this crapfest multiple times because I would find myself playing Candy Crush instead of watching the movie.
All copies of this dreck should be burned.

Grade: F

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