ORBzine Movie Reviews June 1999

Rocketeer Bill Pullman [a plug-and-play square-jawed hero type] who stumbles across a rocket-pack built by Howard Hughes and stolen by the villains. Pullman decides to use it for heroics, and becomes known as the Rocketeer. The high points of this predictable Disney film? It lets Labyrinth babe Jennifer Connelly display her incredible cleavage. Timothy Dalton took a break from James Bond to play a Hollywood star-cum- Nazi agent loosely based on Errol Flynn. His sidekick is a disfigured giant straight out of Dick Tracy. Paul Sorvino [father of the babelicious Mira Sorvino ] plays the local gangster boss - as he did in Goodfellas, among others. Search This Site

Genesis II This is Gene Rodenberry's 1970s attempt to revive his career after Star Trek had faded from the common memory. Alex Cord, best known as Archangel in Airwolf is head of a NASA project to perfect cryogenics for deep-space exploration. There is an accident, and he is awoken centuries later ... Buck Rogers anyone? Like Sloth in Seven he awakes almost dead, and is brought round by a beautiful woman who shags him back to life. Angered by the puritanical censors of the 1960s who refused to let women on Trek show their navels, Rodenberry had the mutant woman display TWO navels! The hero is in the hands of Pax - a bunch of touchy-feely pacifists who make the Federation look like bloodthirsty warmongers. Ugh! The series to follow this pilot episode was never shot, but there was a second pilot made - Earth II - with John Saxon in Cord's role, and guest-starring Diana Muldar [veteran of 2 Star Trek Series, TOS and TNG]. And no, they did not get taken up second time round either. Search This Site

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