Good concept, poorly executed.

Brilliant and touching

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Oh my lord, I've just wasted an hour and half of my life on this? I thought that if it had Christian Slater starring it might actually be alright, how wrong I was. I can't think of a worse film I have seen Slater in. Predictable story, wooden acting (that's the second time this week I've said this about a film featuring Brendan Fehr - check out my other reviews), embarrassing effects (wait till you see the external moon base shots which make "Blake 7" look totally authentic). Directed and written by Roger Christian with additional writing credits for Christian Piers Betley this 2013 84 minute sci-fi film hurt me to watch. The story sees a lunar base called Ark hit and damaged by a meteor shower, Carbon Monoxide is slowly filling the station leading to paranoia and hallucinations. In addition spores on the meteor are carrying some weird alien virus, the person in charge of testing the spores accidentally cuts her finger and is infected by the spores leading to her getting pregnant and birthing an alien. The alien offspring bites a crewman producing an evil clone of the crewman. From here on in it's a survival sci-fi movie which doesn't bring thrills or spills but more moans and groans from the audience as they are let down turn after turn. As well as what I've mentioned already it was littered with obvious mistakes and plot holes - for example, it's announced that Carbon Monoxide is flooding into the ship but the computer read out says CO2 which is Carbon Dioxide - similarly the computer announces a storm approaching the moon but it doesn't actually have an atmosphere to have a storm on. Even as a fan of bad films this one rates low against my other reviews. Giving this 2 out of 10 seems too generous but I really didn't enjoy the film and wouldn't want my friends to suffer this pile of space cack.

After watching this movie I decided to take the initiative and open a support account for Christian Slater. The guy is a great actor but he is obviously in serious economic distress if he willingly decided to star in this joke of a sci-fi film. There isn't much to say about it other that it is below the standards of a high school play. I don't feel bad trashing it because the budget must have been someone's lunch money so I imagine that even if 2 people payed to watch in in the whole world it made some profit. And yes, the space suit helmets are painted motorcycle helmets and Slater IS talking to a book flashlight through the movie. It is THAT ridiculous.

First off, there is no argument to be made that this was anything other than a bad movie. It's hard not to mention the use of common book lights as communication devices or the blatant use of miniatures for all exterior shots, as many before me already have. I was somewhat surprised that Godzilla (or Space Godzilla) did not come to finish the destruction of the moonbase after the meteor storm. The interiors were oddly typical for a sci-fi film, which was somewhat out of place.No one in this movie deserved to survive - Sorry Christian. These people made such textbook awful decisions throughout the movie that it was impossible to root for any of them. I would not trust a single one of them to feed my dog while I was on vacation, much less the lot of them to man a zillion-dollar moonbase. For a room that was allegedly on lockdown, the med bay was accessed repeatedly, and NO ONE WOULD CLOSE THE DOOR, or even MONITOR IT. Have none of these folks ever seen a sci-fi movie? Also - and I've not seen anyone address this yet - why did they think it would be a good idea to access Bruce's logs for ideas to defeat the creature? I mean, how successful was he? And did not the faux Bruce seem a little lucid and well-groomed to be legitimate? That said, I really enjoyed it. It was a perfect subject for my regular Bad Movie Night with Friends, and it did not disappoint.

Having found this movie in a local secondhand store, I purchased the DVD, as the cover looked interesting enough, Christian Slater in a spacesuit where the glass of the face shield was broken, plus it was a Sci-Fi movie, so it had potential.And the keyword here was 'had'.This movie was bad on almost every account. The storyline was just ridiculous and ludicrous. It started out well enough, but when the pregnancy and the growth of the creature started to take place, it just went downhill fast, despite there being no gravity on the moon.The movie had a very b-movie from the mid 1980's feel to it, especially the lunar scenes, because the base looked like a badly constructed toy.As for the acting, well it was alright, nothing mind-boggling though. So don't expect anything in the league of academy award winning.Truth be told, this movie was so bad that I actually fell asleep and missed the last 15 minutes or so, I assume. Not that I am bothering to go back and find out what happened in those minutes, because the movie was just not worth it."Stranded" is a snoozefest and it is hard to find anything about it that makes it worth recommending to other viewers, unless, of course, you are a die-hard fan of someone on the cast list.