Matcollis This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Staci Frederick Blistering performances.

Wuchak In "Black Moon Rising" (1986) Tommy Lee Jones plays a professional thief hired by the FBI to apprehend a data tape to incriminate a questionable company. Oddly enough, once he gets the tape he's forced to hide it on a prototype supercar, which is stolen by a woman (Linda Hamilton) who works for a professional car-theft ring led by a character played by Robert Vaughn. Richard Jaeckel plays the inventor of the supercar and Bubba Smith an intimidating FBI official.While the film was written and produced by John Carpenter and features the stars noted above, the budget was limited, which is evident in a few areas. For instance, the supercar -- named Black Moon --looks rather cheesy, although I'm sure it looked neato futuristic in the mid-80s. Nevertheless the outlandish story keeps your attention, particularly the interesting caper in the third act, borrowing elements of other 80's films/shows like James Bond, "Beverly Hills Cop" (1984), Knight Rider and "Terminator" (1984). Hamilton is likable as always, but the feminine eye candy is limited to her and she's too thin for my tastes. Still, you can't go wrong with Linda.The film runs 100 minutes and was shot in Lancaster, Hollywood and Los Angeles, California.GRADE: B-

kapelusznik18 ****SPOILERS**** A slim trim & durable Tommy Lee Jones is ex-US government contractor Sam Quint who's given an assignment he can't refuse by top CIA/NAS agent Johnson, played by Big Bad Bubba Smith, to retrieve a computer disc the government needs in a corporate/mob conspiracy case. It's the disc that's needed to put big time tax evader and corporate criminal Marvin Ringer, Lee Ving, behind bars. Being an expert break in artist Quit get his hands on the computer disc but when things get hot, with Winger & his hoods bearing down on him, hides it in a parked car for safe-keeping. It turns out that the car named the "Black Moon" is an experimental model of a super automobile being tested for NASA to be the car of the future going at speeds of 300 MPH.Before Quint can retrieve the disc "Black Moon" is carjacked, with a number of other cars, from a parking lot by members of the Ed Ryland, Robert Vaughn, car theft ring leaving Quint high and dry and facing the mad as hell Johnson. It's Agent Johnson who give Quint three days to retrieve the disc as well as car or he can forget celebrating his 40th, Quint was 39 at the time, birthday! The film has Qunit soon hook up with Ryland's top car driver Nina, Linda Hamilton, who hijacked the "Black Moon" who wants to get out of the car stealing business. That's in Ryland activities, including contract murder, that can end up with her being either behind bars for life of murdered by his top hit-man & enforcer the creepy looking "Strangler Luis", Nick Cassavetes, if she ever turns evidence against him.*****SPOILERS**** Chased and brutally beaten up by Ringer and his gang Quint after, in pulling a gun he's been hiding under a car , dispatching most of them gets down to business in finding where the "Black Moon" is being stored. And with the help of the car's designer electronic expert Earl Windom played by the always youthful looking, it's hard to believe that at the time he's just five years away from collecting social security, Richard Jaeckel plans to break into the impregnable storage garage where the "Black Moon" is being kept and takes off with it as Nina does the driving! Tommy Lee Jones and Linda Hamilton make a great combo in the action scenes in the film but as lovers they fall flat on their faces. You never for once get the impression that both of them have any other feelings for each other then in getting revenge on their tormentors, Ringer & Ryland, and using each other to achieve that. But you can't overlook the action sequences in the movie that were top-notch and of course the near fatal beating Quint took from Ringer's hoods that he miraculously survived to live another day. That's when Quint was to turn the tables on Ringer, by giving him a 1st class work-over, at the end of the film.

Rodrigo Amaro Nothing new in this generic and almost lifeless picture who owns its good moments thankful to the charismatic Tommy Lee Jones, who plays the thief hired by the FBI to steal vital information about a corrupt company. It all complicates when he's followed by the company's security after stealing the info which was hidden in a supersonic new car, object of desire of another thief (Linda Hamilton) who works for another corrupt company, commanded by a powerful businessman (Robert Vaughn). The goal is to take the car and the info out of it, and escape the bad guys who are always on his way. Even having John Carpenter as a writer of this film, "Black Moon Rising" doesn't fly high in ambition. But it's more of a direction problem (Carpenter is not commanding this but it's unknown Harley Cokeliss who's behind this). It offers moderate action sequences that aren't vivid in the memory for too long - the car chases have their qualities while the fight scenes seem a little exaggerated with everyone fighting karate style instead of a more street level kind of fight, something in which we would believe more if seeing characters like those (robbers and security staff members) doing it. The only real exciting part was when TLJ crossed the two towers, a breathless scene that makes it all the while of going through dramatic conversations and some flirting between Hamilton and Jones, somewhat humored but created without interest for us in the audience. The story just wasn't important. Good for some snores in between.Why I liked it? Well, Mr. Jones was the man here. Always great and with an unique sense of humor, he makes of this a good entertainment with this good-hearted robber who even has time to teach young beginners in the field, as exemplified right in the first scene. Typical case of a movie where the actor carries the whole movie on his back and succeeds. And it was good to see Bubba Smith doing something outside of "Police Academy", here he plays the FBI agent who commands Jones mission. Oh the car! It was fun to watch, it's really fast and sparks some fire but it's no Batmobile or Kit the supercar.It was OK. Passable, destined only for those really interested in classic adventure flicks from the 1980's. 6/10

TBJCSKCNRRQTreviews Quint is a professional thief hired by the government to steal something they can't get legally. He does and gets away, but not without being spotted. Chased by a former "acquaintance", he hides the loot on KITT. Well, OK, not literally... still, it's a duller version of the Knight Rider car(well, the look and speed... there's no AI in this). This vehicle gets hijacked by Nina, who works for Ryland, and with 72 hours to retrieve what he was sent to get, our lead has to find a way to get into the facility(essentially a high tech chop shop, kinda boring). Perhaps the feisty young women is the key? The story is by John Carpenter, and considering that, and its cast, this could have been better. It's basically just... meh. We've seen it before. I got this as part of a 10 sci-fi flicks set. Don't watch this expecting it to really be part of that genre. It's a straight, very 80's action-thriller. We get a little clever dialog, Jones does what he can to make it funny(good, because what little lame comic relief this has doesn't work... and the atmosphere is far too serious), and the characters aren't too bad, if the villain is mighty flat. On the whole, however, it's unsurprising, in spite of a few unexpected turns of events, bits of tension, a chase, a shootout or a physical fight breaking up the long stretches of time where nothing too entertaining happens. It feels like it's more than the 90 minutes it is sans credits. The camera-work is fine. So's the acting(Bubba Smith isn't asked to do a lot, and as such, fares well enough). The theme tune is decent. There is some violence and disturbing content, a sex scene and brief nudity in this. I recommend this to people who love this kind of thing. Anyone else, you can find a better way to spend your time. 5/10