The Sender (1998)

User Rating:

3.7/10   

Director:

Richard Pepin

Writers:

Nathan Long (writer)
Richard Preston Jr. (writer)

Release Date:

19 February 1999 (South Africa)

Genre:

Action | Sci-Fi

Plot:

In 1965, an American fighter squadron encountered a spaceship while flying over the Bermuda Triangle...

Plot Keywords:

Independent Film

Cast

Michael Madsen	...	Dallas Grayson
R. Lee Ermey	...	Colonel Rosewater
Robert Vaughn	...	Ron Fairfax
Dyan Cannon	...	Gina Fairfax
Steven Williams	...	Lockwood
Shelli Lether	...	Angel
Brian Bloom	...	Jack Grayson
Josh Clark	...	Barry Stoop
Erica Everage	...	Lisa Grayson
Carlos Lauchu	...	Lab Technican
Arminae Austen	...	Castille
Francis Fallon	...	Nick
Rance Howard	...	Max
Richard Kuhlman	...	Sergeant York
Ramsey Krull	...	Young Dallas

MPAA:

Rated R for violence.

Runtime:

Brazil:98 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

UK:15 | Finland:K-18 | Germany:16 | Portugal:M/12 (video premiere) | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Trona Pinnacles - 300 S. Richmond Road, Ridgecrest, California, USA

Goofs:

Continuity: During the desert chase Dallas and Angel are pursued by a helicopter. They stop the car leaving both doors wide open and run across the desert. When the helicopter flies over during the next scene - the driver side door is closed on the car.

What a waste of time

I can't remember why I started watching this movie, but some where during it I lost the will to live! It may have been during the appalling car chase sequences, you have to watch it to see just how bad they are. Can someone tell Hollywood that a Porche 911 will be way faster than a GMC truck on a country road, on any road. It may have been the terrible special effects, even for a low budget movie they were poor, leftovers from the 1970's possibly. The dialogue was trite, the story line infantile, face it there's good sci-fi and not so good sci-fi but this is bargain basement sci-fi. The support cast, Steven Williams was totally unconvincing, R. Lee Ermey was hamming it up with abandon, Dyan Cannon was on auto pilot, of the support Robert Vaughn was the best but then he was pretty much playing Robert Vaughn. Of the leads Shelli Lether looked to be an eye candy distraction and little else and Michael Madsen most of the time looked embarrassed, as he delivered his dialogue with a look of a man who's agent had signed him up for this. All in all, I saw it for free on a satellite movie channel and felt cheated.