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...even if there’s a gap between the film’s big ambitions and the budget, there’s more than enough here to sustain interest...

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The plot unravels in unwieldy dollops, and, despite some adequate special effects (for the time), the whole thing is really a bit of a bore.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 15, 2019

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Over-plotted, cliché-ridden and highly derivative, this mining mess certainly benefits from Emmerich's talent for getting every dollar on screen, and both the effects and production values belie its origins.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 15, 2019

The film looks nice but unoriginal (blue light, dry ice, flashing instrument panels); the model work is okay but laboured; the acting is stunningly mediocre.

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Boring sci-fi stuff.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jul 26, 2002

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MOON 44: Roland Emmerich’s Science Fiction Without Any Disasters

Odys Korczyński

13 August 2024

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Before Roland Emmerich directed his first hit, Universal Soldier, and eventually shifted to blockbuster disaster films, he began with themes of parapsychology and typical space settings. He painstakingly forged his own style before ultimately being consumed by commercialism. Moon 44 is an unjustly forgotten, yet atmospheric, well-executed, and memorable homage by Emmerich to Ridley Scott ‘s Alien and Blade Runner. The director borrowed the oppressive atmosphere of the space station from those films, placing mostly down-and-out people there, forcing them to find the strength to avoid descending into madness. As a result, the film gains an interesting humanistic dimension, even though it is a simple story about a battle in space. Moreover, it is clear that the film was not expensive, but it still strongly carries the stylistic scent of the 1980s, which, from today’s perspective, is an advantage. Retro-futurism attracts more mature viewers to science fiction, though it is unfortunate that this attraction still doesn’t extend to Moon 44.

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Michael Paré, who plays the lead role, is a wasted talent in science fiction cinema. He appeared too late, after the major roles had already been cast, including by Ridley Scott. Roland Emmerich infused him with elements of Rick Deckard, Roy Batty, Buckaroo Banzai, and perhaps even Ellen Ripley, only with physical cojones. However, he didn’t guide him effectively through the nuances of being tough, but cleverly made him accessible to the audience. That’s why it can sometimes be amusing to watch the actor in scenes where he pilots a combat helicopter and a spaceship. He is accompanied by actors known to fans of broad science fiction, though not its stars. B movies in fantasy and sci-fi sometimes meant something very valuable, without which the genre cannot do, so it is a pleasure to watch in Moon 44, for example, Brian Thompson, Dean Devlin, who later found a permanent place in Emmerich’s productions, and Malcolm McDowell – the most well-known and accomplished of them all, although I would never call him a blockbuster star. There’s even a woman in the film, which didn’t happen too often in this type of movie, and she doesn’t play just a subordinate role. I know Ridley Scott tried to break the male monopoly on science fiction cinema and storytelling with the character of Ellen Ripley, but on a global scale, that didn’t succeed. The character of Terry Morgan, however, is a clear counterbalance to the typical troglodyte examples of heroes, and she has a more important role in the plot than, for example, Major Lee, played by McDowell, who takes up much less screen time. That character, however, is the least successful in the production. He lingers in the shadows, and as a result, loses his personality. From the beginning, it is clear that he is the villain, but his henchman, Sergeant Sykes, fits that role better.

The film’s plot is simple but not simplistic. In the mining colony of Moon 44, managed by one of the major corporations, a group of prisoners, among whom is an undercover agent, is placed. His task is to solve the mystery of the disappearing resource shuttles. He has many personal problems, and the prisoners surrounding him do not make his job any easier. He fights on several fronts like a tragic hero, protecting the remnants of himself, the weaker ones in the colony, and his mission. And you almost wish he would remain a tragic figure until the end, like Ellen Ripley ultimately does in Alien 3 by David Fincher. You wish, at least I do, that those tight, damp, steam-filled corridors full of sinister shadows would be filled with more than just people, and if they are, that they would be scarier. It occurred to me that the atmosphere of mystery, which Emmerich undoubtedly managed to build, was somehow lost along the way in favor of a simple criminal plot that could have been written by a moderately literate teenager. Nevertheless, Moon 44 still holds up stylistically, all the way to the very retro depiction of the final battle with the cruiser attacking the station. The visuals are obviously cheap, but not amateurish, and that’s a difference. The director effectively masked any visual shortcomings with the moon’s dark, shadowy scenery. Finally, in Emmerich’s film, the music serves its proper function – it accentuates the action without dominating it. The editing skillfully combines different rhythms and emotions. The viewer does not get lost in the plot due to a lack of logic. And that is really interesting for an Emmerich film. The world of the film is simple, but coherent. Above all, there is no global catastrophe or much of the earthly world.

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As usual, I wouldn’t recommend this production to you if it weren’t available online. It may not be easy to find, but a little effort could greatly enrich any fan of Alien with an interesting film experience and the opportunity to realize, probably once again, how much Ridley Scott influenced the shape of science fiction at the turn of the century. And he still does, no matter what you think of Prometheus. So, if you’re waiting for a final twist in Moon 44, you won’t get one. You might also be disappointed by the true identity of the resource shuttle thief, but the last shot is truly great. The protagonist remains so at odds with the world that you almost want to see him in another space adventure.

Odys Korczyński

For years he has been passionate about computer games, in particular RPG productions, film, medicine, religious studies, psychoanalysis, artificial intelligence, physics, bioethics, as well as audiovisual media. He considers the story of a film to be a means and a pretext to talk about human culture in general, whose cinematography is one of many splinters.

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01 Jan 1990

Many movie-makers don't really know what to do with science fiction, tending just to make the types of movies they are familiar with, but give them an outer space setting. Thus Star Wars, swashbuckler in space, Alien, a horror movie in space, Outland, a Western in space, and so on.

This trend reaches its bitter end in Moon 44, which manages to be an in-space version of those separate, mutually exclusive genres, the prison picture and the fighter pilot movie. In the future world of Moon 44, mining companies run the universe and there are various wars going on between them. Some unscrupulous capitalists send Shakespeare-reading unshaven hunk cop Pare to Moon 44 - we never find out what it is the 44th moon of, and the know-nothing script refers to it as a planet, which is a mistake any 12-year-old would be ashamed of - to find out who is stealing expensive mining equipment.

The colony is run by a haggard Malcolm McDowell and defended by a cadre of rough, tough fighter jocks. The problem is that all the pilots have been killed and so they are being replaced by "volunteers" from the prisons of Earth. Half the film, then, is prison cliches, with the brutalised sensitive lad getting back at the thug who raped him in the showers and then hanging himself in his cell, and the rest is air force cliches, with pilots crashing copters into each other and blasting robot invaders from a rival corporation, and Pare just broods.

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  • 60 The A.V. Club Ignatiy Vishnevetsky The A.V. Club Ignatiy Vishnevetsky Generic but enjoyable with some nifty low-budget effects work.
  • 40 Empire Kim Newman Empire Kim Newman The plot unravels in unwieldy dollops, and, despite some adequate special effects (for the time), the whole thing is really a bit of a bore.
  • 40 Time Out London Time Out London The film looks nice but unoriginal (blue light, dry ice, flashing instrument panels); the model work is okay but laboured; the acting is stunningly mediocre.
  • 25 TV Guide Magazine TV Guide Magazine It's eye-filling, to say the least, but there's not much tension or sense of danger.
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Moon 44 (1990) movie review

Ahh, I remember the days of practical models and effects fondly. There’s an air of realism to seeing an actual scale model travelling towards a planet. It creates a very tangible feel to all aspects of the film, and even helps to combat any budget issues that would have otherwise appeared on screen.

And let’s face it, if you compare Moon 44 with fellow 1990 sci-fi release Total Recall , there are clearly vast budget differences between the two. It’s a far cry from Roland Emmerich’s later film efforts. At least here he’s only destroyed Earth from afar. Well, its natural resources anyway.

The year 2038. Resources have run out on Earth. This has led the conglomerates to head off into space and mine the stars. After standard corporate rivalries lead to them attacking one another and valuable trained pilots are wiped out, some corporations are forced to use convicts to bolster their workforce. These convicts fly helicopters on the asteroids and moons being mined, while back at base they are directed and guided by a young tech nerd apiece.

Michael Pare is Felix Stone. He’s asked to go undercover on the titular Moon 44 to find out why automated mining tools are going missing. He’s a smoking, wisecracking son of a gun who doesn’t know the meaning of the word “undercover”. Right from the off he seems intent on letting people know who he is and why he’s there.

The mining facility is run by Malcolm McDowell’s Major Lee, and his very angry and incredibly shouty second in command Sergeant Sykes (Leon Rippy). They are the first line of suspicion and, let’s face it, the script doesn’t have anywhere near enough depth for it to be anybody else. Meanwhile genre favourite Brian Thompson offers a bit of tension as an angry convict, and Lisa Eichhorn is the obligatory female face. Don’t expect character development for her or, indeed, anybody else. There’s a weird scene where one of the young tech guys is either beaten up or raped in the showers. This would have had far more impact if they had developed the characters involved in that exchange more. As it is, it seems like a random inclusion that adds little to the final product.

Stephen Geoffreys, possibly best known for his role as Ed in the original Fright Night , plays a very similar character here called Cookie. Thankfully he doesn’t have much to do or say. If he did, there would be a very real risk of something being thrown at the television. Whether that’s his actual voice or it’s just his “screen voice”, the fact is it grates horribly. The sooner somebody else has opportunity to talk, the better.

All this is fine if it was either exciting, compelling, different, or a combination of all three. It happens to be none of them. The only redeeming factor is that they use practical models. All of those sequences look the part. Unfortunately it’s let down by bad acting and a script that doesn’t know what its’ trying to achieve.

The worst part? It makes his other films, such as the horrendous 2012 look like they’re almost worth watching. Trust me. They’re not. They simply prove that throwing money at a project can’t make up for a poor script. Although, ironically, Independence Day doesn’t quite fall into the same trap.

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Moon 44 is a 1990 English-language German science fiction action film from Centropolis Film Productions, directed by Roland Emmerich and starring Michael Paré and Lisa Eichhorn alongside Brian Thompson and Malcolm McDowell. The film is set on a futuristic mining site on an unspecific moon, where convicts and teenage technicians are partnered. An undercover agent (Paré) must discover what has happened to missing corporate shuttles.

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Year 2038: The mineral resources of the earth are drained, in space there are fights for the last deposits on other planets and satellites. This is the situation when one of the bigger mining corporations has lost all but one mineral moons and many of their fully automatic mining robots are disappearing on their flight home. Since nobody else wants the job, they send prisoners to defend the mining station. Among them undercover agent Stone, who shall clear the whereabouts of the expensive robots. In an atmosphere of corruption, fear and hatred he gets between the fronts of rivaling groups.

Michael Paré Lisa Eichhorn Dean Devlin Brian Thompson Malcolm McDowell Leon Rippy Jochen Nickel Mehmet Yilmaz John March Drew Lucas David Williamson Calvin Burke Andy Howarth William Begatie Bernhard Bolden Michael Antoniou Bernhard Nickel Thomas Nickel Frederic Mills Milton Jones Stephen Geoffreys Roscoe Lee Browne Charles Haigh Renée Estevez

Director Director

Roland Emmerich

Producers Producers

Ute Emmerich Dean Heyde Roland Emmerich Jakob Claussen

Writers Writers

Oliver Eberle Dean Heyde

Story Story

Dean Heyde Oliver Eberle P.J. Mitchell Roland Emmerich

Casting Casting

Editor editor.

Tomy Wigand

Cinematography Cinematography

Karl Walter Lindenlaub

Executive Producer Exec. Producer

Michael Scordino

Lighting Lighting

Honorat Stangl

Additional Photography Add. Photography

Thomas Ch. Weber

Production Design Production Design

Oliver Scholl

Set Decoration Set Decoration

Special effects special effects.

Volker Engel Joachim Grüninger Theo Nischwitz

Visual Effects Visual Effects

Volker Engel Bernd Kammermeier

Composer Composer

Joel Goldsmith

Sound Sound

Hubert Bartholomae Jens Hasler

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Robin Schannewitzki Ha Nguyen

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Delia Mündelein Suleika Ulmen

Overseas FilmGroup Centropolis Film Productions

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15 feb 1990, 11 jul 2024, releases by country.

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Ben Hibburd ☘🏀

Review by Ben Hibburd ☘🏀 ★

I fell asleep four times in an hour trying to watch this borefest from Roland Emmerich. The film sees something about corporations needing to fight over resources on the Moon. One faction has to use prisoners as pilots cause they've run out of pilots, I dunno. The characters were so bland they all looked like the same person, kinda like all the bald dudes in "Alien 3" where you can't tell who's who. The story was generic, poorly plotted and downright boring. For a Sci-Fi story there's a distinct lack of imagination. The only thing that was somewhat interesting was the blue collar setting, I'm a sucker for films like "Alien", "Outland" etc. I like my interstellar sci-fi to look as though it's being held together with duct tape. To the films credit they do a good job with the production design, it's just a shame every other element is shite.

deMicha

Review by deMicha ★★★

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Im Jahr 2038 gibt es auf der Erde keine Rohstoffvorkommen mehr. Tief im All fand man Monde mit Rohstoffen. Auf Moon 44 stimmt etwas nicht, deshalb wird der Agent Felix Stone undercover eingeschleust.

S.F. Action von 1990 aus Deutschland in dem Roland Emmerich Regie geführt hat. Mit Michael Paré, Brian Thompson, Malcolm McDowell und Leon Rippy. Zuerst hat es mich ein wenig gewundert, das den Film hier wohl nicht so viele kennen. Halt ein frühwerk von Emmerich, und nicht grade die besten Bewertungen. Mit geringem Budget hat er hier was ordentliches geschaffen, was man sich auch anschauen kann. Man muß aber mit den richtigen Erwartungen dran gehen, deutsche S.F. mit wenig Budget.…

I.V.

Review by I.V. ★★★ 1

Emmerich's final calling card film, starring Michael Paré as a kind of zero-calorie, diet Robert Mitchum. Probably plays better today than it did in 1990; the resourceful production design and effects suggest a genuine affection for genre movie craft, and the hard sci-fi premise -- something about corporate warfare, automated shuttles, and prisoners who are offered space mining jobs in exchange for early release -- seems downright geeky in an era when even Star Trek movies are mostly about explosions.

Old Man Angelo

Review by Old Man Angelo ★★★½ 2

This is Roland Emmerichs American debut I think? True to his form it’s a hodge podge of very obvious influences, from Outland, to Top Gun, War Games and even Suicide Squad which was probably having its most mainstream run in comics at the time.

All of these elements come together in an interesting and low budget flick. The production design here is absolutely superb. The mining colony looks as richly detailed as the Nostromo and somehow even more cluttered. This was part of that peak era for sci fi where all the elements come together really well, and what we see on screen feels extremely tangible and retrotech as opposed to today, which between shooting digital, and modern technology influencing…

Shakemeister

Review by Shakemeister ★½

February List Roland Emmerich Ranked

Malcolm acted his Macdowellussy off but this movie is so fucking boring

xtini

Review by xtini ★★½

This one really isn't worth writing a review about. It's just a sci-fi, mediocre B movie with decent atmosphere and set pieces. At least it's easier to stomach than most Roland Emmerich flicks, but that isn't saying too much.

Although, I did like Stargate . Sue me.

Forgettable and lackluster, although not inherently unwatchable.

Filipe Furtado

Review by Filipe Furtado ★★★

Roland Emmerich last German film shot in English with an international cast lead by Michael Paré and Malcolm McDowell. It is a weird mix of the dumbest corporate espionage whodunit with blue collar sci-fi about prisoners doing hard labor in some moon that wouldn't be out of place in some 70s hard sci-fi paperback. It often plays like someone made a Hawks aviation movie in space (with some macho grandstanding and corporate paranoia lift from Aliens) only the writing couldn't be dumber if it tried. Emmerich directs it for all its worth. As piece of low budget ingenuity Moon 44 is impressive enough, it is easy to get how this worked as a Hollywood calling card. The production design in…

robyn

Review by robyn ★★½ 1

rude imo that stephen geoffreys doesn’t have a credit in this film on here!! someone who remembers their tmdb log in please add him justice for evil ed!!!!

Onno

Review by Onno ★★★

Wenn Knackies als Piloten auf einem Mond Rohstoffe verteidigen sollen und sich das unentwegt nach Camerons ALIENS anfühl, dann hat da wohl Hollywood-Copycat Roland Emmerich seine Finger im Spiel. Sein Sprungbrett nach Hollywood atmet mit jeder Pore die Luft des Sci-Fi-Klassikers und sorgt dabei für viele atmosphärische Bilder. Technisch hat es der Spielbergle auf jeden Fall drauf und abermals konnte er einen internationalen Cast ins Schwabenland locken. So macht MOON 44 mit seinen Bildern und Sprüchen schon wirklich Spaß. Nur erzählerisch offenbart Emmerichs letztes Werk in Deutschland einmal mehr bekannte Schwächen in Sachen Dramaturgie.

~findlay

Review by ~findlay ★★★

Probably the biggest missed opportunity of the 90's.

Lighting, art direction, music, charm ALL SO GOOD. total brutalist industrial sets.

Script and story are actually f u c k i n g dreadful.

OH WELL DEAN DEVLIN IS A MAIN CHARACTER SO I WAS HAPPY

Al’s from the Crypt ⚰️

Review by Al’s from the Crypt ⚰️ ★ 1

Fuck you, Roland Emmerich.

Prinkips

Review by Prinkips ★★★★

What a nice surprise this was! I'd say it's a great family movie but, even though some of the protagonists are teenagers, it's probably a bit too dark for kids. But what stood out to me, was how homoerotic it was. Stone and O'Neal's relationship was basically an enemies-to-lovers story and I EAT IT UP. It really helps that Emmerich knows how to cast men. Michael Parè was incredibly gorgeous and sexy. Maybe I've given up too early on Emmerich's filmography.

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    Rated 4.5/5 Stars • Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 03/28/23 Full Review Audience Member this movie is like if bladerunner was on the moon and about flying. i liked the ugly set design.

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    Moon 44 is a 1990 English-language German science fiction action film from Centropolis Film Productions, directed by Roland Emmerich and starring Michael Par ... In a contemporary review, Variety referred to the film as "boring, uneventful" and "feeble sci-fi effort from West Germany". [5]

  3. Moon 44 (1990)

    5/10. Easy to Watch Sci-Fi Pulp. Tweetienator 15 February 2022. Moon 44 is for sure not a masterpiece but solid and fun space action of the B-movie category: some mercenaries defending a mine somewhere lost in space. Easy to consume pulp science fiction well produced on a small budget.

  4. Moon 44 (1990)

    Moon 44: Directed by Roland Emmerich. With Michael Paré, Lisa Eichhorn, Dean Devlin, Brian Thompson. An unconventional corporate agent is given the task of shaping a group of violent criminals and technical wizards into a helicopter defense force assigned to protect a mining station on a remote moon.

  5. Moon 44

    Moon 44 Reviews. ...even if there's a gap between the film's big ambitions and the budget, there's more than enough here to sustain interest... Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 23 ...

  6. MOON 44: Roland Emmerich's Science Fiction Without Any Disasters

    Moon 44 is an unjustly forgotten, yet atmospheric, well-executed, and memorable homage by Emmerich to Ridley Scott's Alien and Blade Runner. The director borrowed the oppressive atmosphere of the space station from those films, placing mostly down-and-out people there, forcing them to find the strength to avoid descending into madness.

  7. Moon 44 Review

    Moon 44 Review. The year is 2038, the Earth is all squeezed out of mineral resources. Moon 44 is one of the few sources remaining and the mining station is defended by prison recruits. Enter ...

  8. Moon 44 (1990)

    Year 2038: The mineral resources of the earth are drained, in space there are fights for the last deposits on other planets and satellites. This is the situation when one of the bigger mining corporations has lost all but one mineral moons and many of their fully automatic mining robots are disappearing on their flight home. Since nobody else wants the job, they send prisoners to defend the ...

  9. ‎Reviews of Moon 44

    Reviews of Moon 44. Letterboxd — Your life in film. Username. Password. Remember me ... Moon 44 doesn't offer much in terms of entertainment value and is another prime… ★ Added by DarthBrentius. True science fiction Outer Space movie are HARD to write let alone film. All the action takes place in a star ship, space station or enclosed ...

  10. Moon 44 (1990)

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  11. Moon 44 1989, directed by Roland Emmerich

    The film looks nice but unoriginal (blue light, dry ice, flashing instrument panels); the model work is okay but laboured; the acting is stunningly mediocre. Release Details Duration: 99 mins

  12. Moon 44 (1990) movie review

    Although, ironically, Independence Day doesn't quite fall into the same trap. REVIEW OVERVIEW. Moon 44 (1990) SUMMARY. This movie lacks oxygen. 2. OVERALL SCORE. Ahh, I remember the days of practical models and effects fondly. There's an air of realism to seeing an actual scale model travelling towards a planet.

  13. Moon 44

    Check out the exclusive TV Guide movie review and see our movie rating for Moon 44. X. Join or Sign In. ... Moon 44 Reviews. 39 Metascore; 1990; 1 hr 35 mins Science, Action & Adventure, Science ...

  14. Moon 44 (1990)

    Description by Wikipedia. Moon 44 is a 1990 English-language German science fiction action film from Centropolis Film Productions, directed by Roland Emmerich and starring Michael Paré and Lisa Eichhorn alongside Brian Thompson and Malcolm McDowell. The film is set on a futuristic mining site on an unspecific moon, where convicts and teenage ...

  15. Moon 44 (1990)

    Visit the movie page for 'Moon 44' on Moviefone. Discover the movie's synopsis, cast details and release date. Watch trailers, exclusive interviews, and movie review.

  16. ‎Moon 44 (1990) directed by Roland Emmerich • Reviews, film + cast

    Auf Moon 44 stimmt etwas nicht, deshalb wird der Agent Felix Stone undercover eingeschleust. S.F. Action von 1990 aus Deutschland in dem Roland Emmerich Regie geführt hat. Mit Michael Paré, Brian Thompson, Malcolm McDowell und Leon Rippy. Zuerst hat es mich ein wenig gewundert, das den Film hier wohl nicht so viele kennen.

  17. ‎Moon 44 (1990) directed by Roland Emmerich • Reviews, film + cast

    Year 2038: The mineral resources of the earth are drained, in space there are fights for the last deposits on other planets and satellites. This is the situation when one of the bigger mining corporations has lost all but one mineral moons and many of their fully automatic mining robots are disappearing on their flight home. Since nobody else wants the job, they send prisoners to defend the ...

  18. Moon 44

    Moon 44 - Metacritic. 1990. R. Lionsgate. 1 h 38 m. Summary An unconventional corporate agent is given the task of shaping a group of violent criminals and technical wizards into a helicopter defense force assigned to protect a mining station on a remote moon. Action.

  19. Kicked off a Decade of Blockbusters

    Tony and Mike watch Moon 44, the 1990 movie that kicked off director Roland Emmerich's partnership with Dean Devlin. Set on a distant moon where prisoners an...

  20. Moon 44 (1990) Movie Review

    Moon 44 is a 1990 science fiction film from Centropolis Film Productions, directed by Roland Emmerich and starring Michael Paré, Dean Devlin, & Lisa Eichhorn...

  21. Moon 44 critic reviews

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  22. Watch Moon 44

    An agent turns criminals and technical wizards into a defense force assigned to protect mines on a remote moon. Directed by Roland Emmerich, starring screen icon Malcom McDowell, Michael Paré and Lisa Eichhorn. 143. IMDb 5.0 1 h 35 min 2019 R. Action • Science Fiction • Alienated • Anxious.

  23. Moon 44 Movie (1990): Release Date, Cast, Ott, Review, Trailer, Story

    Moon 44 Hollywood Movie: Check out Michael Pare's Moon 44 movie release date, review, cast & crew, trailer, songs, teaser, story, budget, first day collection, box office collection, ott release ...