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| View Larger Image | The Black Hole | DVDStarring: Kristy Swanson; Judd Nelson; David Selby; Heather Dawn; Robert Giardina; Jennifer Lyn Quackenbush; Christa Campbell; Julia Sinks; Peter Mayer; James Anthony; Kevin Beyer; Dan Buran; Tim Snay; Adrian Rice; Greg Carr; Chris Nolte; Rick Tamblyn; Ermal Williamson; Rod Bernsen; Susan Wood
Directed By: Tibor Takács
| List Price: | $6.99 | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | DVD | | Rating: |  | | Run Time: | 90 minutes | | Format: | AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, NTSC, Surround Sound, Widescreen | | Studio: | Echo Bridge Home Entertainment | | Number of Discs: | 1 | | Aspect Ratio: | 1.66:1 | | Release Date: | August 01, 2006 | | Sales Rank: | 21,242st |
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FEATURES | - BLACK HOLE, THE (DVD MOVIE)
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Product Description
A high-voltage sci-fi thriller loaded with explosive battles and gripping special effects. DVD Features include: Exploring The Black Hole: A Behind the Scenes Featurette with the Cast and Crew. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 2.0 based on 11 reviews)
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The Black Hole by Frances E. Walden (Yorktown, VA)  3 Stars
August 28, 2009
I'm not a Sci-fi type person but since my daughter was in this one, I watched it. It was interesting and now I know that every sci-fi doesn't have to be bloody and scary! Go Jennifer. What's next?
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Disappointed by Brice L. Korte (Summerdale, Al.)  2 Stars
July 09, 2009
With the cover and description of this movie was 'hyped', because the movie was rated a 2 star......boring!
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Ed Wood, move over. So bad, it`s funny. by M. Shepherd  1 Stars
May 18, 2009
Truely amazing. A movie about a black hole that totally ignores the concept of gravity!
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Nice Job!  4 Stars
August 05, 2008
Man, this baby was just great when I first watched it. It has realistic graphics, a nicely created black hole, great destruction, and more. I kept watching and watching, and it was fun, fun, fun. This movie would be good for people who like science fiction, and space. It is worth buying. For those people who like science fiction and space, you'd love it!
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It's a Disaster Film ... Literally by Tsuyoshi (Kyoto, Japan) 2 Stars
May 02, 2007
(Not to be confused with the 1979 sci-fi film of the same title starring Maximilian Schell, Anthony Perkins and Robert Forster. But probably you won't.)
Because of the messy experiences of quantum or something, by the scientists in St. Louis, a huge black hole opens up in the middle of the facility, and is about to swallow the city itself. If you find the premise unconvincing, there's more to come, for Kristy Swanson, who did a good job elsewhere but is miscast here, appears as Dr. Shannon Muir who is responsible for the terrible job. Or maybe not. I am not sure for the film does not explain much about the experiments, but that did not particularly bother me because what really matters in this kind of film is thrill and suspense, or any entertainment value, something "The Black Hole" desperately needs.
Anyway, another scientist played by Judd Nelson is called in, who was kicked out of the research team for the reasons that are not important. What is important is how to contain this disaster within the walls, and at least Swanson and Nelson know as much as that, but sadly not the filmmakers, who have no story to tell after the initial 20 minutes except the `general' who insists on using nuclear bombs, and some not-so-exciting episodes about a strange thing, or "electric entity,' that might be related to the hole.
What is really disappointing about the film is the lack of pace and logics. I can ignore plot holes if the story goes forward and tells something new every ten minute. It doesn't happen in `The Black Hole," where things happen slowly and in a bland way, and the two main characters have little to do. The characters scarcely seem to feel danger before this global disaster, so how can we? To make matters worse, the film doesn't show the titular "black hole" much. Actually you have to see things that are not directly related to the hole itself such as episodes about a divorced wife and her daughter. And though effects are OK, disaster scenes are not so memorable because they happen so sporadically.
I like so-called disaster films and loved to see many of them made in the 70s. Those films may not be the most scientifically correct ones, but they are fun to watch, even today, with a series of thrilling set-pieces. I tried to like this film, I really did, but still I must say "The Black Hole" needs a much better story, logics, effects, acting or everything that makes more decent actions.
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