the world be face imminent destruction and a suicide mission be send to the sun to avert catastrophe by fire a bomb into it fiery heart represent yes and it solar crisis and aka crisis 2050 and which burn up a huge chunk of change that never apparent on screen back in 1990 and return barely enough to buy a happy meal for each of the cast in japan before go straight to video ( remember them . ) in a re edit version credit to one alan smithee . the plot hook pretty much the same a sunshine suicide mission to the sun and saboteur on board and logic cast adrift except that this time theyre not try to reignite the sun but to prematurely detonate a solar flare before it can reach earth . with a talk bomb . voice by paul williams . who want to be promote so the crew will take him more seriously give that the cast also include jack palance at his most dementedly ott and charlton heston at his most rigid and top liner tim matheson at his most anonymous and the original hill have eye unforgettable michael berryman ( you may not remember the name and but you do remember that face ) and peter boyle a the industrialist out to sabotage the mission because and er and if it succeed the world will be save but his share price will go down and you would expect if not a laugh a minute at least a laugh every reel . no joy . this be the bad kind of bad movie represent a bore one . the fate of the world may be hang in the balance but the whole film be shoot with a complete lack of urgency or momentum at the same unvarying deadly slow pace . there low key and there walk through it and but here the cast do not even do that . instead and they just stand still look at screen in near darkness for most of the time . you keep on hop for paul williams talk bomb to suffer an existential crisis and but instead the film just . stand there and do next to nothing . literally . this be one of the most inert movie ever make so inert that if clive owen have be cast and he would almost have look lively by comparison . even a poorly explain suicidal repair attempt fail to raise a fritter of interest since it mostly involve and yep and the cast just stand still look at screen in near darkness . even when the bomb prematurely go into countdown before be launch they deal with the new crisis by stand still look at screen in near darkness a if they have all the time in the world . merchant ivory film have good action scene . thing aren not much lively down on earth where the movie spend most of it run time with matheson son or chuck grandson corin nemec try to hitch a ride to the spaceport across an arid landscape with palance insane desert artist look for that note out there while the chick still dig me while waylay by reject from a mad max ripoff and evil corporate suit who track him down so they can release him on a nice beach . just do not expect logic and if you haven not already guess that much . best moment . a ditzy girl in a bar describe jack palance a an old guy with white hair and a face like rot leather and though chucky baby take out the villain aircraft with a bazooka fire from the hip from an office window or beat up a barfly who like his beret be welcome morsel of camp in a film that for 99 % of it run time offer a whole lot of nuttin . richard c. sarafian slightly longer original cut that play in japan offer an additional six minute but cry out to be cut down to a more manageable 17 minute represent the director of vanish point must have thank his lucky star when the re edit give him an excuse to take his name off the film . a film so bad it not good and and painfully unfunny with it .