Codename Apocalypse (1997)

Codename Apocalypse: Directed by Hubert de La Bouillerie. With Sandra Bernhard, Cameron Dye, Frank Zagarino, Michelle Anne Johnson. A salvage pilot and a bartender go up against a crazed computer programmer and the head of a criminal gang who have equipped a spaceship with nuclear warheads and plan to crash it into Earth.

“If you manage to get through the entire film and give it more thought than it warrants, you may find seeds of what could have been a good film scattered throughout.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eSandra Bernhard did a fair job with her leading role, only to be let down by the rest of the cast, the writing, directing, and effects (I suppose the sets were passable). Laura San Giacomo gives possibly the worst performance, completely over the top spouting incoherent snatches of Shakespeare. It appears that her part was filmed later and edited in, as she never interacts with the other actors and the u0026quot;hackeru0026quot; uses male pronouns when referring to her and her image.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThis seemed as if several amateurs each directed a couple randomly-selected scenes without regard to each otheru0026#39;s work, as characters are played very differently in adjoining scenes with no sense of development. The film ends suddenly and poorly, as if someone with an eye to the budget yelled u0026quot;Cut, print!u0026quot; the instant that the money ran out.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003ePerhaps this film itself was a salvage operation, where the shoot terminated prematurely and the studio edited whatever had already been filmed into something they could release upon an unsuspecting public.”