Nothing about this futuristic sci-fi adventure is exceptional or unexpected, except the extensive exposition involving gems replacing cash as currency. While ripping off master criminal Sanchez Boon (C. Thomas Howell), gentleman thief Harry Maxwell (Scott McNeil) finds his getaway impeded by an incoming SWAT team. Unflustered, Harry snatches some baubles and frees Pandora Grimes (Heather Hanson), a slave who works in Sanchez's faux-emerald lab. Together they elude Sanchez's bodyguards, then hide in a crate bound for a galactic prison ship. Sanchez is captured by the Feds, and finds himself being shipped off to that same destination. Once aboard, however, wily Sanchez...
Released:
1998
Rated:
NR
Length:
111 mins