Moon 44

1990 5.0
Moon 44 poster

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.

Category
Films
Genres
Science Fiction
Runtime
1h 38m
Director
Roland Emmerich
Cast
Michael Paré, Lisa Eichhorn, Dean Devlin, Brian Thompson, Malcolm McDowell
Studio
Overseas FilmGroup
Country
West Germany, United States

Synopsis

In 2038, Earth's mineral resources are drained, there are space fights for the last deposits on other planets and satellites. This is the situation when one of the bigger mining corporations has lost many mineral moons except one and many of their fully automatic mining robots are disappearing on their flight home. Since nobody else wants the job, they send prisoners as a last resort to defend the mining station. Among them, internal affairs agent Felix Stone, assigned to clear the whereabouts of the expensive robots. In an atmosphere of corruption, fear and hatred, Stone gets between the fronts of rivaling groups and locates the person committing sabotage.