Deep Space isn't a space movie at all. It's set in an American town where an object from space crash lands and creates a lot of havoc. The object contains an experimental biological weapon devised by the US government with the intent of eliminating the nations enemies. Well the creature starts running amok killing any poor sod who gets in it's way. It's up to two Detectives and a co-worker to stop the thing before it kills everyone.

What to say about Deep Space? It's a b-movie from the late 80's and it has a monster in it that resembles Giger's Alien just a wee bit too much for my liking and it has some rough round the edges Detectives who like to get the job done anyway they can.

The movie doesn't really need to be expanded upon much more than that quite frankly, that says it all. It's a cheap fright flick which has a strange charm about it, mainly due to the characters enjoyment at sticking their thumb up to authority. This isn't a movie that likes to take itself too seriously and that's probably a good thing.

The special effects have aged a lot, it really did'nt look so bad back in the day but the monster looks very plastic to me now, like a guy in a rubber suit with virtually zero articulation.

The actors seem to do well with what is a very thin script. The main lead in the movie Det. McLemore is portrayed by Charles Napier who brings his usual strong ruggedness to the character and it's all the better for it. His partner Jerry is played by Ron Glass and the two work together very well. There's a couple of good looking women in Deep Space but sadly there is no fan service.

Deep Space alludes to having a lot of gore but sadly you don't get to see most of it, most of it takes place off camera but what we do get to see is OK i guess. I wouldn't say Deep Space is very frightening either, it's fairly predictable stuff but regardless as a b-movie i've seen much much worse.

Consequently, Deep Space isn't a movie i'd suggest rushing out to the retail store and buying as fast as you can. Heck even if you wanted to, to date this movie has no DVD/Blu-ray release, it's only available on VHS so you'd need to dust off the old recorder first. Having said that if you can catch it on TV and your bored then there's worse movies you could watch.