Laserdisc TIMEMASTER (TIME MASTER) 1995 Noriyuki Pat Morita Rare No-DVD Sci-Fi LD Movie [42687]

Laserdisc Title: "TIMEMASTER (TIME MASTER)"
Edition: Letterboxed Edition (Double-Disc Set)
Directed By: James Glickenhaus
Starring: Jesse Cameron-Glickenhaus, Noriyuki Pat Morita, Joanna Pacula
Special Features: ------
Production / Year: 1995 SGE Entertainment Corporation
Running Time: 100 Minutes / Color
Audio Format: Digital Sound, Matrixed Surround, Stereo, CX Encoded
Video Format: LTBX (1.85:1), NTSC, CLV (Extended Play)
Miscellaneous Features: Rated PG-13, Closed Captioned
Distributed By: MCA Universal Home Video
Catalog / Spine Number: 42687

IMPORTANT: This is a 12-inch Diameter Laserdisc, which is NOT the same as DVD and cannot be played on a DVD player!

Cosmetic Condition:
Disc (s): Excellent - Hardly noticeable to few very light to very minor hairline surface swirls or very light fingerprint marks, if any
Jacket: Very Good - Normal shelf wear, creases, light scuffs, slightly worn-out corners or edges but no obvious signs of spines splitting

Synopsis:

This has to be one of the best low-budget films of all time! Michelle Williams, Michael Dorn and Pat Morita are awesome! Jesse needs acting lessons, though he is sufficient for the film. I love this movie even though it needed work it was a great science fiction film. The actors did good for being kids. It was great and the title just pulled me in.

This is a cool movie about a boy who travels through time to try and stop an evil plot by Dorn to destroy the Earth for a game. The game is kind of hard to explain. It is played for a life-giving substance called 'Blue.' Blue gives it's bearer eternal life, but if you stop taking it you die. Pat Morita enlists Jesse to stop this game and save his parents from being prisoners of the game. The plot is very complicated, you'll just have to see this movie. It's one-in-a-million. I give it 5 stars.

The Glickenhous family comes together here with a stewpot-of-everything for a decent time-manipulation story centering on Young Jesse being the only one who cares enough to convince a cynical Almost-bad-guy Pat Morita to help stop a future-based life-and-death-of-innocents-stakes time-manipulation competition from destroying his parents' lives. Flawed by a lackadaisical performance from Dorn, this study in how-to-produce-good-action-scenes-on-budget is great fun. Especially so the more you know your hero films. Hopping from a post-nuclear-war desert near-future to the far future to the late 1800's, it's use of remarkably good first and second-unit camera and stunt work and editing makes for remarkable emulations and dead-on copies of famous scenes and styling.

Stylistically accurate, dangerous and detailed scenes from Leone's mean Italian westerns, Mad Max, Dune, classic biker bar fights, and a stunningly accurate and exhausting Swiss spa location copy of the Bond ski chase (featuring the US free-style ski team) all come together for a demo-reel that would impress anyone. All this is tied together with the director's children in the lead roles and a story that isn't as bad as it feels with the lethargy that seems to emanate from Dorn's tangible uninvolvement with whatever scene he's in. While Patently absurd at $80 for the tape, especially since the wide screen version is on LD, if it's comes to DVD at basic prices, it's easily worth having as an example of how to get a film done on budget and on time and give the kids a good ride. Easily worth the time and trouble to check this one out.

THIS IS NOT A DVD!!! THIS IS A 12" LASERDISC AND WILL NOT PLAY IN A DVD PLAYER

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