Spoiler Movie
Storyline
TAGLINES
No prison can hold him... no system can control him.
In The Future, The Icebox Is The Toughest Prison In The Beta Galaxy... Only The Spoiler Can Escape.
Roger Mason is a prisoner locked away in a futuristic fortress of a jail. Desperate to escape and see his daughter, he keeps making attempt after attempt to break free, but each one is foiled just as he's about to gain his freedom. As his punishments include being frozen in suspended animation for years at a time, he stays the same age while his daughter grows older. As more time keeps being added to his sentence, he despairs of ever getting out.
| Gary Daniels | Roger Mason |
| Meg Foster | Woman #1 |
| Bryan Genesse | Bounty #1 |
| Jeffrey Combs | Captain |
| Nicholas Sadler | Renny |
| Steven Schub | Phil |
| Stewart Finlay-McLennan | Lory |
| Joe Unger | Clemets |
| David Groh | Uncle Hutchy |
| Sarah Freeman | Maggie |
| Bruce Glover | Priest |
| Jean Speegle Howard | Jillian, Jennifer |
| Willard E. Pugh | Bounty #2 |
| Duane Whitaker | Sergeant |
| Jeff Burr |
4.30 out of 10 (107 votes)
Visitor Reviews
Nice Change For Daniels.
posted on 14 Jan 2009Although made on a low budget, this movie manages to have some good effects and suspenseful escape scenes. Daniels gets few chances to show off his awesome fighting skills, instead focusing on his performance. He gives a excellent performance, proving he can do more than fight. You actually feel sorry for Roger Mason and understand why he makes the choices he does. 6 out of 10.
Sh*-Fi
posted on 07 Apr 2008The film chooses to be sci-fi and then it chooses to have melodrama as well? Doesn't work when there is little attention to acting, and the script is poor. There is one scene in particular that goes on too long and you just can't take it seriously, but let's have your viewing ruin it for you!
One of the best movies I've seen!
posted on 08 Mar 2008It's a pretty sad to see a man wasting all those years and almost never able to see his daughter. But at least he gets to see her, even if she was old enough to be his mother. In a way the tagline of Mason trying to see his daughter before it was to late was good.
NOT A BAD LITTLE LOW BUDGET SCI-FI FILM
posted on 01 Nov 2005The special effects when they come are handled well enough when they finaly come.The acting is very poor and in places makes you cringe.The idea is kinda like Demolition Man crossed with Blade Runner.Its not the worst sci-fi low budget movie out there,could have been much better if handled with a bit of care.Id give it 5/10.
Reach out for a shiny new tomorrow!
posted on 05 May 2005Gary Daniels stars as a spoiler, an escaped convict in a prison system that freezes it's criminals for years on end while bounty hunters and police are always two inches behind our wrongfully accused hero. Gary Daniels is rather impressive and the movie far exceeds the expectations you have of it. One of the main reasons Spoiler works so well is that it relies more on the conflict between Daniels' personal tragedy instead of action. The action sequences (Especially the one on one between G.Daniels and Brian Genesse) are poorly staged but the story holds so much interest and the special effects are good (Especially considering the budget) that one is more inclined to go with the flow of the film and enjoy the movie's melodrama as Gary Daniels searches for his daughter. Indeed the movie ends on a depressing note and it becomes one of the few B.movies that actually leave an effect on you. Although the movie should not be taken seriously on its politics, it is admirable that the movie's real entertainment comes from the stylish directing and good acting from the cast.* * * out of 4-(Good)
Made me cry.
posted on 07 Feb 2004Great movie, one of the few I bought to keep at home, shouldn't be underestimated just because it's a B-movie.It has enough action and sci-fi to satisfy most viewers, but the plot thickens as we see the revolving drama around Roger Mason's successive arrests, and witnessing his family dying as he stays young preserved in the cryogenic prison. It purely portraits the despair of a family man, for whom life is nothing without his wife and daughter, and in the end is "saved" by them, who call him to paradise as he is gunned down by the police.Gary Daniels portrayed the character's suffering and despair perfectly, 5 star to his performance.
very depressing...... in a good way!
posted on 05 Jan 2001This prison thriller that borrows from fortress and demolition man ever so slightly was a real surprise to me, i am a Gary Daniels fan and knowing in advance that he is playing someone without martial arts skill i was not expecting much, but this turned out to be a fairly decent prison drama, the whole film has a certain proffesional look about it that you normally don't see in many of Garys movies, in this it was presented like a big film despite being only $500,000 in budget, and for the most part they manage to hide the fact its painfully cheap. The special effects for a movie this cheap are top draw. The plot centres around Roger Mason who is wrongly convicted of assisting in armed robbery and is sentanced to 1 year in prison he then tries to escape but is caught thanks to a bounty hunter, he is desperate to see his daughter but gets frozen in for 26 years and when he awakens a doctor tells him as untactfully and unsympathetic as you can get that his parents are both dead and that his daughter is now 36, and you really then start to feel for the guy, you could argue that it was stupid of him to break out for only a one year sentance but if your wrongly convicted that is one year too long and he wasn't to know of the fate awaiting him, anyway the film has a rather depressing, no hope of a tone and really makes his situation bleak, the makers wanted to really put this character through hell and not sugar coat it all like alot of films would. Gary Daniels is miscast, but in all fairness in a role that is a test to his acting skills more often than not he does it well, the fights are not in a martial arts style that would have undermined its serious tone so Gary really doesn't do anything impressive stunt wise either, because this is not an action film. The film is good in the way you really feel sorry for the character you want him to see his daughter, and without giving too much away it is sad when he finds her. This could have been worthy of a theatrical release if it was more expensive and had more of an accomplished actor in the lead another case like this was Sixth Day a film with unforfilled potential and poor casting, although Sixth Day was the biggest let down and in fiarness Gary does a slightly better job than Arns cheesy one in Sixth day, i'm not saying its the norm for Arnold, because he has done much better with his acting in other movies. Overall this is a well shot film that for a b-movies at times oozes class, it doesn't get it right all the time but one other thing to add is that this is probably the closed a b-movie has come to making me cry.
the most painful movie I have ever seen - spoiler included
posted on 25 Oct 2000I want you to imagine for a moment. Imagine you are coming home from an evening out on the town with a friend, after having a few drinks together. As you're coming around the corner, You see a person carrying a child and walking a dog. You hit the brakes and try to swerve the car, but you end up hitting him/her anyway, then going off the road and ramming a telephone pole. You wake up hours later where you learn that the person was your spouse and the child was your child, and the dog was your dog. Then you learn that not only did your best friend go through the windshield and die, but he had advanced AIDS and since he bled all over you, now you do too. And to top it all off, they've had to amputate both your arms. Then a Man walks up to you and says "I can make it all better, I'll let you have another chance. I'll give you back your family, your dog, your friend, your car. I'll take away the memory of this evening, and the disease as well. I'll even cure your friend. And All you have to do for me is watch Spoiler." It's not worth it. Say no and walk away. Spoiler is hands down the worst movie I have ever seen. I've sat through Manos, The hands of Fate, I've sat through Monster a Go Go, I've watched Red zone Cuba twice, I've seen every move Steven Seagal has ever made. I saw street fighter, Armageddon, Clockstoppers, the Core and the Day after Tomorrow in theaters and spoiler is still the only movie I've actually almost passed out from watching. It's also a landmark movie in it's use of time compression technology, as it makes each minute feel like you've just watched between 6 minutes and 4 months of nothing happening. My Friend and I Actually looked at each other after it was over and said that it was the longest 7 hours of our lives. Then we looked at a clock and realized it had only been 90 minutes. (Then we promptly pulled the tape out of the cassette, snipped it in a few places and threw it into a dumpster off a fifth story balcony). Spoiler___________________________________________In the end, your expecting them to build up something climactic, and the surprise is that nothing happens and the movie ends, and no one cares. The best part of this movie is when they drag the main character in and beat him with clubs. If only they would do that to the director too.
not worth a rental
posted on 16 Jul 2009Why didn't one of the 8 voters post a review so I could have avoided this one. Billed as a sci-fi flick about an escape artist, there's not much clever escape stuff, not much acting, not much plot, and lots of big holes in it anyway. It's over-rated at 5, I'd give it a 3, about equal to the bummer Solders of Fortune, maybe on a par with Counter Measures. I can't see it appealing to anyone, it's even short on action. -Bob