Robert Beltran | Films | Night of the Comet

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Average score to date: 7.4

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Reviewed by Teri:

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Regina - Catherine Mary Stewart
Samantha - Kelli Moroney
Audrey - Mary Woronov
Hector - Robert Beltran

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Synopsis

Reggie works at the theater where everyone eagerly awaits the comet. She spends the night in the projection booth with boyfriend, Larry. Morning finds a ravaged earth. Only those few like Reg and a group of (?) scientists who, foreseeing the disaster, took to an underground bunker are alive to see it.

Larry is quickly disposed of by a strange mutant creature. Reggie manages to escape and heads for home across an eerie, empty LA. The streets are cloaked in a strange, red smog. At home, she discovers sister Sam was lurking all night in the storage shed after a fight with their (evil) step-mother.

film still Sam and Reggie soon come to the conclusion that they have the entire city to themselves - almost. The radio is broadcasting but when they go to investigate, they discover the signal is automated. They are surprised by a gun-toting Hector. He apparently spent the night in the back of his semi truck.

While Reggie and Hector bond, sister Sam plays with the radio equipment and gets a call from the scientists. They phone goes dead before she finds out where they are. The scientists are an odd group. The leader wants to bring survivors back to their facility but Audrey wants no part in it. She unwillingly joins the group headed to the city to look for our 3 heroes.

Hector decides he has to go back home to San Diego to look for his family but he promises to return. (He's got the only two live women on planet earth - damn straight, he's coming back!!). In San Diego, we find out that Hector's a nice guy. He misses his mom and sadly collects family photos from the house. When he finds a 10 yr old hungry critter in the back yard, he can't shoot him and elects to run away.

Meanwhile, Reggie and Sam miss their friends and need a little pick me up. Shopping anyone? (This is my dream come true - all LA to pick from and unlimited credit !!). Unfortunately, they have company, but it turns out our two ingenues are kickass army brats who know their way around automatic weaponry. They are captured by the ghouls but the scientists show up in the nick of time to save them.

film still The scientists take Reggie with them but Sam keeps scratching and they are sure she must be infected so they suggest she stay behind to wait with 2 of the scientists for Hector. She's happy to do cause even though he isn't a fox (?!?!?!?!) he's not bad considering the alternatives. (Sam is not a Rhodes scholar).

Audrey injects Samantha with something to "help prevent the onset of ghoul-ism" and drifts off to sleep. Oscar's impressed, he didn't realize it would be so painless but Audrey's making him edgy. With good reason as it turns out - she calmly kills him.

A Santa-suited Hector returns to the station to find Audrey - and a suicide note explaining everything (too bad they didn't explain it to me, I had NO idea what was going on here).

Reggie's being given the third degree by the head scientist and gets suspicious when he puts on sunglasses in a dark room. He coldly informs her that her sister is dead. RED ALERT you just pissed off the wrong teenager. As Reggie runs rampant, Hector makes an appearance with a surprise in his trunk.

film still Sam and Hector help to rescue Reggie and two kids they picked up along the way. The evil scientists it appears wanted the blood of survivors to make an anti-dote for themselves and Audrey was actually one of the good guys. Our heroes are victorious.

A cleansing rain restores the city and life is perfect when Sam finds a guy. The six survivors are left with the burden of civilization resting on their young shoulders.

REVIEW

Where to begin? Well.....let's start by suspending reality. If you can't do that, you won't make it past the credits. The premise is flawed in so many ways there is really no point in getting into it. It's not supposed to make sense anyway - it's just a silly comedy. Unfortunately, it's also not very funny.

Samantha, in describing Hector says, "The last guy left alive [in LA] is either a gentleman or a fag - what are the odds?" As it turns out, they're pretty good. Hector is a real nice guy. These two sisters seem VERY close, I'm guessing they work out some "alternative arrangement" before very long. (Nope! - they surprised me with Sam's new guy at the end).

The movie introduces yet another one of my fantasies - Robert Beltran and only one other woman on the face of the earth for him to copulate with (of course that's still probably one too many for me to stand a fighting chance but it's still better than the current odds :-D).

This movie was cute. It had the potential to be funny, it just came up short. It sounds like a 1950's B movie and, to me, would have worked better if they'd done a very campy spoof. The parts I found the most amusing were probably not meant to be funny. The HAIR, the CLOTHING !! This movie is SOOOO 1980s it's almost painful.

This movie also could have been a real edge of your seat thriller but again, it just didn't cut it. It's almost like the director wasn't sure what he wanted to do with it. Is it a comedy, is it a thriller, is it a tear-jerker? It had small moments of each but not enough of any of them to save the film.

There's nothing offensive here but then again there's not much of anything here.

Sorry folks but this one just didn't do it for me 2*

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Review by Teri

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Name: Tehya
E-mail: tehya1905@yahoo.com
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I love the film, not so much for the plot as for Robert Beltran. In my eyes he saved the whole thing, but I guess I ma a little biased here.
Name: Dave
E-mail: webmaster@nightofthecomet.info
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Typing error in last post. It should of course be: www.nightofthecomet.info
Name: Dave
E-mail: webmaster@nightofthecomet.info
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I love Night of the Comet. It's just so... Eighties! Teenagers with attitude - check; big hair and shoulder pads - check; keyboard-heavy soundtrack - check; cheesy dance scene - check. Nuff said. For more info on the fil, check out my unofficial fan site www.nightofthecoet.info
Name: Jennifer
E-mail: hilariousone2000@yahoo.com
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I really liked this movie. I'm a sucker for 80's B-movies! And to have RB in it is even better! My eyes never left the screen when he was in the different scenes with the girls. Man, alot of the women here are right..he IS easy on those gorgeous eyes of his! They make me melt! LOL! Anyway, good movie. But the zombies kind of freaked me out a little bit.
Name: Karen Ledesma
E-mail: Karenzo@comcast.net
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My eyes never left the screen while Hector (Robert Beltran) was on. Was anyone even following the plot? I watched it solely for Beltran. He added the much needed comic relief to the story. Besides, he sure looked good. Of coarse I was, what, 15 at the time. Since then, I still watch it...for Beltran, of coarse. He is incredibly easy on the eyes.
Name: Angela cox
E-mail: beltranangel@yahoo.co.uk
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I have to ask myself why anyone with the resuorces to make a film would make this lot of rubbish .That said Roberts input into this movie must have saved the day(see ORB-self-portrait).The best bits are all Hectors,going home was moving and funny(Hectors shout of "there goes the neighborhood was very funny as I am addicted to Los Lobos 's song THE NEIGHBORHOOD).Later Hector being a hick/okie was great but the best bit had to be the end.I loved Hector's taking on the fathers role of worrying who his "sister-in-law " was going out with and oh boy Robert is cute in this...a lot chubbier than Raoul or Kayo so twice as huggable.This movie has grown on me a bit it took a lot of hard work to get it......you expect unemployment,drugs to bring down a neighborhood but ZOMBIES.....?
Name: Katane
E-mail: katane@chantico.com
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This is the first film that I saw with RB in it, so I have a soft spot for it - and I like this sort of science fiction B-movie - I saw it when it was first released, so all the '80s stuff made sense then!
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