I try not to beat up on films that are so obviously products of their time and cultural sensibilities. So I'll try to be fair to this one, because there are things to like about it.As other reviewers have noted, there's a weird tonal "split" in the screen play, and whether it actually works or not depends on your tastes and sensibilities. For me, it didn't work. Apparently Hammer didn't really understand Westerns (they were a British film studio, after all), or "hard" Science Fiction (at least if it didn't have a horror element like "X The Unknown), and here they tried to combine two genres they didn't do well. The results were disjointed and somewhat cheesy in a way they didn't intend. I give them (and the director) credit for trying something different from their usual run of horror and drama.Still, there are glimmers of a good and interesting movie under the kitsch. It does have a sense of humor and sometimes an actor will deliver a pretty good line that's mildly funny. James Olson (apparentlyfresh off "Andromeda Strain") does as good a job as the screenplay will let him, and his performance holds the film together even as it jitters around trying to decide what shtick or tone to adopt next.My biggest problem: the soundtrack. I understand that a lot of reviewers liked it, and that's fine. I liked about 30% of it.But if this screenplay is trying to be a Sci Fi/Western, the soundtrack seems to think it is supposed to be swinging James Bond era John Barry,only with the volume and the drama turned up to 11 and the singers having vocal orgasms. (Check out the title song as the credits roll an entirely unfunny animated cartoon sequence that seems to have nothing to do with the rest of the movie).It would crank up at the oddest times, like when a vehicle was leaving a hanger to go out to the Moon surface. OK, I got it, we're having an ADVENTURE...but if it's "Sci Fi", something a little bleaker and more ominous would be better; and if it's a Western, you'd want twanging guitars and majestic brass and a sense of historic grandeur. But again, once in a while things would calm down and we'd get something actually cool and echoey, something appropriate to being, you know, on the surface of THE MOON.One GREAT line, delivered by a minor character: "No one dies slowly on the Moon." The actor pulled it off perfectly. Plus one star just for that.In summary: "Moon Zero Two" doesn't hold up well, but there's enough "good" in it to leave some room for enjoyment. You may well like it better than I did.

After watching this movie, I realized I don't remember a thing about it. All I remember is the soundtrack, and boy is it a soundtrack.This movie takes everything bad about every sci-fi and mashes it together with overacting and cheap special effects. The result is something almost close to a masterpiece in B-movie cinema, but not exactly. For one, the Jazz steals the show, for two, the style of the movie was obviously inspired by 2001: A Space Odyssey but is also obviously inspired from the 60s, and finally, it's just bizarre. This movie's got exotic dance scenes, a low-gravity bar fight, a complicated plot that you don't care about, space shootouts, bowler hat villain, tough guy hero, useless heroine, and bad haircuts. What else can I say? Oh yeah, scientific background is essentially non-existent, but who cares? This is a great movie to watch if you want to teach yourself what NOT to do in a sci-fi story; it's also featured on a great episode on Mystery Science Theater 3000. In my opinion, that's the better choice.I have no idea what the title means....

One of Hammer's oddest films is this one, their sole foray into Science-Fiction, which has quite a maligned reputation but emerges to be reasonably tolerable under the circumstances. It obviously won't stand comparisons with the likes of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968), though still valuable for being one of the very first films to exploit the 1969 landing on the moon.The famed British studio were noted for making expensive-looking Gothic Horrors with limited means; here, however, the low budget shows through as the futuristic sets they came up with are rather shoddy! For what it's worth, the film does contain at least one Hammer-type image involving a space suit found to be inhabited by a skeleton. Incidentally, MOON ZERO TWO has been referred to as a Space Western (in view of its mining, dynamiting, discovery of a priceless mineral, claim-jumping and shoot-outs): so far so good…however, having an outer space saloon (complete with dancing cowgirls) in 2021 is beyond ridiculous! Peter Hyams had the good sense to forego such puerile shenanigans when he made his own 'Space Western' with Sean Connery, OUTLAND (1981).Having said that, It's undeniably superior to ZETA ONE (1969), which I watched recently, though still containing a definite camp factor – starting with the goofy animated credit sequence (accompanied by a decidedly infectious title tune) but extending to hilarious costumes and props…not to mention the presence of a dapper megalomaniac villain (by the way, as was the case with ZETA ONE itself, the cast features a member of the "Carry On" gang in Bernard Bresslaw, again, appearing as a baddie albeit a dimwitted brute!). Having mentioned the cast, Hammer stalwart Michael Ripper turns up here as well for one brief scene; as for the film's American lead, James Olson (with receding blond hair!) doesn't exactly set the screen on fire. It's interesting, though, that co-star Adrienne Corri would appear in Hammer's more traditional VAMPIRE CIRCUS (though still contriving a twist in its tail) and Kubrick's subsequent piece of sophisticated sci-fi, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, within the same year (1971).

This is one of the few Hammer films that (to my knowledge) never made it on to VHS. Now with Anchor Bay releasing most of the Hammer Collection on to DVD, I'd like to see them release this one as well. I saw this in 1970 when I was a little kid, and one of the most hilarious things I remember about it was seeing the rock band from the time period when the movie was in production, playing as aged old men rock stars in the future. It kinda reminds me of the old rock stars from the 60s and 70s playing the same thing today, who haven't changed at all except their age.I'm not gonna rate it at this time because I haven't seen it in so long, but I'll be looking forward to it if and when it comes out. Just don't take it seriously like some of the other reviews below. It's only escapist fare.And never mind the MST2K crap. The film isn't that bad to deserve that kind of treatment.