Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

1979

Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi

28
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 25% · 12 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 54% · 2.5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.5/10 10 7814 7.8K

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Plot summary

Capt. William "Buck" Rogers is a jovial space cowboy who is accidentally time-warped from 1987 to 2491. Earth is engaged in interplanetary war following a global holocaust, and Buck's piloting skills make him an ideal starfighter recruit for the Earth Defense Directorate.

Director

Daniel Haller Photo
Daniel Haller

Top cast

Tim O'Connor Photo
Tim O'Connor as Dr. Elias Huer
Gil Gerard Photo
Gil Gerard as Capt. William 'Buck' Rogers
Tony Epper Photo
Tony Epper as Drunk
Tony Brubaker Photo
Tony Brubaker as Self - Tony brubaker
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601.06 MB
956*720
English 2.0
PG
Subtitles
25 fps
1 hr 29 min
Seeds 2
1.27 GB
1424*1072
English 2.0
PG
Subtitles
25 fps
1 hr 29 min
Seeds 14

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by GenerationofSwine 10 / 10

OK, it's fun. And it is nice to

OK, it's fun. And it is nice to see the pristine Science-Fiction Future. Star Wars sort of did away with that in favor of the "lived in," Science Fiction sets complete with scruffy floors and filthy walls. And that Lived In universe became so popularized that it is really hard to find the pristine universe. And I am sort of partial to that. It might even be more accurate. I mean, my wife tried to get a little robot to clean our floors so now I do all the vacuuming because when the machines take over, I'm not getting whacked by a dust buster. I want a T-800 to have to take me out. A T-800 also took the lived in future to a post apocalyptic cesspool, which was also just amazing on screen and made for a killer story. I don't really care, I like all the themes, but Buck Rogers was so clean they wore white. It was like they were walking around in the gloves my mother wore to make sure my room was up to her military brat standards. And I might be joking a little, but that is a universe all to itself, it's a future all to itself, and it actually helps take you to a different world for a little while. It was set in an environment that I could lose myself in, with cheap robots that only hard core Sci-Fi fans could love. And then they went ahead and they made it fun to watch. Technically it wasn't the fx marvel that Star Wars was, but it had it's own heart, it had it's own humor, it had it's own mythology, it's own world, and it turned out to be pure escapist fun. Which, honestly, is why I watch movies and what movies SHOULD be made to do. So I'm giving it 10 of 10, because it was pure entertainment... ... but it should be a little lower. I sort of feel that Sci-Fi needs to find a philosophy and cling to it, examine it, use it to set up the rules to the new universe it's exploring, or offer some sort of heavily veiled social commentary... and this doesn't do either. So it misses that mark, it misses that necessary trope. But it brings entertainment to the table and that is all I ask for in a movie. It's fun to watch, so mission accomplished.
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Reviewed by paul_haakonsen 5 / 10

Adequately entertaining...

Oddly enough I've never actually seen anything of "Buck Rogers", aside from playing an RPG game based on it back in the 1990s. I knew about the "Buck Rogers" franchise, but just never really gotten into it. So I had the chance to sit down and watch the 1979 "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" movie here in 2020, so of course I did do that.

And had I been missing out on anything great? Well, hardly so. Sure, "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" was entertaining enough, but it just wasn't outstanding, and there were other space operas that quite outdid this 1979 movie by a longshot. That being said, don't misunderstand me, because "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" definitely was watchable and entertaining enough, but it just didn't manage to impress me.

The storyline was adequate, and it was a pretty straight forward ride. In fact, it was so straight forward that the movie was actually predictable. A shame, because there weren't really any ups and downs along the way, as the storyline unfolded on the screen.

Now, I am not familiar with the TV series, so I have no clue how true this 1979 movie turned out to be in comparison to the original TV series.

They did have a good ensemble of casted actors and actresses to portray the various roles throughout the movie.

My rating of "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century", though, settles on a mediocre five out of ten stars. It was enjoyable enough for what it was, but I must admit that for me this was by no account a classic sci-fi. And this was hardly a movie that I will be returning to watch a second time, unlike other space operas from back around that time.

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