Quartile rating: 4.5/10 · 1 rating
The year is 2087, the setting is the moon. Pluto Nash, the high-flying successful owner of the hottest nightclub in the universe, finds himself in trouble when he refuses to sell his club to lunar gangster Mogan, who just happens to be helping the mysterious Rex Crater mastermind a plan to take over the entire moon.
The Adventures of Pluto Nash is widely regarded as one of Hollywood's most notorious box office flops and critical failures. The plot is a generic gangster/action-comedy transplanted to a moon setting with little creative use of its sci-fi premise. The acting, despite a cast including Eddie Murphy, Randy Quaid, and Rosario Dawson, is largely flat and uninspired, with Murphy failing to bring his usual charisma. The cinematography and production design, while occasionally showing ambition in depicting a moon colony, feel cheap and unconvincing given the budget. The film offers little novelty despite its futuristic setting, recycling familiar crime comedy beats without any distinctive voice or vision. The ending is particularly weak, featuring a twist that is poorly executed and fails to generate any real payoff, capping off an already underwhelming experience.