Black Moon Rising

During scenes filmed from the backseat of Quint's Dodge Daytona, you can see an indicator light on the dash revealing that the hatch is open.

Perhaps this is to make room for the rig, camera or crew.

In the scene when Nina is driving the "Black Moon", chased by Quint, the car has a normal round steering wheel.

In all other scenes the steering wheel of the "Black Moon" has two handles.

When the owner of "Black Moon" is describing the car at The Betsy, he says the body is made from "Kelvar".

The super-strong plastic is "Kevlar", not Kelvar.

During the opening sequence, Quint runs towards a glass door to escape, however, he clearly stops well short of the door.

The ensuing shot is from a side angle of (him) bursting through the glass door in a jumping fashion, as if in one continuous motion.

Quints Daytona makes the sound of a V-8 engine.

The Daytona was never offered with a V-8 engine.

Nina has two vehicles parked in front of her building (both her cars), a white Rolls Royce and a green Jaguar.

The cars swap positions between shots, without being driven.

The 6-shot revolver that Quints pulls from under his car is fired 7 times without reloading.

As Quint slides his Daytona sideways, to park between the Jaguar and the Rolls Royce, the trash and trash cans that were between the cars disappear.

As Quint reaches the top of tower #2 (from the stairway), his jumpsuit appears to be quite dirty/dusty around the shoulders (light colored dust).

In the next shot, the suit is again strikingly black.

The video technicians show up for work, but in a previous shot they are already on site working on the problem.

All the windows of the Black Moon appear solid black in every scene, until inside the freight elevator, where they suddenly become clear glass.

Earl slices into the insulation on the video cable, spreading the jacket open to reveal the cabling inside.

In the next shot, he is still slicing into the insulation jacket.

Nothing new in this generic and almost lifeless picture who owns its good moments thankful to the charismatic Tommy Lee Jones, who plays the thief hired by the FBI to steal vital information about a corrupt company. It all complicates when he's followed by the company's security after stealing the info which was hidden in a supersonic new car, object of desire of another thief (Linda Hamilton) who works for another corrupt company, commanded by a powerful businessman (Robert Vaughn).

"Black Moon Rising" is a movie to be recognize with. Plenty of action, adventure, and intrigue to boot.

No I'm not talking about Tommy Lee Jones or Linda Hamilton, both quite well known. No I mean the movie itself.

Sometimes even movies released into regular circulation from the major studios fall through the cracks. This is definitely one of those.

The FBI hires professional thief Quint (Tommy Lee Jones) to steal some data tapes. But he's caught in the act and has to hide the tapes in a prototype super car called the Black Moon.

Cool concept. Horrid acting.

Black Moon Rising starts in Nevada in Las Vegas where professional thief for hire Sam Quint (Tommy Lee Jones) is on a job for the US Government, Quint has been hired to break into the Dollar Corporation headquarters & steal certain tax records on a tape that will implicate the company in tax evasion & other criminal activities. Quint breaks into the Dollar Corporation building but sets off the alarms, Quint manages to steal the tape & escape but head of security Marvin Ringer (Lee Ving) & his guards are hot on his tail.

In the 80s this might have been considered mediocre, but it is the type of movie that simply can't be made today. Watch it -love it.

With a screenplay partially written by John Carpenter (Halloween), a cast that includes Tommy Lee Jones in the lead, and a dream car called the Black Moon that travels up to 350 miles per hour, one should feel entitled to see a pretty good movie here. It doesn't quite work out that way, however.