Ah that old staple, a double-bill of movies made in 1999, about a killer on board a space station with an unusually small crew. One underwritten, the other overwritten:
Escape Velocity (1999) has a good central concept - a convicted, lunatic killer, is sprung from jail and escapes in a space ship putting himself into stasis, 15 years later his ship is picked up by a remote observatory vessel manned by a man, a woman and her teenage daughter. He looks innocent enough but pretty soon his evil side comes out.
This might have been fine as a 45 minute teleplay, but just feels endlessly dragged out into a 90 minute movie, which is a pity since it has a pretty good 'rape and revenge' thing going on in the second half as the mum kicks some ass.
Oddly enough made by the director of the 'Bound Heat' series, but not containing any softcore leather whips...
If you have some patience, this is enjoyable -
Escape Velocity review.
This Canadian film is a bit nutty. There is so much going on in the plot. A space shuttle damages the ISS while docking, it contains a cranky American pilot and a paying golf star (who is built more like a wrestler) on a promotional visit who seems to annoy the American a lot. One of the crew is suspected of murdering a Moscow prostitute, while one or other might be involved in a terrorist plot found by the military after explosively crushing an insurrection cell. Ultimately though, most of these parts just seem unnecessary when the real explanation emerges and it alone could have made for a perfectly good little film.
Quite European in its slightly surreal flavour, this is not one for everybody, but check out Michael Paré in a manic role -
Space Fury review.