SPACE TRUCKERS (1997) **1/2 After an extraordinarily insightful extrapolation of truckstop diner culture onto interstellar commerce, and some damn fine traditional country sangin', this sadly loses its focus to the point of repeatedly embarassing moments in the scum galaxy, fortunately to regain a new one a few minutes before closing time. Wal, they can't all be gems. Dennis Hopper has hung out with enough authentic resources to know how real truckers do, and there's some sort of argument that there's something of an authenticism in his lone wolf rugged individualist posturing. Stephen Dorff holds his own nicely as a young upstart just looking for something to respect, and Debi Mazar is always good as a New York-born waitress at a Neptune moon diner. There are plenty of flashes of insight if no epiphanies, and the writers (Stuart Gordon and Ted Mann) have drawn their mark somewhere cool but within reach. No one writes space trucker movies to change the universe, even when the action includes exploding the President of the World and blowing overweight multigalactic corporate representatives out suction holes of space pods.
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