made for each other – in which Nina (Linda Hamilton), a beautiful thief of automobiles, says to Quint (Tommy Lee Jones), just before he possesses her in her high-tech loft, Please, don't lie to me. It's also a movie in which people spend a great deal of time getting into and out of cars, or pursuing each other in cars, a lot of them stolen. The film, which opens today at the Criterion and other theaters, sounds pretty silly, and it is, but it's not painful to watch. Harley Cokliss, the director, and John Carpenter, Desmond Nakano and William Gray, who wrote the screenplay, never allow credibility to worry them, or even those of us in the audience. Like a stolen car, it moves pretty fast, if erratically. It has a tendency to put Quint into impossible situations from which he walks away with unexplained ease. [...] Black Moon Rising is very much a January movie – something to fill a booking gap." Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a rating of 43%, based on 14 reviews, with an average rating of 4.31/10. Release The film was released in US theatres on January 10, 1986. Home media The film was released on DVD on January 30, 2001 initially, then on December 7, 2007, and finally on November 1, 2011, by Anchor Bay Entertainment. It was released on Blu-ray from Kino Lorber on May 14, 2019. References Sources External links 1986 films 1980s action thriller films 1980s crime thriller films American action thriller films American crime thriller films 1980s English-language films Films directed by Harley Cokeliss New World Pictures films Films about automobiles Films with screenplays by John Carpenter Films scored by Lalo Schifrin Films set in the Las Vegas Valley Films shot in Los Angeles Films shot in Los Angeles County, California 1980s American films