A story that would not have been out of place as a story in Astounding Science Fiction in 1953 or thereabouts, only with the best visual effects the Wachowskis' reputation could buy. Anyone who liked Dune or Flash Gordon in any screen incarnation would be entertained, and anyone looking for a 'Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy' done straight might also be entertained, though it would have been funnier if Mila Kunis did get passively dragged round the universe in unsuitable attire. As it happenned, her rescuer was too chivalrous to allow that, before engaging in a vertiginous chase that shoots up most of central Chigago.
Most 80's films would just not even bother to explain that sort of thing away, however this one tries to explain why outer space aliens have been pulling the wool over our eyes; before heading off into space where there is lots of intricate yet massive in scale CGI.
People who hang round this site will have a plummeting whale of a time trying to spot the different films etc. cribbed from. You'll guess the secret ingredient right from the moment it's mentioned if you're paying attention, and when everything was done I had to check it was an original property not an adaptation of a YA book.
It's a mystery why this film didn't make its' money back on DVD or streaming platform or whatever, but it did kind of slip out kind of quietly, and there is better stuff out there, like Guardians of the Galaxy which has the entire Marvel comics 'verse to mine. It's not intolerable to a sci-fi audience who are just looking for spaceships, planets and rayguns, because here they are and they've all had a bucket of money thrown at them; comic book mooks and villains are also in attendance; the plot twists about a fair bit but is not as incomprehensable as people say; and the titular character may well be more passive than some would like, but who the hell would get anywhere normally by kicking everyone they meets square in the jaw the minute they're out of their comfort zone?
Flash Gordon/HH G2t G/Go T/Quatermass done as YA fiction.
A story that would not have been out of place as a story in Astounding Science Fiction in 1953 or thereabouts, only with the best visual effects the Wachowskis' reputation could buy. Anyone who liked Dune or Flash Gordon in any screen incarnation would be entertained, and anyone looking for a 'Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy' done straight might also be entertained, though it would have been funnier if Mila Kunis did get passively dragged round the universe in unsuitable attire. As it happenned, her rescuer was too chivalrous to allow that, before engaging in a vertiginous chase that shoots up most of central Chigago.
Most 80's films would just not even bother to explain that sort of thing away, however this one tries to explain why outer space aliens have been pulling the wool over our eyes; before heading off into space where there is lots of intricate yet massive in scale CGI.
People who hang round this site will have a plummeting whale of a time trying to spot the different films etc. cribbed from. You'll guess the secret ingredient right from the moment it's mentioned if you're paying attention, and when everything was done I had to check it was an original property not an adaptation of a YA book.
It's a mystery why this film didn't make its' money back on DVD or streaming platform or whatever, but it did kind of slip out kind of quietly, and there is better stuff out there, like Guardians of the Galaxy which has the entire Marvel comics 'verse to mine. It's not intolerable to a sci-fi audience who are just looking for spaceships, planets and rayguns, because here they are and they've all had a bucket of money thrown at them; comic book mooks and villains are also in attendance; the plot twists about a fair bit but is not as incomprehensable as people say; and the titular character may well be more passive than some would like, but who the hell would get anywhere normally by kicking everyone they meets square in the jaw the minute they're out of their comfort zone?