A giant asteroid is dangerously heading towards our beloved Earth. A selected team of Astronauts embark on a seemingly difficult mission of loading explosives on the asteroid and detonating them. After the mission's success, the team returns to the space station without knowing that they have carried with them a gooey green substance that develops a one-eyed monster as soon as it reacts with electricity . Chaos ensues!
Accomplished director Kinji Fukasaku (Battle Royale !) puts a lot of effort on this Sci-Fi gem! And his work is actually obvious as this movie does not lack special effects and detailed sets and costumes (ok, besides the monster that is). This is not an average Sci-Fi B-movie. It a real serious effort of its time and shows that collaborations can have admirable results (U.S.A and Japan).
Robert Horton is a classic American hardass astronaut, Luciana Paluzzi is his movie amore who happens to be extremely hot too and Richard Jaeckel goes right in the middle! Due to the fact that this film is a collaboration between two countries you can actually identify which parts were executed by which country. American acting, American set and costumes, American seriousness but Japanese monsters, Japanese imaginative story and Japanese directing and progress of the film! Really entertaining
Must watch this : with a person of the opposite sex that you want to impress. Impress them with your knowledge of such films and some geeky food (sushi or whatever) and then surprise them with a total twist of character and throw yourself on them for some steamy-geeky fun! In other words act Japanese and then American on them! Will totally work! Thank me later!
Trailer
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064393/
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| How can you not notice that? |
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| Hard conversation between hard men |
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| Where will you be when diarrhea strikes? (sic) |
Loved it man
ReplyDeleteYeah you did!
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