Take it in the spirit it was intended, and it's OK!

CinemaSerf

I rather liked this. Yep, it's a poorly produced no-budget sci-fi outing that reminded me of the lower end of the "Outer Limits" series I watched on telly in the early eighties; but it's fun. A group of kids stumble upon a spacecraft populated by the love children of "Robbie the Robot" and the "Cybermen" - they come from Neptune and are bent on taking over the word. Luckily, "Space Chief" - a sort of Lone Ranger with a spaceship - comes to the rescue and the battle lines are drawn and the cream of the world's scientific community have to combine their efforts to thwart these dastardly aliens. It's riddled with wartime archive footage and the same shots - especially in the aerial scenes - appear time and time again, but it's got a cheap charm about it and it's no worse than plenty of the similar nonsense the came from California in the 1950s. As ever, the dubbing doesn't exactly help - though I suspect the subtitles would't be that much better; and the kids are exasperating but it is worth a watch - just about.

score 4/10

CinemaSerf 17 November 2020

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