I saw this movie back in the mid 1980's on HBO. I never remember it ever showing in the theaters here in Missouri (and it probably didn't). In fact I never heard of this movie until HBO started showing in rotation sometime around 1985. The HBO previews combined with the Title, gave me the preconceived notion that this film was going to something similar to the Road Warrior chalked full of Quiet Riot/Twisted Sister style Heavy Metal music(and maybe some 3D nudity & 3D violence to accompany the heavy metal music). . . . . . . . . . . . And of Course it turned out to be none of that! ! ! ! ! !
The Producers and Studio would've both been far-far better off to have made the Heavy Metal music fest/nudity filled /voilent road warrior style film that I had imagined that I was going to see.
Never judge a book by its cover, and never set you movie expectations based on the title.(because this one will mislead you).
Instead I got a movie that I didn't understand. The plot was simple. -- there have been several reviews where people wrote that this movie didn't have a plot ...well, the truth is that it does, and it's a good plot. The main character was a ranger in a post nuclear waste lands who befriends a girl (Kelly Preston) who watches her father murdered by a green man with a mechanical arm (Richard Moll) and together they set out to bring justice to a a cult leader named Jared Synn. The problem with this movie isn't the plot, it has a good plot, the real problem with this movie is that they just didn't do anything with the plot. The characters are underdeveloped, the acting is poor(very poor), the special effects are about in the same category as a Japanese sci-fi TV shows.
The only really good thing I can say about this movie is that it does have a decent music score.
The Producers and Studio would've both been far-far better off to have made the Heavy Metal music fest/nudity filled /voilent road warrior style film that I had imagined that I was going to see.
Never judge a book by its cover, and never set you movie expectations based on the title.(because this one will mislead you).
Instead I got a movie that I didn't understand. The plot was simple. -- there have been several reviews where people wrote that this movie didn't have a plot ...well, the truth is that it does, and it's a good plot. The main character was a ranger in a post nuclear waste lands who befriends a girl (Kelly Preston) who watches her father murdered by a green man with a mechanical arm (Richard Moll) and together they set out to bring justice to a a cult leader named Jared Synn. The problem with this movie isn't the plot, it has a good plot, the real problem with this movie is that they just didn't do anything with the plot. The characters are underdeveloped, the acting is poor(very poor), the special effects are about in the same category as a Japanese sci-fi TV shows.
The only really good thing I can say about this movie is that it does have a decent music score.