Interstellar Wars (2016) User Reviews

THE worst movie I have ever seen, incompetent, idiotic and hilarious

[MattKingCole · 1/10 · 24 September 2016]

You see that poster? The spaceship looming over Earth and blasting it to smithereens? Well in the film you get a pathetic little thing the size of a house sit about in the air for a while with it's five drones shooting airships.

They say the world has been completely destroyed, but you never see any of it. Everyones always like "civilsation has been completely destroyed". But all the alien do is as follows: turn a few dozen people into 'zombies', destroy a military drone and a couple fighter jets, and... that's it.

The young actors all try and be as sexy as possible. One girl spends the entire second half of the film wearing her shirt unbuttoned, and my belt is longer than the short shorts they all wear.

But I did find myself laughing and crying into a cushion multiple times throughout the film. Most notably at the first scene in the desert where all the actors just start making out for no reason then an old man comes in and says "is this sexy party got an invitation list or can I join in?" then he turns into a zombie.

That should sell it to you.

Amateur Night at the Bijou (Part 1)

[dcarsonhagy · 1/10 · 6 January 2017]

It's very seldom that I treat myself to the viewing of two big turds in one night, but I guess I'm just lucky, huh?

The first piece of excrement is entitled Interstellar Wars (a/k/a Independence Wars: Insurgence). I am thinking those involved with this mess knew from the get-go their attempt at movie-making would bomb so they thought if they gussied up their product by giving it a name that linked it to another movie (Independence Day 2: Resurgence), they might get a few nibbles.

This movie is indescribable. There is BAD, then there's REAL BAD, and then the coup de grace of AWFUL. Here we have BEYOND awful. The plot goes something like this: an alien spacecraft appears from the "dark side of the moon" and has a "special" ray it uses on us land dwellers to turn us into zombies. Oh, and that's it: ONE spaceship with three drones. You will never see an alien. Oh, and it's very reassuring to know our planet is guarded by four people who probably don't have an opposable thumb between them, and one VERY long-in-the-tooth general. The majority of the cast reminded me of porn stars who took a day off and decided to "do something different." When you are billed in the cast as the "hot zombie," kinda' makes you wonder, don't it?!

Not rated, not worth watching--yet you have to see it in order to appreciate its AWFULNESS. If ever a movie deserved a "0" rating, this one is it.

How did they get budget?

[kakhao · 2/10 · 7 January 2017]

I've seen many low budget movies but with good scenario and directing they are pretty nice, but this one, horrible, seems that someone gave money to amateur porno crew and ordered to make sci-fi. Seem that crew wanted good porno but producer drove them to make sci-fi, better crew do what they used to do. The worst sci-fi I've seen ever. Bad scenario (no actually very stupid), bad directing, bad actor play. I wouldn't mention bad SFX due to low budget or maybe not low, I don't know. Seems lots of people were enrolled in this project and no one shouted - STOP, we are wasting money. One of my favorite movies is Idiocracy and seems that this movie is directed by Idiocracy's personages from bad future.

High School Production

[JadedJester · 4 September 2016]

Abhorrently Cringe-Wrenching Experience considering Physical Visual and Mental Pain is not possible.

You have been warned! Dead-Panned dialogue read out by preschool grade Thespians and Visual Effects likely submitted by Animators as their first week assignment project.

The younger actors are overwhelmingly focused on being "on screen" and trying too hard to look pretty and "sexy" if that was even possible. The lines are read in monotone and the story line is frustratingly predictable barely making "B-Grade" genre.

The Older Actors seem unwilling and "forced" by their grand-kids to participate in a school project. The nonchalant attitude might come across as forgivable acting skills. Be warned of shouts and screams at random scenes as the deadpan dialogues could be hypnotic.

It's basically so bad it made ME write a Review??!! WTF is THAT?!

Really ?!? LOL!

[daniel-lachance · 1/10 · 9 February 2017]

Low Budget? Did they have ANY budget .. at all? Come on!

Not even close to low/no budget porn! I was laughing my a** all the way to the end. Yep! I DID looked all the way to the end, for I wanted to know how bad the end was going to be. Exceeded my expectations! REALLY - REALLY bad! Hahaha!

If you want to laugh about bad acting and bad special effects, I DO recommend this film .. HIGHLY!

No offence to the producer, but next time, triple your budget by adding another $100 to it! .. PLEASE !!

Regards, Dan.

Seriously?...

[paul_haakonsen · 2/10 · 30 April 2017]

The low rating of "Interstellar Wars" here on IMDb should be a warning sign to stay well clear of this movie. I, however, opted to sit down and watch the movie regardless. Why? Well, because I was given the chance and thought that it might actually be so bad that it would be fun and good in an odd way...

...But it wasn't! "Interstellar Wars" turned out to be horribly boring. The storyline was so unfathomably moronic and ridiculous that it was an awful affront to witness on the screen. The storyline is about aliens attacking Earth, and people are essentially helpless to put up much of any kind of resistance.

Right, well this has been seen numerous times before in other similar movies, but usually it is handled and pulled off with a better impact and effect in other movies. So don't expect anything grand or impressive from "Interstellar Wars" in terms of storyline and plot.

This being a Sci-Fi movie, then having proper special effects that are realistic and believable is alpha and omega. "Interstellar Wars", however, didn't have that. And the lack of proper effects was definitely a hard blow to the overall movie. Actually, the special effects and CGI that were present in "Interstellar Wars" was so poor that it was straining on the eyes. Furthermore, while on the special effects topic, then the green screen work in this movie was just downright horrible. I will go as far as to saying that this might very well be some of the worst green screen work that I have ever witnessed.

The characters in "Interstellar Wars" were rigid and one-dimensional, and were essentially just cardboard cut-outs milling about in a less than mediocre story. And that makes the audience care not one bit about the characters in any degree.

As for the acting talents starring in "Interstellar Wars", well, let's just say that I can't remember a single performance from what I witnessed here. And I am sure it is because that the actors and actresses had very little to work with in terms of script and storyline.

I am sure that writer Robert Ryan had the best of interests at heart and in mind while writing the script for "Interstellar Wars". And it might have worked out well enough on paper. But translated to the screen, not so much.

"Interstellar Wars" is definitely a movie that will test your mettle and will to the very end. Why? Well, because it was most certainly a battle to see this movie to the end. I managed to do so, but clearly was ready to give up a couple of times along the way.

There is nothing here to make me recommend this movie to anyone, unless you find mind-numbing boring movies interesting. If so, by all means, give "Interstellar Wars" a go.

I would rate it 0, if it was an option.

[litsigns-09635 · 1/10 · 27 July 2017]

OK, I was done watching after only 5 minutes. It's like a bad porn movie, but without the sex, or the fine acting, or the awesome plot writing. The lesbians were cute, but that just didn't make up for it. Clearly this was made as a freshman high school class project. Unfortunately the class was only given 1 day to complete the assignment, and they all got a D.

great for a laugh at a party viewing

[zxzxzx-08587 · 1/10 · 16 February 2017]

when i watch a film with a rating below 2,i expect a laugh.this one was hilarious from beginning to end,apart from out-takes !!! were they the only ones they noticed. the control centre seemed to expand and contract. one of the main characters seemed to drink a lot and zipped through hyper space too often for me. i had to open a 6 pack to keep watching. i am no raving beauty myself but i am afraid i would give a second glance to most of the actors. i could start on the special effects, continuity and everything else but i think i have said everything to get the point, a well deserved .5

Terrible

[wanderer15701 · 2/10 · 23 February 2021]

Don't waste your precious time..what idiot would throw their money away making this??

This is absolutely terrible. Low budget/no budget, no plot.

[FloridaFred · 1/10 · 27 March 2019]

This is the worst "movie" ever made. Perhaps it is somebody's idea of a joke? Film locations include a vacant lot in Bakersfield, an alley in Los Angeles, and a warehouse somewhere. The adult actors are high school kids. There is porn without any sex. The fighter jets are plastic toys hanging by wires. Inane dialogue. Apparently they couldn't afford makeup for the "zombies", so their eyes just turn red and they act mean. And the aliens? What aliens? This thing went straight to DVD to the bargain bin to the trash bin. There is nothing camp or cult about it... it's just pure garbage. Don't waste your time.

Films like this should be illegal

[phantasmda · 1/10 · 3 August 2020]

So this was obviously made to ride off of the back of Independence day 2 and once that film bombed at the box office, this film was renamed to ride off of the back of a film that was a success, Interstellar. Stealing the poster art, movies ideas and making the names as close as possible, as to trick people into thinking this was one of the prior mentioned films.

That in itself should be illegal, it's false advertising, blatant copyright theft and tricks unsuspecting people into thinking it is another film entirely. If this was posted on Youtube it would be given a banned from the site within minutes.

I can't really say much more about the film than has already been said, there are low budget films and there are micro budget films and then there films like this. Films that literally do not have a budget.

It's nothing but stock footage, poorly rendered public domain CGI animations used on a loop, photo's meant to look like real film footage, no really, there are photo's used as buildings and establishing shots that are passed off as video footage when there is clearly no wind or movement in the shots at all.

The sets are pretty much someones house and lots of tin foil to cover walls and make then look....Sci, fi-y. The acting is porn movie level and the writing and dialogue is cringe inducing.

It's awful in every way possible and not in a "so bad it's good" way either. It's painful to watch and people who paid money to view this should be demanding a refund. Lazy, pathetic and just a complete swizz of a film to steal as much money as quick as possible and run for the hills.

Avoid.

Deserves a 10 in its category

[gilcatt · 10/10 · 24 August 2019]

As a magnificent contender for the CHEESIEST MOVIE EVER, depending on your level of recreative subtance intake, it will make you laugh your a.. off - or not.

I don't think this film was ever meant to be taken seriously. It's actually funny to read the "pro" reviews : are they serious ? Relax guys !

Freely available on youtube, no copyrights claims ... almost 2M viewers. You're next !

Not to be taken seriously.

[londonray · 6/10 · 9 October 2019]

OK so this is never going to win any awards, but as a cheesy tongue in cheek low budget stab at making a B movie sci fi flick...... it's really not that bad. Take it for what it is, crack a beer, put your feet up and have a laugh at the silliness of it all.

Oh shame on whoever designed the cover art though. Raises expectations to a level that are never going to be met.

I would have prefered root canal work without any anaesthetic!

[DrTeeth007 · 1/10 · 18 July 2018]

It takes a lamentable effort like this with pathetic acting to appreciate how difficult it must be to be a good, let alone great, actor.

Primary school children would have made a better fist of it than these "actors".

I love science fiction so watched it until the end. BIG mistake as it started badly and got worse. The average rating of 1.7, at the time of writing, is very generous.

Please, whatever you do, do not watch this pile of excrement. Save it for your enemies. Just tie them to a chair and make them watch it.

Independence day on a very very very low budget

[daytamod-38118 · 1/10 · 15 July 2018]

It starts with a modern version of a 1930's spaceship coming from behind the moon, a guy at a space observation facility picks up the signal and informs the facility boss who's in bed asleep. Some kids come across a loony as a spaceships looms overhead, and he claims he was abducted by aliens and they experimented on him. One of the kids happens to be a USAF pilot and heads to his base and tells the other to pack their things.... I'm sorry is this sounding familiar? That was just the first 13 minutes, the rest of it is very much the same as "Independence Day". Out of desperation to convince people it is not, the writers added the plot of aliens zapping people and turning them into zombies every 20 minutes, and when I say zombies, I mean regular looking people with a bit of red-eye.

Story plot - ripped, and filled with so many inconsistencies there were a page full in the first 15 minutes, Actors - terrible, including surprisingly Brian Lally who plays a senior representative of a space facility who is so mind-numbingly dumb a 6 year old could work out the obvious quicker than him. Poor Brian.

I cringed, and laughed throughout, until the end when I regretted wasting 90 minutes of my time.

Plan 9....has nothing on this one

[pietroiudelemn · 14 January 2021]

This is your new "worst everything" movie. At 4:47 mark the signal analysis tells us that "alightment" is good and "time dialtion" is 3/nil. Great start! Actors, dialogues, scenes, sounds, special(!!!) effects....i can't even... Everyone involved in this movie should be convicted

If you have ever seen a B movie, add awful to it and will land on this

[jampittso · 1/10 · 23 January 2018]

If you have not watched this, do yourself a favor and don't. I have never seen a bad movie where I thought every single actor was horrible. Until I watched this!

Very bad

[axel335 · 1/10 · 23 July 2021]

Now this is a bad movie!

This is as cheesy is it gets. The actors are bad even by porn standards, the special "effects" are something a child could have done, the scripts non existent, the actors do super stupid things all the time.

Of course the photo is awful. I can shoot better with my mobile camera. What kind of equipment did they use? The sounds comes and goes. Some actors whisper, some are screaming.

An in all, this movies is totaly worthless. Unfortunatly it was not so fun that i thought it would be after reading the comments here in imdb. You get a bit mentally exhausted of all the stupidity.

Still it can be worth a watch if you are into serioulsy bad movies.

Apples and oranges

[lee-907 · 5/10 · 29 May 2017]

I agree with doctorcd2005: the film is clearly a low budget film and is intended to be that way. Watch the clips during the ending credits to get a sense of the fun the cast and director were having during the making of the film.

I think this is one of the beauties of the internet, many folks can find a way to get low budget films distributed. If I had paid money to see this in a theater, I would have been disappointed, but the same can be said for much of the independently created music.

Yes, the lines are cheesy, and you can predict many of them. But that adds to the fun in my mind.

Yes, the science is way off (I teach high school physics), but so is it in most major productions (thanks to movies like 'The Martian' that actually get the science correct).

I also liked the ending comment by the older scientist. Let's just say, without giving too much away, that they do leave it open for a sequel (not to say I think one should be written).

Zombies, sir.

[nogodnomasters · 8/10 · 10 October 2017]

The film opens with "Star Wars" font. Aliens invade from a wormhole on the dark side of the moon. Most of the film centers around the Kramer family. This is a campy production by design. It is a combination of "Independence Day" and "Plan 9...." The aliens turn people into zombies as people attack people. There is the "Randy Quaid" character and a female president (Kathleen Randazzo) in a blue vested top. The local newscaster wants to know about alien sexual probes and declares, "This is not some big Hollywood production." I had many LOL moments including the 50's style moving screen in the automobile. The hybrid that runs out of gas, but then suddenly works. The spaceship that looks like an ominous family Robinson ship, the newscasters, the idiotic static, terrible acting, the wheels constantly squealing on subcompacts going around corners, starting and stopping, the drinking general (Robert Woods), the geek explaining a wormhole with a sheet of paper, his putdown at the end, and a title that says...this is a spoof.

I thought the film to be very clever for those who like "so good it is bad" and subtle spoofs.

Guide: 1 F-word. Implied sex. No nudity.

Makes movies by The Asylum look like Citizen Kane

[darthcasanova · 17 January 2022]

First off, I love cheesy flicks. Roger Corman, George Pal, The Asylum and MarVista Productions. There's something about cheesy movies that are so bad they're good. But this don't even have that. It's an atrocity. It's not even amusing accidentally. There's fan films on YouTube made by grade school kids that blow this trainwreck out of the water.

There should be a warning on this video that prolonged exposure could lead to brain damage.