Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

Fluentiama Perfect cast and a good story

Kodie Bird True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

zooeyhall I came across this movie purely by accident (part of a DVD collection of 80's fantasy/sci-fi movies). Watched it last night on my home theater. Watch it, if you have the chance, because it's one of the most interesting low-budget films of the 1980's.This movie has everything: a "mandroid" Terminator-type robot, a gutsy female robotics expert, a Humphrey Bogart/African Queen boat captain, a Ninja warrior, Neanderthal cavemen, an R2D2 clone, southern rednecks (wait till you see "Bayou Betty"!)---and a villain cyberneticist whose real ambition is to travel back in time and become a Roman Emperor! Surprisingly everything holds together very well, and from beginning to end it definitely keeps you entertained. It's a great family film, with action for the kids, and just enough intelligence and wit to make it interesting for the adults.One of the best if not the best "80's B movies". Watch it!

FlashCallahan As part of their experiments in time travel, Drs. Reeves and Takada construct a cyborg with the body of a downed pilot. After the success of the initial experiments, Reeves decides to have the Mandroid scrapped. Not wishing to be taken apart, the Cyborg, lovingly called Mandroid, flees with the help of Dr. Takeda, who is killed for his disobedience. Distraught by the death of his one friend, the Mandroid goes north to America in search of someone who can help him in getting revenge and stopping Dr. Reeves in whatever evil plan he intends to use his time machine for......Well this something I've never seen before. Obviously influenced by The Terminator, our friendly neighbourhood Mandroid just seems like a knock off of Cameron's creation, and is doing nothing more than trying to cash in on that, especially with the time travel element.But then our lovely Mandroid has a car, and the film couldn't be further away from Arnie's star making turn.It's B-movie cheese for sure, with Mandriod dressing up like Phillip Marlowe for one scene, following some blue orb with a very disturbed looking heroine, and then getting on a boat with the real love interest, because I really thought she was into some mechanical stuff.It really doesn't make any sense, and the makers know this, so instead of trying to make the narrative more coherent, they chuck in a ninja, some cavemen, and two henchman so hilarious, thy should have appeared in every film for the rest of eternity.And then we have the bi boss fight at the end, and a finale ripping off the last shot of Disney's The Black Hole.It's a stupid film for sure, but if your like me, an absolute geek when it comes to anything 80's, then this is a must.

Walter Cherry (themusiccitymadman) Ever so often there comes a film that, no matter how hard I try, I can find no fault with. This is one of those films. How can you not love everything about this masterpiece. Andrew Prine is so perfectly cast, against type by the way, as a hard as nails, yet heart of gold, mercenary. The entire cast is really great. The performances are wooden but I feel like that's the point. It is just such an awesome cheesy romp using the kitchen sink method, if you know what I mean, with just everything thrown in for flavor, Just like Fontana says in the movie, "an android, a robot, and kung fu? What is this a comic book." My answer is oh yes it is. There is no doubt I love this movie. And I greatly recommend it to sci fi, action, and Andrew Prine fans of all ages. that's the best part of this film. There is nothing really extreme about this film, as the whole family can really enjoy it together. Great for kids and adults. Cheesy, brainless, and so much fun. My favorite low budget sci fi movie of all time baby!

oscar-35 *Spoiler/plot- 1986, A brilliant scientist who's mastered time travel and recently created a Man-driod (half human and half machine) from a former crashed pilot named John is transformed into a mechanical slave with extensive weapons. The scientist is an evil madman whose sole aim is to rule the world and anybody that doesn't do his murderous commands. As such, Man-driod is out to avenge himself against his creator. He gains the help of a beautiful Air Force scientist. And a Mexican jungle guide, named 'Fontana' helps this pair to get back to the madman scientist's headquarters. Along the way a mysterious Kung Fu expert joins them with his mission to avenge his madman's assistant scientist murdered father, all killed by Dr. Abbot 'madman' Reeves.*Special Stars- Andrew Prine, Denise(Annette) Crosby, Patrick Reynolds, Conan Lee, Roy Dotrice *Theme- Human spirit is stronger than steel and death itself.*Trivia/location/goofs- Filmed in Mexico, look for a politically incorrect flannel shirted butch lesbian character as a 'baddie' in the river traveling scenes. Kung Fu, time travel, robots with human parts, and A-Team excessive explosions occur in this predictably laughable film for its triteness and predictability.*Emotion- An enjoyable but rather crazy science-fiction film full of clichéd genres of the 80's. Annette (Denise) Crosby was still an unknown and was pre Star Trek TNG here. She supplies some of the wet t-shirt titillation in this film. I was half expecting a trite mud-wrestling scene with beautiful blond feminine Crosby and the dark butch lesbian to occur in a badly thought out plot pretext.