With the advent of space travel, many space stations are sent into the cosmos. It's New Year's Eve.
In some remote future, we need to head off some mysterious mind-controlling aliens. So, a wayward space station, and some a host of other ingenious contrivances bursts the budget for this economy mode sci-fi battleground.
I couldn't enjoy this movie at all. I couldn't even laugh at the poor acting or the toy rocket ships, as I do in other early sci-fi movies.
In this, the second installment in Antonio Margheriti's 'Gamma One' tetralogy, Earth is threatened by incorporeal glowing green energy-beings ("Diaphanoids") who need humans to serve as hosts. Only heroic Commander Mike Halsead (Tony Russel) and his crew stand between mankind and assimilation.
The first rule of a plot is that it should make some sense. There are so many holes in this thing that it defies any sort of credibility.
I have no idea if my title above constitutes a spoiler.As a serious movie, I give it a 1.
It's not even close to being the best spaghetti science-fiction film ever made - far from it, in fact - but Antonio Margheriti's War of the Planets is another refugee from TNT's 100% Weird that recently popped up commercial free (and sadly pan and scan) on Turner Classic Movies. Starring American expat Tony Russel - who got his screen start as a bartender in Elvis' King Creole - as the commander of Earth's space forces, War of the Planets is a very low-budget story of alien invaders attacking our solar system from their base on Mars.
(aka: WAR OF THE PLANETS) rw0088816 Sardony "Die! Die!
C'mon! It's so bad that it's almost funny!
