Leprechaun 4: In Space (1996 Video)
1/10
What a derivative and incomprehensible mess this flick is.
20 July 2002
A brain-damaged amalgam of many other SF movies. Egregious continuity errors: in one scene, the villain is turned into a giant, but when he next appears he's his usual size, with no explanation why; he's later huge again. One troop is cornered by a leprechaun/spider mutant (think "The Fly") and gets trapped and slimed, and the next we see him he's back in action, clean as a whistle; then later he's again snared and slimed. The ship's reactors are set to self-destruct in fifteen minutes (think "Alien"); while the computer blares out the countdown on some parts of the ship, it goes unannounced elsewhere. While the unit (think "Aliens" and "Starship Troopers") goes into action with armor and helmets, Sgt. Metalhead goes in without helmet. Why? Probably so the audience won't forget his half-metal head. There's a master mad scientist whose function is even more incomprehensible than the rest of this mess. The leprechaun villain keeps getting wiped out and keeps rematerializing. (H.G. Wells once said, "If anything is possible, nothing is interesting.") I'm HOPING the channel I watched it on simply got the reels loaded out of sequence.

A Road Runner & Coyote cartoon makes more sense.
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