Space Warriors 2000 (TV Movie 1985) Poster

(1985 TV Movie)

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Pretty terrible
CobraMist23 April 2020
Warning: Spoilers
This was pretty rough to get through. It's apparently the combination of scenes from several Ultraman TV Shows as well as two movies (one of them a Thai/Japan co production). There's also a wrapper about an American kid who "sort of" acts as a protagonist(his presence isn't really felt except for these scenes). The resulting product is a mess. I've seen some spliced together efforts ( Shogun Assassin (1980) , Invasion: UFO (1974), etc) that I really enjoyed as they provide highlights while still giving a coherent plot. This movie, however, has so little coherency to it that it's almost impossible to understand what is going on. The dubbing is littered with sophomoric jokes that feel lazy and/or dumb. Even the credits are worth mentioning for being, as one reviewer put it, rather insulting. I think the only saving grace is that you do get to see a lot of monster costumes as it does play out like an Ultraman montage.
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Ludicrous nonsense
xanada7325 April 2000
I have never seen a film that put so little effort into restraining it's gluttonous plot excesses or achieving any kind of coherency. This movie just rambled on until it degenerated into a jumble of silly names, pseudoscientific mumbo-jumbo and idiotic mysticism. Something about 'supermen' fighting each other with 'exo-power' against the 'Great Zog.' It was set thousands of years in the future, but any technological advancements made in that time seemed entirely restricted to space travel. Characters who had been killed off suddenly appeared again, miraculously resurrected in a manner never explained to the audience! Some characters shadowed others around and always beat them to their destinations by several days, even though their equally powerful targets had sped to said destinations as fast as was humanly possible. One protagonist was always hanging around in places where he ought to have been killed by his enemies, and was never noticed until said enemies had concluded a conversation with someone else; the other needlessly slaughtered dozens of innocent people, but was nonetheless portrayed as some kind of messianic figure who attains enlightenment through reincarnation (by means of a woman who had been killed by him and buried at a funeral survice, but was at the last minute and without any justification revealed to have been 'saved' by the initial protagonist). Needless to say, none of it made any sense, and it's not worth trying to figure it out. How a team of intelligent animators was duped into spending nine months of their lives bringing it into existence when no one in their right mind would ever bother watching it is beyond me.
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