ShangLuda Admirable film.

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Bezenby Man, what was the budget on this film? Must have been close to nothing, as not much happens beside Jesse Ventura slugging it out with former England manager Sven Oren Erickson in a wintery landscape with the odd bit of input by the locals or those other two guys in space. This should be the most boring film ever! But it's not! Jesse plays Abraxas, which would be a great name for a toilet cleaner! Here he's an intergalactic cop out to get Sven "I gots to shoot some steroids" Olsen from the Running Man as this guy has impregnated an Earth chick with a Cormator that knows the anti-life formula. Whatever that means. To be honest, it's all the crap these actors have to spew that makes the film so entertaining.Jesse's box has VD, for instance. I cannot go on and spoil all the bewildering one liners this film has to offer, because beyond that you have an ultra cheap sci-fi film with terrible punch ups and not much else. Forget all that and stay for the insane dialogue! It gets funnier as it goes on (and once you realise you are not going to get anything exciting bar two guys duking it out in the snow).

brando647 James Cameron's TERMINATOR is a classic, but you know what it's missing? Jesse Ventura. At least, that's what it appears writer/director/producer Damian Lee believed. Six years after Arnold Schwarzenegger's T-800 arrived from the future to murder Sarah Connor and prevent the birth of her future son, Jesse Ventura's Abraxas was dropped on Earth to…protect the co-mater and prevent…something. Right, well it's not thought out so well but it's surprisingly fun for that exact same reason. Abraxas is a Finder, some sort of intergalactic space cop, and he's assigned to hunt his former partner gone rogue, Secundus (Sven-Ole Thorsen). Secundus is on the hunt for the Anti- Life Equation, a vague MacGuffin that is supposed to give him godlike powers, and the only way to obtain it is impregnating a woman to birth a child (the "co- mater") and then scanning it out of the child's head. I guess. Secundus arrives at Earth and impregnates the unfortunate Sonia Murray (Marjorie Bransfield) before Abraxas arrives on the scene to capture him. With Secundus in custody, Abraxas ignores orders to eliminate Sonia and her freshly born child. And, seeing as how the organization behind the Finders has an arbitrary rule that Finders are never to be executed, Secundus escapes his imprisonment five years later to return to Earth and finish what he started. Now Abraxas must…once again…return to Earth to stop Secundus from retrieving the Anti-Life Equation and using it to…do whatever it is he plans to do with it. Be extra powerful, I guess.ABRAXAS, GUARDIAN OF THE UNIVERSE is hilariously bad. Jesse Ventura doesn't strike me as leading man material, especially in a role where he plays some sort of cybernetic space hunter with cheesy sci-fi dialogue he opts to deliver in wooden fashion. But it's all part of the fun. Abraxas has been a Finder for something like 10,000 years. As Finders, he and Secundus have computers embedded in their forearms called "answerboxes" which seem to act as personal computers and communication devices to keep in touch with home base. Home base in this case is a broom closet with cheap sci-fi computer set dressing from which Abraxas can receive orders from his superiors, Hite and Dar (Dar being played by none other than writer/director/producer Lee). The writing in this movie is delightfully lame, often coming off as something stolen from a high school freshman's creative writing class. Actually, that's a pretty apt description: ABRAXAS is poorly- written TERMINATOR fan fiction. There's so much to love here. Abraxas's absolute inability to interact with normal humans in any way that doesn't come across as awkward and his attempt at blending in with locals using a gym T- shirt, blue jeans, and a trenchcoat. His hidden rat-tail that makes its debut halfway through the film. His very, very, very uncomfortable scene where he's sitting shirtless in bed and invites little Tommy (the "co-mater") to join him as he recounts a heartbreaking tale of two men who were once partners. And that's just our main star.I love Sven-Ole Thorsen in this movie. I guess Thorsen is a big friend of Schwarzenegger who's appeared in bit roles in a bunch of his films, but ABRAXAS gives Thorsen a chance to shine. He's a blast to watch. He combines Schwarzenegger's stoic muscular presence with the occasional outburst of wide-eyed scene-chewing. Secundus is a mental case on a mission in which he'll stop at nothing to acquire the co-mater. Except for breakfast. He'll stop for breakfast, as he does in a bizarre scene where he confounds waitresses by eating the entire breakfast menu (including the bill). No reason for this scene aside from some oddly-timed comic relief, of which the film has plenty. There's even a scene where Jim Belushi makes a cameo appearance as the principal of Tommy's school who insists Sonia pull him out of school because he weirds out the other students. It's all so strange. I don't think the movie knows what it wants to be exactly and the tone is all over the place. But none of that matters because Ventura and Thorsen are just awesome. And, come on, the majority of the film is played over the tones of smooth jazz saxophone that makes the action scenes absurdly surreal. Most of everything in ABRAXAS just doesn't make sense, from the childish sci-fi elements to the filmmakers overall decisions. ABRAXAS is a wonderful mess that runs out of steam a bit in the final act but there are some great laughs to be had.

winner55 the big question is, as professional wrestlers go, does Jesse "the Body" Ventura make a better actor than governor of a mid-West state with economic troubles? And the answer is: No.Whew! for a minute there, I thought we were going to have problems.Except for the Body himself, the acting in this film is pretty good, and the script and direction indicate that there is a real vision here, and that the writer-director has some talent worth developing. The scene in the burning warehouse where the young boy is being tracked down by the bad-guy is genuinely scary.However, the low budget prevented this film from reaching any potential - beyond that of an enjoyable throwaway for Saturday afternoons when the weather's ho-hum and you're looking for some excuse not to mow the lawn. but on that level, as forgettable filler, it's not so bad.

moonspinner55 He's no Laurence Olivier, but Jesse Ventura is very likable as an actor. Low-budget science-fiction B-flick with shades of "The Terminator" involves good cop Ventura chasing bad cop Sven-Ole Thorsen from the future to present-day Canada. The shoestring special effects are pretty much a joke, and the film never comes up with the kind of futuristic scenario depicted on the poster. However, this thing is almost single-handedly saved by handsome Ventura's low-key performance. No, he's not going to win any awards for his acting, but he doesn't force his dialogue and is an appealing presence on the screen. The picture is the epitome of mediocre, it isn't original nor remarkable, but on a minor, TV-viewing level it's decent fare. ** from ****