Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Tymon Sutton The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

jodyfranz Watching this movie turns me into a 9year old me. Looking to the stars to be the hero the galaxy needs! So cheesy, so nostalgic soooooo good! I don't think I could recommend this to younger people (and expect them to like it) as the graphics don't hold up. Some of the acting is over the top and cheesy. The plot is thin. This is a fun movie with some tense moments and some pretty good comedy. The acting from the main characters is what pulls the movie together and for me gives it that timeless quality. I don't doubt it helps that I saw this as a kid in the theatre and it holds a special place in my heart.

Eric Stevenson I'm going to admit right now that this isn't the best movie I've ever seen, but it's still quite fun. I knew little about it except that it's plot was alluded to in the "South Park" episode "Best Friends Forever". It features a guy who gets the highest score in a video game, only to find out that the game was a test created by aliens to recruit people from all over the Universe to use starships to fight. Okay, I admit the premise is pretty goofy, but it's still a standard film. The makeup effects are quite good. This was in the very early days of CGI, so I can understand that those bits don't hold up well. The guy is replaced on Earth by a robot duplicate who meets up with his girlfriend, Maggie. The ending is really one of the most heartwarming I've seen in a long time. He goes back to Earth after finding out that they need him in space to rebuild the fleet. He decides he at least wants his girlfriend to join him on his adventures and eventually she goes. Honestly, these are some very heartfelt scenes and they more than make up for slower bits in the movie. I love how they set up the story to continue too. ***

tabaqui-1 This movie is so bad it's just bad. Really bad. Nothing even remotely makes sense, including space, government, military, engineering, interior design and espionage, the sets and aliens looks cheap and unimaginative and gray. The alien recruiter just fly straight to the super secret star base, yet the fresh prince of douche is valuable to the invaders because he has this knowledge. His recruit is never checked for quality and only filtered out when he says he never wanted to be there in the first place, yet Centauri has already been given his money. The dialogue is awkward "tell don't show" exposition most of the time without any effort to make it even remotely enjoyable, the acting is often awful, and the sequel baiting is cringeworthily woven into the main movie leading to 3 main bad guys who don't even do stuff enough for one. The bad guys are pretty much useless and do next to nothing, the heroic self sacrifice of the comic relief is ultimately completely useless, and the love interest pretty much declares to empty air with glittering eyes how much she loves the main character over the burning dead body of the poor shmuck.90 minute movie with end credits, and the main guy only stops caring about saving his own bacon at the 72nd minute and gladly puts everyone he knows and presumably loves in the crossfire to cover his tracks from alien assassins.They retcon the death of Centauri at the end, but never bothered to reshoot any scenes relating to his original death, so that feels super cheap too.

Aleksandar Sarkic As a big fun of the 80's decades, science fiction, and old arcade video games, i give myself a task to watch this movie, and after some time i finally give it a try and i must say it surprise me, it is very solid movie. The movie reminds me on some mix of E.T. Extraterretial, Back To the Future, Starman and even Star Wars, but it is very unique and have own atmosphere. If you love 80's, lighter sci-fi, fantasy and old arcade video games this movie is definitely for you, of course there are some flaws in a movie, but after watching it i felt happy and nostalgic.my grade: 7/10.