I saw this movie back in the mid 1980's on HBO. I never remember it ever showing in the theaters here in Missouri (and it probably didn't). In fact I never heard of this movie until HBO started showing in rotation sometime around 1985. The HBO previews combined with the Title, gave me the preconceived notion that this film was going to something similar to the Road Warrior chalked full of Quiet Riot/Twisted Sister style Heavy Metal music(and maybe some 3D nudity & 3D violence to accompany the heavy metal music). . . . . . . . . . . . And of Course it turned out to be none of that! ! ! ! ! !The Producers and Studio would've both been far-far better off to have made the Heavy Metal music fest/nudity filled /voilent road warrior style film that I had imagined that I was going to see. Never judge a book by its cover, and never set you movie expectations based on the title.(because this one will mislead you).Instead I got a movie that I didn't understand. The plot was simple. -- there have been several reviews where people wrote that this movie didn't have a plot ...well, the truth is that it does, and it's a good plot. The main character was a ranger in a post nuclear waste lands who befriends a girl (Kelly Preston) who watches her father murdered by a green man with a mechanical arm (Richard Moll) and together they set out to bring justice to a a cult leader named Jared Synn. The problem with this movie isn't the plot, it has a good plot, the real problem with this movie is that they just didn't do anything with the plot. The characters are underdeveloped, the acting is poor(very poor), the special effects are about in the same category as a Japanese sci-fi TV shows. The only really good thing I can say about this movie is that it does have a decent music score.

I remember renting this off the back of 'SPACEHUNTER-ADVENTURES IN THE FORBIDDEN ZONE' (Another 1983 3-D post apocalyptic-space romp) and was majorly disappointed. It sucks hard!!! WEIRD SCIENCE is a better killer-mutie movie than this! It's boring as hell, but maybe worth a note, as it's from 80's schlock-obscuri-god CHARLES BAND, who made amazing films like TRANCERS, DOLL-MAN, TERROR-VISION, TROLL, PARASITE(with an early roll for DEMI MOORE), CRAWLSPACE and I think he maybe did THE STUFF too! Either way, this film stinks. I'm surprised to see it stars a young Kelly Preston, but then she was also in her hubbys' BATTLEFIELD EARTH, which this flick is comparable to! URK!!

This was originally shown in theaters in 3D. On the VHS tape I saw the picture is very fuzzy, and the movie stinks to boot. In the future a couple of mercenaries go looking for Jared Syn. They go into "forbidden territory" and are attacked by Richard Moll and his band of misfits. It looks like a "Road Warrior" type film. Probably was more fun in 3D. How Charles Band was able to convince Universal Studios to make this crud is baffling, but then Universal was a shaky studio in the early 80s. Consider this was the same studio that made ET one year earlier. Baffling. I even remember when this came out on video most video stores would only have one copy of it (not a good sign in 1983). Nothing to recommend.

I made a mistake and left this same review under MEGAFORCE. That was a horrible movie too, however the review for that movie belonged under this film. It seems as though most of the reviewers have seen this film on cable, tv or video. I remember going to see this film when I was 14 in 1983. This film along with Jaws 3-D were released in 1983 and I was caught up in the whole 3-D thing. While at the time I found Jaws 3-D to be at least suspenseful I, as a teenager, was going to walk out of this horrible film. The only reason I stayed was because I paid for this movie and I wasn't going to walk out on something I paid good money for. In retrospect I think I did more harm in staying. I don't remember the plot the characters or much else. What I do remember is the I the rage that I felt at having wasted time and money by watching this film. The only way I could ever re-watch this film is if it airs on Mystery Theater so that I can poke fun at this film with the hosts of that show.