First I should tell that my reviewing is biased. I am big Robert Z'Dar fan! He always make such many great amazing action movies in 1980s and 1990s! This movie title is "Soul Taker" stars Robert Z'Dar. He plays a space alien that try to get people souls. Its his job! But he also has a coworker who does not like get souls as much as Robert Z'Dar. So this effects on their relationship. As always Robert Z'Dar is acting at his best! His hair is of long blonde and perfectly suits the character! There is also audio effect to make his voice sound like space alien which was really cool! If you like Sci-Fi classics and Robert Z'Dar then I think you going to love "Soul Taker"! 8 of 10 stars ********

Natalie McMillan (Schilling) is the "rich girl" in her small town, and Zach Taylor (Thomsen) is the poor local mechanic. Before this West Side Story/Romeo & Juliet-like romance can get off the ground, their buddy Brad Deville (Fralick), who appears to be a cross between a lunkhead and a meathead, drives drunk and they all die (?) - but before "The Man" (Estevez) can collect their souls, they realize what's going on and they all run away from The Man and his partner (again a ?), Angel of Death (Z'Dar). This race between life and death intensifies because Natalie reminds The Man of a woman he used to love in a past life. Who will win - those who collect the souls of the recently deceased, or mulleted, 37 year old teens on the run? Okay, we all know Soultaker was famously tackled by the MST3K guys. Let's try and put that aside for a moment, if possible, and realize that it is indeed AIP April once again, so we have to put in our two cents as well. Rather than mercilessly bash the poor movie, we choose to dwell on the positive: the first half. Any scenes with Brad Deville - and David "Shark" Fralick does indeed look like a dude named Brad Deville - are gold. The "Summerfest" sequences provide solid entertainment/laughs/80's nostalgia, and the presences of Robert Z'Dar and Joe Estevez are comforting and familiar. To see them working and walking together as an "afterlife team" was pretty cool. And we applaud the effort all around, even if the final result is (pleasantly?) amateurish. But that's what we look for. Not everything has to be absolutely perfect and we cherish the quirks. But it's not all a Summerfest bash… The second half of the movie is boring, dull, and repetitive. Even the powerhouse team of Z'Dar with his unintelligible electronically-lowered voice and Joe Estevez with his black guyliner can't remedy that. Their characters are supposed to be menacing because of these things, not to mention their black coats. They also disappear and reappear quickly thanks to what can only be described as "Blip-cuts". There's also a green special effect that will remind you not of Slimer from Ghostbusters, but of his Hi-C Ecto-Cooler. Zach Thomsen gives Billy Warlock a run for his money, and Vivian Schilling, interestingly enough, is credited with screenplay/story on the film.So as a glimpse of the end of the acid-washed 80's, with plenty of 80's coolguys and coolgirls and their various fashions, Soultaker has some value for that reason alone. Pounding, generic 80's rock/metal seems central to their lives, though the end credits song, "Somewhere in Paradise" by Karen Lawrence, would seem to contradict that. Yet again we have a movie of two halves - the first being better, of course - but it's largely sunk by the dull second half.

SOULTAKER just proves that you don't have to watch the un-MST3K version in order to give an honest-to-God review. However, the cinematic masochist inside of me has to get this ghoulish feathered fish off my back before it's too late.Martin Sheen's forgotten younger brother Joe Estevez is given a task by the lantern-jawed Angel of Death (Robert D'Zar) to kill five twenty-something actors pretending to be teenagers by 8:00 tonight. The targets consist of Brad the hard-rocking mullet head, Tommy the oldest teenager in cinema history, Zack the C. Thomas Howell-lookalike, Candice the token girlfriend, and last but not least, the rich girl Natalie played by the writer Vivian Schilling.As the last two surviving victims, Zack and Natalie must race against unlimited time to get back into their bodies before midnight. Why is it always midnight? The already-outdated effects in the film are indeed amateurish and laughable. The cinematography is above average, and the editing is just worse. Nevertheless, the female lead's script is the main culprit.Although her script does have an interesting premise, Schilling is way too young and inexperienced to pull off a story such as this. I must say that she is a naturally beautiful-looking actress who deserves much more than this even if she looks like Tonya Harding. On the plus side, Estevez gives a decent performance as a black-clad baddie who sucks the souls out of dead bodies for a living. And what the hell is up with that slow-motion strip-teasing bathroom scene anyway? Outdated special effects, self-important script, bad acting, and '80s hair metal cheese certainly makes SOULTAKER a misfire of bad filmmaking at its worst.My apologies to Michael Rissi.

When a movie's claim to fame is that Martin Sheen's younger, less known brother stars in it, you know it's not gonna' be a real good one. "Soultaker" is a low budget, silly film about a group of 20-something year olds being pursued by an angel of death. It's a stupid movie, but it is pretty entertaining, and even somehow slightly likable in it's stupidity.The plot in the film is very small, and it's stretched about as far as it possibly can be. Joe Estevez isn't much of an actor, so luckily for the audience, he has very few lines and his role in mostly just him walking. This movie really feels like it was trying to be a horror/fantasy franchise, considering it has the same plot layout as a slasher. 4 characters, each dies one at a time...will any live? Who really cares. Though it sounds like I hated this, I didn't. I just didn't like it very well, but I was interested through most of it, so I guess that counts for something.My rating: * 1/2 out of ****. 90 mins. PG-13 for language, violence and nudity.