An excellent film well acted, Directed good all round story. Excellent special effects for the time. I have watched it several times over the years and I enjoy it every time.

Would love to c this remade but not like Jump st or bay watch On a more action kind instead of unfunny rubbish. Def be grt The rock yea But even staham too Or ??

There are a few Sci-Fi movies that still hold up as great entertainment, despite being decades old. The Last Starfighter is one of them. I remember when I first watched it in the theater and the joy it gave me; a true 80's movie experience with popcorn! You felt that even you could be Alex Rogan, the boy from Earth who travels to another solar system to fight for freedom. It also had a theme of not letting great opportunities pass you by, of being more than everyone expects of you. And the movie was just plain FUN! I dismiss people who always spout "It's just a Star Wars rip-off", as if Star Wars is the only 80's Sci-Fi movie worthy of any consideration. I think Star Wars paved the way for movies like TLS to be made, at least that is my assertion. The Last Starfighter is a great family movie as well as a neat experience. It did make history as the first movies to use computer graphics for rendering all spaceships and space battles. Go check it out!

Lance Guest, Dan O'Herlihy, Catherine Mary Stewart, Norman Snow, Dan Mason and Robert Preston star in this 1984 sci-fi film. Guest (Halloween II) plays Alex Rogan, a teen who wishes his life could change and get away. Soon, he gets his wish when he meets alien, Centauri (Preston) who asks for his help in saving the universe. Centauri reveals that he is the creator of arcade game, "Starfighter" that Alex scores high on and that it's a test to find skillful starfighters throughout the galaxy. Alex is taken to planet, Rylos where he finds himself in a real space adventure battling the evil, KO-DAN aliens. Alex becomes the last starfighter after the base, Frontier is destroyed. The late, O'Herlihy (Halloween III: Season of the Witch) plays alien navigator, Grig who helps Alex, Stewart (Weekend at Bernie's) plays Alex's girlfriend, Maggie Gordon, Snow plays Xur, a traitor of Rylos and Mason plays Lord Kril, leader of the KO-DAN. It's funny how the director, Nick Castle, Guest & O'Herlihy were also featured in the Halloween films. This is a good 80's sci-fi flick with a good cast, great score & neat effects I recommend.