Film Summary DCCXCIII (Saturn 3)

 

So pretty good rule of thumb, don't let Jeffrey Dahmer on to a spaceship.

Or anybody else that might have Psychopathic Tendencies. 

Better yet maybe keep your screening processes open and monitor people who fail your courses. Otherwise you'll end up with Psychopaths killing your Pilots, making their way onto your ships and constructing weird robots who have the same brain wave as the very psychopath who built them.

Speaking of robots this one is the weirdest design yet. It's like somebody looked at that Johnny number 5 and a terminator and said. ''That would make for a great combination.'' 

(Even though this robot predates both of them.)

Anyways this is one of those Weird Science Fiction films that doesn't belong to the modern or traditional era of Science Fiction. 

It's kind of like Star Wars in that regard. It has a lot of modern set design and a couple special effects that put it in the modern era but the whole thing still produced like a movie from 1963.

The acting is nothing to write home about and the character direction is really bad. 

Once again it really adds to that (cheap) 1960s feeling. 

And I'd say it's a shame but really there's not that great of a story. 

There's a crazy guy who makes a crazy robot and then he falls madly in love with random woman that's on the station. 

There could have been some great opportunities for dramatic tension between our two male leads but they're both just there. 

You have all these opportunities to introduce tension. You could have created weird romantic chemistry (maybe brought on by some experimental drugs) or had a cabin fever story where isolation causes people to go a little nutty. 

So many venues for legitimate character drama. 

Instead all we get is a movie about a strange Robot Man who takes on the personality of his creator and then kind of lusts after this random woman. 

Even that goes to the Wayside as of the end of the movie The Robots just there doing things and wanting to conduct random experiments.

Not the most captivating story, I wouldn't recommend it unless you're a fan of Weird Science Fiction films. 

Or if you're really into looking a prop Design.

Also the odd moment of hard gore. 

The first 5 minutes has a guy fall into a vent leading into outer space and explodes into a thousand pieces.