Where to begin? These scientists on some sort of oil rig are busy raising a Russian nuclear submarine from the ocean floor. They bring in ... archaeologist I think ... Gioia Scola, an expert in pre- Columbian languages to decipher a weird relic that has something to do with the submarine ... I think. Raising the submarine seems to cause a hurricane which capsizes their rig and perhaps also causes an island enclosed in a plastic dome to rise out of the water. Scola and scientist George Hilton and Michele Soavi and some other folks abandon the rig and encounter mercenary Christopher Connelly and his buddy Tony King on their boat. They all head for the shore of an island (not the one that rose from the sea), only to find it overrun with Atlanteans ... who are, for some reason, dressed like extras from "The Road Warrior" and riding motorcycles and armed with a weird mix of primitive weapons and machine guns. They have killed nearly everyone on the island, so after running into helicopter pilot Ivan Rassimov, who is buddies with Connelly, our heroes try to survive the onslaught of ... post-apocalyptic ancient warriors from under the sea? This movie is almost completely nonsensical, but tries to make up for it with near constant action and gore. The gore is pretty cheap and mediocre and the action pretty silly, but somehow the movie isn't completely awful. When it veers into deep science fiction territory near the end with scenes reminiscent of the Krypton sequences of "Superman: The Movie", you have to kind of admire it's giant balls.
Review of Atlantis Interceptors
