A joint-venture Japanese American Sci-Fi based on Takeshi Kawata's novel Crisis: Year 2050 adapted to big screen, the Earth in 2050 is globalized world controlled by mega company IXL, the scientist predicts a great solar flare that will vaporized the Earth's atmosphere, then the Earth Station through Adm. Skeet Kelso (Charlton Heston) and his second-in-command son Steve Kelso (Tim Matheson) settle a bold plan to send a Shuttle Helios toward to the sun with an antimatter bomb and dropping it by a pod into the sun, however IXL's CEO Arnold Teague (Peter Boyle) disagrees of such diagnoses by IXL's Scientist Hass (Paulo Koslo) and provides a sabotage on Helios mission thru a test-tube woman called Alex (Annabel Schofield).
Then the Helios mission becomes a chaos in so many damages all facilities, the Helios's crew spending their precious tight time trying fix the sabotage instead focusing their efforts in got reach on the sun aiming for accomplish the hard assignment, meantime on Earth many weird occurrences take places, as the Adm. Skeet's grandson Pilot Mick Kelso (Corin Corky Nemec) crashes at desert area, stay adrift and finding a shelter at small cabin with crazy Travis (Jack Palance) warned by earth crew Adm. Skeet landing on earth to track down the whereabouts for his beloved grandson, the old Admiral finding himself in a quandary in those inhospitable environment where several gangs live, whenever he goes his grandson wasn't there anymore.
This chaotic story is saved by the breathtaking visual on special effects, also as usually fine models and props created by Japanese high patten, a superb casting weren't enough good to overcame a glitched storyline as Tim Matheson, Dorian Harewood, Paul Carr, Brenda Bakke and so for, this shameless mix copy of Mad Max-Dune-Black Hole alike, overall a fine entertainment, hope it should be release on DVD someday to enter in my Sci-Fi collection.
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First watch: 2023 / How many: 1 / Source: Youtube / Rating: 6.
Then the Helios mission becomes a chaos in so many damages all facilities, the Helios's crew spending their precious tight time trying fix the sabotage instead focusing their efforts in got reach on the sun aiming for accomplish the hard assignment, meantime on Earth many weird occurrences take places, as the Adm. Skeet's grandson Pilot Mick Kelso (Corin Corky Nemec) crashes at desert area, stay adrift and finding a shelter at small cabin with crazy Travis (Jack Palance) warned by earth crew Adm. Skeet landing on earth to track down the whereabouts for his beloved grandson, the old Admiral finding himself in a quandary in those inhospitable environment where several gangs live, whenever he goes his grandson wasn't there anymore.
This chaotic story is saved by the breathtaking visual on special effects, also as usually fine models and props created by Japanese high patten, a superb casting weren't enough good to overcame a glitched storyline as Tim Matheson, Dorian Harewood, Paul Carr, Brenda Bakke and so for, this shameless mix copy of Mad Max-Dune-Black Hole alike, overall a fine entertainment, hope it should be release on DVD someday to enter in my Sci-Fi collection.
Thanks for reading
Resume:
First watch: 2023 / How many: 1 / Source: Youtube / Rating: 6.