Supersonic Man DVD - Action Sci-Fi Movie for Home Entertainment & Movie Nights

If you thought Puma Man was goofy, wait til you get a load of this guy. Supersonic Man is Kronos aka Paul who is played by two different guys, one of an Italian actor Antonio Cantafora who looks like Franco Nero at times, the other a Spanish actor and bodybuilder Jose Luis Ayestaran, both who are billed under fake names like Michael Coby and Richard Yesteran. Kronos is an alien sent to save earth for some reason from the evil of Dr. Gulik ( played with ham gusto by Cameron Mitchell, who is also unfortunately dubbed here), why the aliens care is never explained fully, but apparently they do care about the earth being safe against whiny mad scientists that at times sound like Donald Trump. Seriously, Gulik sounds like the man to a tee, he calls people insults all the time, calls them losers and idiots and every 4th/5th grade insult in the book and throws temper tantrums like the Donald too. The only thing missing is the extreme racism. Which only adds to the joy when Supersonic Man beats the tar out him constantly. Seriously, Kronos is unstoppable basically, they can't shoot himand trying to drown him doesn't work either. So most of the movie is the utter delightful bashing of Mitchell's thugs by Supersonic Man, some of it delightfully campy as well. Gulik seems more preoccupied with proving how nasty and stupid he is, he's kidnapped a scientist to make him work for him, the scientist proceeds to spend the whole movie telling him how insane he is and getting constantly insulted and bitch slapped by temper tantrum prone bad guy Gulik. Who especially loses it when he gets beat and he loses men.This Italian/Spanish production is sure a lot of fun, a cheap Superman knock-off with toys used a lot for special effects and a weird late 70s vibe to everything plus a wacky drunk wino with a basset hound as a comic relief who seems to be stalking people or something, sitting outside the leading woman's house all the time panhandling. Directed by the glorious mastermind behind Pieces, Slugs, Pod People.War of the Robots is on the other hand, sort of a slog to sit through. A cheap Star Wars/Star Trek rip-off from Al Brady aka Alfonso Brescia is a complicated movie about a missing scientist and his female partner (Malisa Longo) while future earth faces destruction. The leadership sends Antonio Sabato (Jr.'s dad) along with hottie Yanti Somer and his crew out to find them, getting them into a mess of trouble with humanoids and other aliens. The movie gets to a shocking twist which changes basically everything and yes this movie pulls no punches as crew members are picked off one by one nearly including the ship's doctor who dies a stupid death (imagine Bones McCoy dying this way). A long film full of blaster fire and a nearly 30 minute it seems space ship battle at the end. The Body Count is high in this flick let me tell you. But it is rather tiresome compared to the likes of Luigi Cozzi's Star Crash.This the second movie in Brascia's trilogy of space junk he did in the wake of Star Wars, the other two being Cosmo: War of the Planets and Star Odyssey. Cosmo was a thinly veiled Planet of the Vampires remake and Star Odyssey felt more like Star Wars compared to this which felt like Star Trek. Though I think he also ripped off Anthony Dawson's Gamma One movies from the 60s too here.Malisa Longo who you might remember from Way of the Dragon keeps her shirt on basically, so no nudity here, the only one that kind of looks great is Somer who is always running around in a spandex outfit with a pixie cut hairdo. Her, Longo and Sabato have some love triangle thing going on by the way in this thing.This isn't as boring as Cosmo, but it's pretty long going, I mean some editing might have been needed to make this movie I don't know easier to gulp down. You know compared to Supersonic Man which runs a brisk 88 minutes, this is a long 100 minute slog.