Iron Sky: The Coming Race

Possibly the stupidest film I've ever seen. I don't necessarily mean that's a bad thing.

The first Iron Sky took a great premise, and injected it with great characters, witty dialogue, great action scenes, and fantastic special effects. So ever since seeing it, I've eagerly anticipated the sequel.

The Coming Race builds on the theories of Nazi esotericism, and promises a lot. Unfortunately it delivers very little. Virtually everything that made the first film what it was, is entirely missing in this sequel.

The characters are flat. Even the characters reappearing from the original are flat. There's absolutely no humour in this film. I didn't laugh once. Not once. The pacing is all over the shop, leading to what can only be described as a jumbled up mess. The annoying expository voice over from the film's main protagonist scattered throughout the film is simply cringeworthy.

The CGI is this films saving grace, and is quite fantastic for the budget That along with the costumes and set designs, are probably the only saving graces of this dire film.

A film that features spaceships, Nazis and dinosaurs, should hit the target every time, but The Coming Race misses the target by a country mile.

After I'd watched this I actually felt quite angry. That sort of anger someone feels when their Tinder date doesn't match their profile picture in any way shape or form. Extremely disappointing.

If the silliness of the first film looked adequate and looked like some kind of simple sarcastic humor. Second film tries to play on the same note, but did it disgustingly. Flat silly humor on banal phrases, replaying of heroes, and some unhealthy craving for patterns about Russian behavior.

I gave the first Iron sky a 8/10. For a crazy plot it somehow all worked really well, good humor. Some likable characters. And it felt cohesive.

The sequel on the other hand feels like a bit of a mess. You can see the potential for a better film and it's pretty frustrating. The VFX for a 20 mil budget is pretty good. But the plot is just ridiculous and not in a good way like its predecessor. Most of characters were not funny and badly written. It doesn't make sense in really badly written ways that i feel could've been easily changed to make it a bit better than it was and not so by the numbers with plot holes that take you away from immersion in the wacky world they're trying to represent. Personally if i wrote this film, I would've taken it in a entirely different direction. All the pop culture references mostly didn't work as intended, instead of being funny it was just cringey. And the ending was just dumb and rushed.

But I didn't hate the film, I was mildly entertained, enjoyed the visuals/world they created and because i liked the first film quite a bit, perhaps im being a little forgiving when giving it a 5/10. I can understand why people would vote it lower tho.

A younger, high audience may get more enjoyment out of this. I'm getting older and don't smoke bud anymore. Perhaps that made a difference in my enjoyment, I dunno.

I'd say to give it a go if you liked the first film, make your own assessment. I can imagine there will be some people who will like it. Its definitely not totally terrible.

This was a must see movie for me. Long time fan of Star Wreck and Iron Sky. I had intentionally avoided seeing spoilers and reviews but since there was almost no ads anywhere to tell that movie is out I was skeptical that this is maybe not such an event as the first one was.

I'm not entirely sure why the movie was so awful but at least the story or just the script overall was so badly written that I half the movie I had my mouth open. It's like the movie is mix of scenes where there's plenty of actors and suddenly all the extras are missing in next scene which doesn't make any sense. There's no logic in some parts and there's some very poor acting which ruins the mood or a joke. I guess all the budget went to special effects and not enough to writers.

I can only recommend this movie if you are a fan who wants to throw their money away to keep future generations of dreaming making big scifi movies.