The Laser Man

This is probably my favorite ny shot movie. I'm not sure how someone can watch this and say it had nothing to offer. The nature of this movie seems so averse to tropes. Really, this movie justifies itself alone by having a scene of father and son double teaming a hot dog, lady and the tramp style. The movie wraps up with a ryuichi sakamoto banger -- so good. If you don't like this movie, you probably didn't spend much of your life being disappointed by asian representation in film.

This movie is, in a word, terrible. I enjoy a wide variety of movies, from the campy to the truly odd. This movie is neither, although from reading the hyped cover I thought it might be interesting. In fact, the material has potential but it was never acted on and, speaking of acting, there are some pretty bad moments of it present here. Lt. Lu - and his semi-intelligent narration - is the only thing going for the movie. It's too bad there was not either better acting and direction or an extreme lack of either so as to be comedically entertaining for the viewer. We have underdeveloped characters here who lend melodrama and inappropriateness to the whole misplaced amalgam. This piece is also very dated to the 80's. I rented this and was, sadly, unable to watch it beyond the half-way point. If you are looking for an awful but funny 80's disaster, this probably isn't your ticket.