Iron Sky: The Coming Race

The original Iron Sky was way better and I was a big fan of that amazing movie. Sadly, after all this waiting, the sequel is not so good.

The plot is bad (half the time I didn't know what the characters are trying to do or find or why), the effects are fine I guess (I love the spaceship scenes) and the jokes are weird and miss most of the time.

It's not a spoiler to tell you what is missing. Yes, the trailers were misleading to a certain degree. There is no Jesus, Putin is there just to dance and half of the scenes in the trailer are not in the movie. The characters have weak or no motivation at all and most of the things that happen seem convenient for the plot.

The movie just exists to exist. It serves no purpose. I only recommend it for the fans of the 1st movie and my suggestion is to rewatch Iron Sky 1 instead of this flick. That said, the very ending was brilliant!

OK the writing was weak, but this was an entertaining flick, for those with the patience to sit through it. If you didn't you missed some hilarious moments.

Moon Nazis, dinosaurs, eternal life, the Hollow Earth, reptoids, and the 10 or so well known rulers of Agartha, I mean it doesn't get any better than this, this is a conspiracy theorist's dream! Don't know why they wasted their money on Tom Green, my uncle Wayne would have been better in that part but I guess he was available since I haven't heard his name in over 10 years.

Less satisfying than it was just plain dumb, but look on the bright side.... its only 90 minutes long and you'll be able to tell your friends you saw probably the most idiotic "movie" ever made.

I loved Iron Sky 1 for what it was, a good SF B-Movie with some very sarcastic and even intelligent political in-jokes. I would rate the first Iron Sky 6/10, or even 7+/10 within its B-movie genre.

This sequel is a big disappointment, unfortunately (and, to reiterate, I write this as someone who loves B-movies and I even donated some money for this sequel during its crowdfunding phase):

• Weak plot, based on a terrible script. No credible bad guy/gal, "jokes" that simply don't work or are tired (for example: "jailbroken" iPhones in 2019?), coupled with wooden acting. However, I don't think the actors are to blame a lot given the incredibly weak script and thin plot they had to work with.

• The special effects are not much better than in the first movie, where did the budget (around 3X the amount of the first movie, 20+ million versus 7-8 million Euro!) end up? For example, the director asked for extra crowdfunding money for some additional "Vril" kill scenes that add next to nothing in the final version.

• On a personal note (since I helped to crowd-fund the project): Weak communication with the funders and supporters, all credibility is broken or lost, especially concerning the prior promises from director Timo Vuorensola. "Normal" moviegoers got to see the sequel weeks or months in advance - and since the movie leaked out to the usual Internet sites, there was and is no sound logic in NOT providing a digital copy (or at least a stream) to all the backers who funded this movie in good faith many, many years ago.

(Partial reason for all the delays: The movie ended up in development hell because of legal troubles with a few members of the FX team from the first movie concerning intellectual property. I will spare you the boring details. This results in more of the jokes and puns that COULD have worked a few years ago being completely outdated as of 2019.).

Recommendation for a third Iron Sky movie (which is at least hinted at when the credits roll):

Get a better scriptwriter, get a better scriptwriter. Did I mention to get a better scriptwriter? And maybe a new director as well.

Seriously, who thought that this was a good or even average script (even for a B-movie)!? To add insult to injury, they even used crowdfunding for the script. A quote from their IGG page:

"In the first phase, we are looking to raise $150 000. This money will be used to produce a full script for the film..."

A film student could have probably written a much better script for $1500. One percent of their budget. I'm being serious (you will likely agree with me once you watched the dreadful movie).

Update on my original review above: It looks like the Finnish production company behind the IS franchise quietly went bankrupt (no wonder given the box office flop of IS 2), therefore a third movie to end the Iron Sky trilogy on Mars looks very unlikely at the moment. Maybe a new company picks up the rights to the franchise and hires more competent people?

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.