PixelRiders

Back in 1973, I have the opportunity to see this film in a lush big screen and back them that was an impressive show. Of course, anyone that has grown up in today's computer animated hyper realistic effects will dissect the movie mercilessly. In the other hand, we have here a film that depicts an event that 35 years later will make a good docudrama in the Discovery Channel. This drama described with precision a nation loosing his homeland to a great cataclysm that literally erase Japan out of the map, dispersing the surviving population around the globe separating families and friends to eventually live at the mercy of surrogate countries. I will love to see this film made again with today's f/x technology. Japanese filmmakers have matured well enough to create one the most shocking films ever.

This movie is a total visual effect banquet, with a very similar plot like Stargate or ID4 on which the main characters face total doom with just a little shred of hope. Sci-fi fans will have a cult in the making. The only parts of the movie the really looks awful is the typical newsreel cuts from old storms events out of CNN or ABC news stock footage archives showing the same roof ripping scenes we all already seen countless of times at the Discovery Channel's million dollar storms. (Maybe they run out of money), Other than that the first hour will be like ID4, lots of jaw dropping effects leaving you very tire for the melancholic second hour of the movie, Roland Emmerich fans will have what they ask for. Fox will make lots of money and an environmental statement will be set. In the other hand conservative SUV drivers will see this like a B-Grade made for TV just to hurt the feelings of the average oil economy supporter. Anyway, I personally suggest if you the type that care about poor planet Earth's Amazon jungle go and see it, otherwise don't bother and skip it, or instead... go and check out Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 to get an eye opening view of where this world is really heading.