Fast forwarding my way through Alienator (1989) was my only hope for surviving this amateurish piece of garbage. From mostly wretched amateur acting (with exceptions for Jan-Michael Vincent and well-respected character actor Leo Gordon), to a story more told than shown, through an illogical plot convoluted for no reason, characters who suddenly sprout powers when it’s convenient, and terminating at special effects that are buffoonish at best (including a rip-off of a Star Wars light saber, which ends in quite the gory climax for an obscure character that, just to make it a triple-play, has a more than passing resemblance to James Doohan of Star Trek fame), the attentive viewer is left aghast at what might have been an interesting movie. Juvenile, stereotypical characters, bad segues, lapses in story logic, the best I can make of it is that someone promised a movie vehicle to Jan-Michael Vincent, and they delivered some film with some shadows on it.
And then, just for fun, the channel on which it was broadcast, Comet, found it not only necessary to cut out the nastier language, but also to blur out the hips of the female assassin sent to kill the escaped prisoner. Whatever for? She may be skimpily clad, but clad she is. And then they’d blink it on and off as she moved through shadow, which just evoked some choked laughter.
Folks, don’t bother with this one unless you’re a Jan-Michael Vincent completist. Or possibly a Fox Harris completist, who apparently appears in this film, although I have no idea which role he plays. I ran out of interest.
