6/10
Nuclear testing rules!
29 September 2014
Ah, the A bomb. When you want to clear a region fast, nothing else does the trick. Our hero knows this. Why, he's up in the air watching a-bombs blast the hell out of stock footage when his plane is brought down and he vanishes. His buddies, army folk, wife and nosey FBI all think he's a goner, but then he turns up at the army base with no memory and a scar on his chest.

Everybody's flummoxed. Our hero then starts doing weird things, like getting all jazzed up about the next A-bomb nest, and trying to steal secrets to put under a rock in the desert (!). He also sees these weird eyes floating about. But why? Only a shot of good old commie confessor will do the trick.

This one has it all, if 'all' means aliens with ping-pong ball eyes and weird eyebrows, giant insects and snakes, and about as much exposition from a bad guy as you can get in a film. Just as well, as the aliens disappear for the rest of the film (but there's still plenty of action).

Although the make up on the bad guys is hilarious, I didn't particularly see this is a 'bad' movie, just a nice time capsule before the horrors of Chernobyl sullied the good name of nuclear technology. It doesn't last long either, so that always helps.
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