The Man Who Saved the World

I try to stay away from the Alamo's repertoire screenings.  There usually of low production quality and, like Dangerous Men, terrible.  This offering from 1980s Turkey, though, was billed as the Turkish Star Wars, and I thought it would be worth a chance.  Hilariously enough, it was.  The film is bad, very bad.  The film is like Star Wars because every single space scene is literally stolen directly from Star Wars, usually as a small out-of-place clip aired repeatedly with bad cuts.  Set in the far future, the film tells the story of two Turkish heroes fighting the evil Wizard, hell bent on destroying the world - again, apparently, since if I followed the plot it's been destroyed repeatedly yet survives both unharmed and blown into pieces.  The Wizard needs to analyze a human brain to know how to defeat Earth and thus lures the heroes to his planet, which turns out to be a large chuck of Egypt that was apparent blown off Earth in a past explosion.  It's populated by literally everything, from robots to stuffed monsters to mummies to stock footage of Star Wars aliens.  Also, there's a population of humans, which the Wizard must not have noticed even though he fights them in his arena.  The locals befriend the heroes and tell them about the Wizard, helping them train to prepare for the repeated and unintentionally hilarious combat.  Obviously it goes well; the death of one hero drives the other forward, who eventually wins by literally splitting the wizard in half with the most amazing karate chop ever.  Then he randomly flies home in the Millenium Falcon.  The end.  If that sounds good, grab some popcorn and a few friends and enjoy this terrible masterpiece.

The Man Who Saves the World

1982, 91 minutes, directed by Çetin İnanç

space, adventure, action, robots, aliens, undead, Turkey, subtitled