Review #371: Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam (Turkish Star Wars).
Cast
Cüneyt Arkin (Murat), Aytekin Akkaya (Ali), Füsun Uçar (Bilgin'in Kizi), Hüseyin Peyda (Bilgin), Necla Fide (Kraliçe), Mehmet Ugur (Yaratik), Kadir Kök (Yaratik), Aydin Haberdar (Yaratik), Yadigar Ejder (Yaratik), and Hikmet Tasdemir (Sihirbaz) Directed by Çetin Inanç.
Review
Oh look, it's May 4th, which means..."May the Fourth be with you", and normally this would be where I would review something Star Wars related, but since I reviewed the main six (which in a few years will be contradicted, hopefully being a good thing) films in the saga, I resorted to what is known as "Turkish Star Wars" (while the title translates to The Man Who Saved the World), with this being the first film from Turkey to be reviewed here. And how was it? You know damn well how it is. It is...terrible. It is the bitter taste in my mouth, much like if someone put sweet sugar into vinegar mixed with vanilla and spinach. The level of bad in world cinema films (with this being the ninth world cinema film reviewed here: #015 - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, #017 - A Fistful of Dollars, #019 - For a Few Dollars More, #167 - Gojira, #256 - Nosferatu, #261 - The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, #309 - Santa Claus, #333 - M) reviewed here rears its ugly head once more (example of this being in that Santa Claus film I just mentioned), and I wonder how anyone could mix Flash Gordon's music with Raiders of the Lost Ark's and then use footage of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope and yet still have a terrible film. Maybe it's the shoddy "filmmaking", with examples being film footage that is really grainy, almost like they didn't do a very good job shooting (and taking footage from other films) this, but at least they hide the obvious trampolines the actor jumps from. The makeup must've been from a costume shop, a really cheap one. The "acting" of movement by the actors is pretty awful, but at least the version I watched had English subtitles to try to make this understandable. Actually, I take that back, it makes the film even more incomprehensible as the logic in this film knows no bounds, making me wonder who the heck unearthed this film and made it known to everyone. But how bad is this? It is bad, but it certainly has its moments of being laugh inducing and at least isn't as strange as Santa Claus or as terribly made like Birdemic or even as terribly made like Manos. This had to have some effort into it (which apparently got somebody to make a sequel) at least. Though I wish this would've been called "Trampoline", that would be funny. Happy Star Wars Day, everyone.
Overall, I give it 3 out of 10 stars.
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