Load of rubbish!!

Instant Favorite.

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

What were they thinking? This isn't even one of those "it is so bad it is good" kind of films. And it is honestly (and thankfully) forgettable.

Farrah Fawcett, Harvey Keitel, and (today 101 year old) Kirk Douglas together? If nothing else, the casting makes it worth the brief runtime of this dark, bizarre campfest. People freaking out about 63-year-old Douglas' naked butt? You'd better hope you look that good when you get there...which is part of the whole point of this flick. Douglas is holding it together, basically a superman for his age...but it doesn't matter. Age is winning. He's failing. And a fucking giant robot wants his gal. There's pathos here, real pathos under all the shitty acting, and the only disappointment, for me, was that Elmer Bernstein, the great, underrated Elmer, didn't step up and add something to the score. And Keitel's dubbed dialog is weird...but wow, that young Keitel sure does look compelling as hell. There are about a million worse ways to spend 1.5 hours.

This film isn't as bad as some people would have you to believe.Unfortunately, It isn't very good either. That is one of it's problems. If it had been a little worse than it ended up it might have been better in a more incredulous, but more memorable, way. You can see it wants to be either Demon Seed' or 'Alien' but comes close to neither or even a parody of them (which could have worked). Unfortunately, it is not imaginative enough to be the former or frightening enough to be the latter. The films performers are left floundering.As ever Kirk Douglas is over the top. This time in a sort of Action Grandad role which I presume he thought would show him (at 62 years old)still capable of playing energetic, love interest, leads. Unfortunately, the part isn't meaty enough to let him give his full throttle Kirk Douglas macho-man big screen shtick. Meanwhile Farah Fawcett is wasted. Yes, of course, she's good to look at, and although never a great actress, FF does, often, have a notable presence. This time she is just decoration given baby doll nighties and bra-less t-shirts to wear. Rather than being a main protagonist with a distinct character she is mainly just good to look at. I didn't really care what happened to her except, perhaps, that I'd miss the occasional flash of flesh . The biggest puzzle is why did Harvey Keitel agree to this? He does his best to keep the role believable but fails and once again a worse performance, or a worse actor, in the role may have helped make the film better by making the part more extraordinary but Keitel does just enough in the part to give it any credence but can't make it memorable.These are major flaws and Saturn 3 is therefore a film that you would only watch either because you like the actors and watch them in any roles or just fancy a bit of science fiction whimsy that won't task your brain to heavily. Perhaps, it is a film that needs a big budget remake. It could work!

By most metrics, this is a bad, bad movie. The plot is simple and predictable, the acting is bland and terrible, the action is boring, the special effects are bad (one guy explodes into a bunch of ceramic), the voices are dubbed, and badly, plus Harvey Keitel is dubbed over by someone else (like wtf), and all the characters are one-dimensional. I only found this movie because of references in MST3K, "Somethings wrong on Saturn 3," which ought to say a lot in itself, and could have been riffed on that show if not for the violence.BUUUT, whats good about the movie is more meta than the specifics, like they had a cool idea but failed on the actually making a movie part. Good movies are usually best understood when trying to imagine the vague thoughts of the creator(s) that caused them to make the movie in the first place. It's all about Benson, and how he, and the society he represents, are essentially Hector, a robot made horrible by it's blood tubes and a disembodied brain. These people think they can be pure and efficient and productive, but all that pesky human stuff can't be suppressed and ends up becoming horribly warped.