Truly Dreadful Film

Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Sci-fighters (1996) is a low-budget Sci-fi that doesn't go anywhere. It borrows heavily from Blade Runner (1982), Runaway (1984), The Hidden (1987), and I Come in Peace (1990). It has a nice feeling to it with the low-budget attempts at a futuristic world, but the problem is the horrible acting of Roddy Piper and a baffling performance by Billy Drago.Roddy Piper was okay in John Carpenter's They Live (1988) but he is just unlikeable here. Billy Drago is like a drug addict here, messy and annoying. In The Untouchables (1987) he was fine, but he is a weak bad guy here, invaded by a parasite and stumbles along. Neither Roddy Piper or Billy Drago can carry a film, even a low-budget Sci-fi one.The plot is ludicrous as well.Recommended: Prison Planet (1992) Also Known As "Badlanders" Alienator (1990) Yor, the Hunter from the Future (1983)

This really is a great B-movie. Roddy Piper delivers his best performance as an actor to date, ranging from comical to serious to romantic to heartbroken.The story is very straightforward, but extremely fun and watchable. Considering the budget they had to work with, you really have to admire what they pulled off in this film.It's very similar thematically to "The Hidden," from 1987. There's a great "unstoppable alien" thing going on here. The chemistry between Piper and the extremely beautiful Jayne Heitmeyer is great. She is fantastic as Dr. Kirbie Younger.I'll be honest...if you're in to serious A-list films, this is no "Citizen Kane." But if you like great B-movie fun, you could do a whole lot worse than Sci-Fighters. It's B-science fiction gold!

I have always been a big fan of Roddy Piper so it was my pleasure to watch this movie.Roddy Piper is convincing in his role as Detective Cameron Grayson and does a good job of proving that he can act.I was pleased to see Billy Drago as Adrian Dunn, the perverted and sicko heavy of the movie who gets his kicks by raping women and then infecting them with a hideous organism he is carrying. You can never go wrong with Billy Drago as the heavy in any movie.The acting of everyone else is tolerable but thankfully the movie centers around Cameron and Adrian who as old friends turned rivals take up the entire story.The action isn't bad, but Sci-Fighters is a typical cop versus bad guy story. However, I would recommend this movie for anyone who likes either Roddy Piper or Billy Drago. They made what little there was of the movie.

Gee, this movie is bad. It took me three attempts to finally get through. Conversations and acting is just "artificial" and horribly bad. Story is far from being complex (least to say). I tried to convince myself that the $7 purchase price can somewhat compensate the missing parts but instead I just understood why it was that cheap. I honestly don't recommend this to anybody unless you'd want my copy... :)