Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Great Film overall

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

For sure, the camera pays as loving attention to the impressive slow-motion explosions as it does to Claudia Jennings' nude form. More so, in fact, and more's the pity. The explosives credit is given to Roger George, who took advantage of every possible excuse to send fireballs roaring into the sky, so if that was you, Roger, we salute you! Otherwise, well, you know you're in trouble when the movie opens with David Carradine riding on horseback in a fur cape and a loincloth, a scene which left me asking myself, "If I had a hand blaster that would vaporize people, would I really bother carrying around a heavy-ass sword?" The answer is, probably, because Range Guides think swords are awesome cool just like everybody else.For most of its brief running time the movie is an unexceptional assemblage of awkward action scenes...for example, when the good guys battle the bad guys on motorcycles, it's rarely clear which stunt guy getting blasted is supposed to represent which actor...and cheesy dialog, although the late great Richard Lynch must have thought it ironic to mutter the lines "A man is a candle...He must set himself afire to create a life." That the movie credits two directors might explain why the final duel, which is set up with a sweeping 360-degree tracking shot, has a sense of style and grandeur which the rest of the movie is sorely lacking, clearly inspired by someone watching a lot of samurai and Wuxia films. Suddenly we realize that wow, this really IS what we were waiting for the whole time, just as David Carradine was waiting for a chance to finally show his stuff.

I saw this movie as a kid at the theater "in the back corner of the mall" that showed those "hardcore R" movies in the late 70's - nervous buying the tix but the theater guy always let us in. Without a doubt, watchable. I'm just getting my kids to appreciate "cinema" and this one is one the list. Most of it is where we saw it versus what we saw but it's now viewable in your home at your calling. Technology. I personally dislike CGI and the proliferation of computers as "film" so these are the type of movies that now define an era gone by. Sad but true. There is an appreciation to be had with this movie that's like watching Shakespeare in the Park with motocross and entertaining foley artist work (albeit laughable).

I distinctly recall this being on Italian TV when I was still a kid and, as far as I can tell, I watched it along with another violent David Carradine sport flick CANNONBALL (1976); however, at this juncture, I couldn't remember any of the details relating to its plot (if so it can be called)! The film is confused (a mix of DEATH RACE 2000 and ROLLERBALL {both 1975}) and dreary post-apocalyptic junk passing off as thrilling entertainment: apparently, the world has been reduced to two warring factions – gladiator-type 'runners' (complete with anachronistic skimpy costumes), among them Carradine, son of a legendary female leader, and vicious motorcyclists determined to eliminate the former, including Richard Lynch (who had already killed Carradine's mother); ruling the planet, then, is an old man slowly succumbing to brain damage! Of course, a tough woman (Claudia Jennings) is bound to figure in all of this – even so, her most notable contributions are a couple of totally gratuitous nude torture sequences! The repetitive action, hampered by the obvious low-budget, isn't exactly exciting and certainly not credible (definitely seeming silly in the age of STAR WARS [1977]); predictably, it all ends with a duel-to-the-death between Carradine and Lynch – no guess as to who emerges victorious either! I guess the film is a harmless way to kill 80 minutes, but there's nothing remotely remarkable about it – which is why it's so forgettable in the first place!

This is the ultimate "get your freinds togeter and yell at movie"!! Agreed the effects are cheap, the acting bad, and the "jet" motorcycles. But it's endering in it's ineptness, defiately worth a rental.