Redundant and unnecessary.

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

In all honesty, I'm probably being a bit generous with the rating here, but, though I've only very recently started writing reviews on IMDB, I figure I'm not going to rate something I do still kind of enjoy lower than a 5. Maybe my ideas will change about this as time goes on. Right now, I can't say. This movie is not boring, even though it's rather inept, and even laughable. I've seen almost all of these Bresccia space movies from 77/80 now and theyr'e all real bargain bin stuff, but this one is probably the best of the lot. Whether that is of any significance, depends on you. Regardless, all these films are of the sort of quality that makes the Gamma 1 films from 10+ years before seem like works of majestic artistry. You should probably be scared by that assertion.I can just imagine some drunk producer, having just gotten out of a viewing of Star Wars in 1977, calling up poor Alfonso on the phone and shouting, "WE GOTTA MAKE A MOVIE LIKE THIS! GET TO IT!" Alfonso, being a patient, quiet sort of man (ok, I'm really guessing, here), could not make his gentle queries about budgetary concerns and such heard. So, it's off to the junk yard he goes, to pick up any vaguely electronic-looking odds-and-ends he can find. Armed with this and a few bottles of super-glue, and a lot of wire, he proceeds to assemble his motley band of space marines.So, I know it's been mentioned before, but the editing of this film is weird, and makes it seem almost more artistic than it probably is. Scenes from the beginning of the film are never explained, or the consequences only kind of reveal themselves at the very end. A few of the scenes might be out of order -- or they might not be. it's up to you to decide. The result is -- actually kind of cool, in a loopy, doped-up way.What's interesting, too, is that while this may have been intended as a Star Wars cash-in, it's really not much like Star Wars at all. What this resembles, to me, is the original Star Trek series crashing messily into Barbarella. So, basically, this film , ather than being in any way on the cutting-edge of a new sci-fi trend, already looks, feels, sounds -- ten, or even fifteen years, out of date. The fact our man Al was probably asked to do the best he could to simulate Star Wars and came up with -- this -- is actually quite something, isn't it?Also, there are about three trick endings, each more hilarious than the last. At the finish, I swear I almost felt like clapping. They had some balls to pull this off, I'll say that for 'em. if you're gonna watch one of these turkeys, let it be this one.

Despite the fact that they were produced during the same year , "War of the Planets" had nothing whatever in common with "Star Wars". While the former was definitely an "A-Picture", "War of the Planets" is strictly "Grade-Z". The story is nearly incomprehensible, the writing terrible, the acting wooden and the production values about what one would expect in a high-school play. Some cheesy science-fiction films can be so bad that they are entertaining. however, this example of the genre is simply...bad. About all this film accomplishes is to make the viewer appreciate just how good things like "Star Wars", "Star Trek" and "2001: A Space Odyssey" actually were.

STAR WARS has a lot to answer for. When George Lucas' film first came out, it kick-started the sci-fi genre after years of po-faced shenanigans in the wake of 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY; it revitalised the serial-adventure genre, leading to a plethora of 1980s films like INDIANA JONES; and it 'inspired' a ton of rip-offs around the globe. No country ripped it off more than Italy, and director Alfonso Brescia is best known today for his series of insanely awful attempts at 'space operas', done with no budget, no intelligence, no reason. COSMOS: WAR OF THE PLANETS is one of his worst, an utterly cheesy, often indescribable attempt at an adventure flick that makes no sense whatsoever. At the same time, watched in the right mood, it's a hilarious movie, often providing a ton of so-bad-it's-good entertainment along the way. It's no Turkish STAR WARS, but it comes close at times.Where to start? Our "heroes" (including a token black guy who bites it) wear tight-fitting uniforms (great on the girls, not so great on the guys) and even tighter-fitting red helmets that make them look ridiculous. Later on, there's an alien guy who looks like a cross between Yoda and a Hari Krishna, and an absolutely amusing fight between him and an ugly, skin-peeling vampire guy (possessed by a computer?) that seems to come out of a horror film rather than a cheesy sci-fi flick. But it's the special effects that make this movie so very BAD: space scenes where stars are lightbulbs; computers made of cardboard; a killer robot as bad as the ones in Turkish flicks, resembling a big version of those walking toys, which is destroyed by somebody chucking a stone at it; green-painted alien beings; the worst model spaceship since, well, ever and plenty more besides.Square-jawed actor John Richardson carved a career out of these movies and he's as wooden as they come. The rest of the cast aren't much better. Yanti Somer appeared in even more, probably because she looks so good in her tight-fitting costumes. But if awful acting, stilted dubbed dialogue, appalling direction and the worst SFX seen in a film are your cup of tea, then by all means give COSMOS: WAR OF THE PLANETS a go!

Captain Alex Hamilton aka "Mike Leighton (John Richardson) and his team of astronauts land on an alien world and agree to help its population battle a cyber entity that has taken control of the planet," according to the DVD sleeve. Re-titled "Cosmos: War of the Planets" for English language listeners, this wretched film features the standard science fiction storyline involving a futuristic society being taken over by the machines it created. Those involved must have been asking, "What button do I have to push to get me out of this lousy picture?" * Anno zero, guerra nello spazio (1977) Alfonso Brescia ~ John Richardson, Yanti Somer, Vassili Karis, Katia Christine