Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Lack of good storyline.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

I thought that I would really like "Puma Man". Not because I thought that it would be a high quality piece of cinema, but because of its combination of being low budget and made by Italians - a combination that has made some of the funniest unintentional comedies I have seen in my lifetime. Sadly, the end results of this particular combination aren't that much fun. I think the main reason for that is that the movie is directed in a fashion that gives off very low energy. The movie is so slow and so without passion that the viewer is lulled into sleep instead of being constantly hit with powerful craziness. Oh, there are some unintentionally amusing bits that come up here and there, like some truly bad special effects and a plot that often doesn't make that much sense. But the amusement quickly drains out when these particularly silly things are repeated over and over without any variation or support from new and plentiful crazy material. If you are determined to watch the movie despite what I've just said, I recommend you seek out the Mystery Science Theater 3000 version - it does add a few more laughs to the enterprise.

Low-budget film about a young man given a mystical medallion by an Aztec shaman, in order to become a puma-empowered champion like his father before him. In trying to initially locate the young man, the shaman has the nasty habit of pushing candidates out of windows to test them.If not for "Mystery Science Theater", this film would probably have been forgotten. As of now (2015), the film was released on VHS, but never DVD. The VHS tapes actually got for a fairly high price online. There must be some kind of a demand.And, you know, despite being a bad movie, it is a fun bad movie. And many folks (myself included) love Italian horror / fantasy / adventure films. It would be great to see this film released on DVD or even Blu-ray, cleaned up with some sort of information on its creation and the director.

I can't believe that this film was made in 1980, it has the look and feel of an action movie from the 60's or maybe the 70's. It looks like it was made on a low budget too, because so many things, like the cars, the stereotypical south American guy, the mustaches, the soundtrack and the special effects all look dated, or extremely cheap, or both. What I'm trying to convey is that this film is of really poor quality in most aspects, which makes it kind of funny. The biggest problem however, which seems to be very common in older, low budget action movies, is that the whimsical concept (in this case, a man having ancient mystical puma powers) is not enough to drive the story forward. Instead, the hero ends up dealing with some rather mundane threat, in a not at all exciting way and the end result is a film that is dull and uninteresting.

Below sewer-level movie, directed by Alberto De Martino and starring once-decent thespian, Donald Pleasence ("Fantastic Journey," "Halloween," "The Changing Of The Guard" installment of "The Twilight Zone") as the villain, and non-talents Walter George Alton (a person not worthy of one name, let alone THREE), Miguelangel Fuentes and Sydne Rome, among others, is so bad it's great (if that's conceivable).Minuscule plot has Alton as paleontologist, Tony Farm, who finds an ancient Aztec mask, and thanks to a huge, square-headed mongoloid (Fuentes, with a Moe Howard haircut) - who keeps following him - he reluctantly becomes Puma Man, one of the lamest super heroes since William Katt.Pleasence, playing another bad guy role, is just as lisping an inept as he was in all of his other movies. Needless to say, he and his moronic henchmen are out to retrieve said mask because it has the power to make people fly at odd angles and rip through cardboard sets.To say that this film is bad would be an insult to the term. Horrible, beyond ludicrous "special" effects, insipid acting, unbelievably stupid dialogue and cheesy 1970's TV soundtrack music make the entire enterprise unintentionally hilarious.And Alton's turn as the lead consists of an hour of wooden sleepwalking followed by an idiotic ten-second outburst. Ultimately, however, it's the block-headed Aztec who turns out to be the hero, and the concluding "battle" is the silliest since the end of "Santa Claus Conquers The Martians," or "Rocky V."