
Paid review: Nope, paid for the movie myself
Name: The Last Starfighter
Release year: 1984
Runtime: 101mins
Director: Nick Castle, known from The Boy Who Could Fly and Delivering Milo
Main actor: Lance Guest, known from Favorite Son and Jaws: The Revenge
Main actress: Catherine Mary Stewart, known from Night of the Comet and Star Rock
Story: The movie is about a boy who fell that he is stuck in the mobile home park that he is living in with his mom and brother. As all young boys he plays games, but this game is no ordinary game and soon there is more between the earth and the heavens.
Bad: Too some, the effects might be bad as it is quite an old movie now but still watchable.
Good: I do not know if the game exists, but it is nice to have a gaming movie that succeed in my mind, and it reminds you of wing commander
Stars: 5 out of 6 stars as it is a simple story but greatly done, too bad it never got a sequel
Favorite screen: The screen were all the aliens talks in random languages and we do not understand a clue, if I was going to make a movie I would do that too but with text as translate
Watch again: Yes an adventure you can watch again and again
Final words: If you need some good old school sci-fiction go watch this one