Abraxas
Reviewed By : Ramius Scythe

Release Year : 1991

AKA : Abraxas Guardian of the Universe

Directed By : Damian Lee

Written By : Damian Lee

Starring : Jesse Ventura, Sven-Ole Thorsen, Damian Lee

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Here we have some schlock sci-fi from 1991 featuring musclemen Jesse Ventura and Sven-Ole Thorsen playing out the classic good guy vs bad guy situation. The movie's story revolves around an alien criminal who ends up on Earth looking to impregnate a human female to the ends of producing offspring. This somehow will enable the bad guy (Sven-Ole Thorsen) the ability of the anti-life equation and to become god like. Well good ole intergalactic police man Abraxas (Jesse Ventura) is sent here to make sure that don't happen. What we see in the process is some dumb action scenes and soft lovey lovey scenes between the innocent mother and Abraxas.

This movie is truly awful; a cheesy, campy affair with dull SFX and no six legged killing machine alien/robots; there is nothing exciting here at all. There is a decent enough cast but they seem to struggle with what is a thin, stupid script. There are times when the stories logic simply does not add up and your left wondering what the hell is going on. They've tried to place some ethical issues in there with regard to the mother and child but it simply does not work. The dialogue in this movie has the power to make your ears bleed, hard. The characterisations are very one dimensional and flat, they've definitely borrowed from many movies, The Terminator influence stands out the strongest.

In the end if I had to try and think of something positive to say about Abraxas, I simply couldn't. There really is nothing to be said, I could only recommend this one if you're very bored and have run out of new movies to watch. Personally I'd rather watch re-runs of the Simpsons. Avoid.