Fugitive Alien
Fugitive Alien
| 03 November 1987 (USA)
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An alien is pursued as a traitor by his own race because he refuses to kill humans.

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SparkMore

n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

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Iseerphia

All that we are seeing on the screen is happening with real people, real action sequences in the background, forcing the eye to watch as if we were there.

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Raymond Sierra

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

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Billy Ollie

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

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Woodyanders

Nice guy alien Ken gets deemed a traitor by his race after he kills his buddy after he refuses to kill a little boy and his mother. Fortunately, Ken manages to make the best of a bad situation by joining the crew of a spaceship. Meanwhile, the vengeful Rita tracks Ken down so she can kill him. Boy, does this honey possess all the right wrong stuff to qualify as a real four star stinkeroonie: The ham-fisted (mis)direction, hilariously horrendous dubbing, ineptly staged action scenes, tacky (markedly less than) special effects, sloppy narrative, on and off erratic pacing, tin-eared dialogue ("The thought of killing anyone is just too horrible"), corny flashbacks, groan-inducing moments of sappy sentiment, broadly drawn characters, and the frustrating to be continued cliffhanger ending all provide a wealth of unintentional belly laughs. A total howler.

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Torgo_Approves

....and none of my feverish hallucinations ever came close to the sheer insane absurdity of this complete nonsense. This is definitely one of Sandy Frank's most entertaining - admittedly for all the wrong reason - efforts (although that is a little like saying that this is one of Coleman Francis' most fun-filled features); certainly better than the steaming pile of acidic manure that is Time of the Apes. Seriously, that movie made my eyes hurt. At least Fugitive Alien, for all its incoherent attempts at plot lines, for all its sloppily spliced together scenes from some cheesy Japanese TV series, for all its insanely awful dialogue ("You're stuck here!"), is unintentionally hilarious. And I mean HILARIOUS. As in, John-Cleese-eat-your-heart-out, knee-slappingly, air-gaspingly laugh out loud hilarious. If you have to choose between watching the latest shrug-worthy Adam Sandler/Vince Vaughn/Ben Stiller "comedy" or this... choose this. It's colourful, stupid as hell, and unbelievably entertaining for the most part. Wait, am I recommending a Sandy Frank movie? Oh well, I guess it's finally happened. I've gone insane. There is no hope left for me now. I guess I'll just go and watch Fugitive Alien again. It makes my brain... comfortably numb.

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Mike

I very short lived TV series packaged into a movie brought to us by Sandy Frank; who has brought the Gamera films and Time of The Apes overseas. This movie(?) actually isn't all that painful. The plot makes sense, and you can actually tell who the characters are. So it is watchable, just rediculous. Several things aren't explained. Like who exactly these Wolf Raiders are, why they wear wigs to the battlefield, and several behavoiral patterns that just make you go "huh?". Also the hero has the strengh of ten men and can stop forklifts at full acceleration, yet falls down from a clean punch.The most frustrating thing i found with this movie and plenty of the Sandy Frank films i've seen is this "failed plan" thats in each movie. Here's an example: Our hereo is trapped in prison, so he supports himself up against the top corner of the cell hiding from view. The guard is about to open the door to search the cell and inadvertantly let the captive go. But he spots his foot first, as says "get down from there." end scene. What was the point of that scene? Next he ties an explosive to a cell door to bust it open, and it fails. So we watch him carefully take his time and wire another two explosives to open the door. Another waste of time! It's just disguised film padding.This movie stands on it's own as something to pass time on a rainy day, but the MST3K version is golden. Probably my favorite episode ever because of Joel Hodgson's dead on and hilarious impersonation of Captain Joe from the movie. No matter which version you watch I'll guarantee you'll be quoting "haa-hahahahahaha-haha-haaahahahaYOU'RESTUCKHERE!"

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quamp

Ah, Sandy Frank. The name conjures up a whole mess of bad Japanese films. Not surprisingly, this is one of them. The whole premise is a good idea - a marauding alien meets up with a kid that has the same name he does (Ken.) and then refuses to kill the kid. (Just what is Sandy Frank's obsession with the name Ken anyway? Many of his other imports have a male character named Ken as well.) A scuffle ensues between the alien and one of his partners, and he accidentally kills his partner. Then the alien is considered a traitor and runs away. He's found by the Star Force in Space, who take him in. The aliens wear extremely fake looking blonde wigs. The forklift scene is unintentionally hilarious. There's also a blonde woman who loves the hero Ken but has to kill him because he killed her brother. But the main problem with this film is the very bad acting. I think it would do better as a remake with a better cast, and maybe Jackie Chan in the lead role.Avoid unless you're watching the MST3K version.

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