Thursday, December 21, 2017

Raiders from Atlantis

Actors: Christopher Connelly, Gioia Scola, Tony King, Stefano Mingardo, Ivan Rassimov 
Rating: 1 out of 10, The latest in my journey through 100 bad sci fi films could have been titled Mad Max comes to the Caribbean. Some vets fresh off a successful kidnapping just happen to cruise by an offshore oil platform which is trying to raise a sunken Russian nuclear sub. For some reason that causes the lost continent of Atlantis to rise and turns some of a local island’s residents into biker gangs straight out of Max Rockatansky’s worst nightmares. They set about killing everybody else until the vet’s boat arrives. You still with me? Not a lot of sense and some heroically comically staged fight scenes. You realize how good Mad Max was when you see this pale copy. The lead actor was really familiar but I couldn’t place him until I did the old IMDb thang and saw his impressive list of 1970s TV credits. Really. Bad. Movie.
MVP: Tony King as Mohammed or Washington, I never figured out which

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