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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: net.movies,net.sf-lovers
Subject: Android (some plot discussion)
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Date: Tue, 14-Feb-84 12:49:56 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 14 12:49:56 1984
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Over the weekend I went and saw the new movie 'Android' starring Klaus
(Nosferatu) Kinski. This is a small budget (not low budget) film very
loosely based upon 'Frankenstein'. Kinski is a research scientist doing
work on a satellite in space on androids. Android research, however, is
illegal because androids have been outlawed after a group of them went
berserk in Munich, killing and raping. Kinski is assisted by an adroid, Max
404 (very well played by an actor credited only as 'himself'). While the
Dr. is working on the ultimate android (blond, stacked, and submissive),
Max is showing signs of the Munich syndrome, with a fixation on Earth and
women. A disabled ship lands on the satellite with three escaped convicts
on them, one of them a woman, and the movie takes off. Any further
discussion would probably give away things that are better left for the
movie. 

Klaus Kinski is very understated in the role, and handles it very well. All
of the acting in the movie is well done. The plot has some nice twists in
it, the sets and special effects (only a few, thank god) are wonderful. The
humor in the movie is sometimes reminiscent of Dark Star, but the overall
feeling of the movie is closer to Alien or 2001. It's good. Very good.
Potentially a new classic in SF. See it. Now.

Rating: ****.5 (out of 5) worth full price admission AND standing in line
			  in the rain.


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