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Excellent but underrated film

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

This cheap Italian rip-off of THE TERMINATOR is better than most as it has a fairly complex storyline, fun acting and special effects, and more action than you would expect from a film of this type. Although it's very low budget, it's a lot of fun, although hardly anyone seems to have heard of it, and it's not in any of the reference books I have. There are three major chase sequences through the film, the first with Nero running barefoot and getting his feet ripped up (kind of like Bruce Willis in DIE HARD), the second a well-choreographed truck chase with a nice explosion at the end, and the final run from the TERMINATOR-inspired alien villain. All of these moments are exciting and there are a couple of gunfights and punch-ups involved too.The rest of the film usually has Nero travelling somewhere or talking to somebody, and these are the typical filler moments. I thought it was going to be pretty boring and at the start it was, but don't worry, it soon picks up into a fun cheapo film. The plot involves lots of government organisations and a buried spaceship which is pretty cool, and in the last twenty minutes the aliens make their long-overdue appearance, which is also a blessing. The 'alien terminator' is pretty funny, a guy with curly hair and a red shirt who nonchalantly walks down your local street carrying a machine gun! The makeup effects for when half his face is ripped off (just like in THE TERMINATOR) are, while low budget and crude in the extreme, imaginative, and I love the way his eyeball moved around with a whirring noise.With some brief topless women and cheap, synthesiser-like music added into the brew, this keeps the attention fairly well, helped by the performances of Franco Nero as the cool writer hero who spends most of the film running around (he looks a bit like Richard Dreyfuss in JAWS) and showing off his chest hair, like Burt Reynolds. George Kennedy has a small role as a chuckling villain and the rest of the cast are adequate, with the exception of the hilarious actor playing the terminator guy, who lifts his hands in a fighting style when he meets a bull! It's a riot. The only reason I wouldn't like this film was the atrocious sound quality and bad, jumpy, faded washed out picture, but that's hardly the film's fault is it? TOP LINE is a nice little picture which comes across as something of a minor gem. Watch it and see why.

This one is beyond awful and boring!! I watched it in fast-forward!! A bunch of rich white people sailing on boats and in offices for about 20 minutes then one guy gets shot at and runs and runs... he runs out in the middle of nowhere and a car tries to run him over. Next he's being healed by his girlfriend (?) and a phone call from a rich woman in her large bubble bath, then a bunch of people sitting around laughing & eating at a restaurant then some more boring office stuff then the military chasing some people then more office stuff -- then finally the last 30 minutes we see the cheesy alien terminator dude. UGH!!! I didn't like this at all! I was hoping for a few giggles and maybe some laugh out loud fun but within 5 minutes I was hitting the fast-forward button and kept waiting to see something interesting to stop and watch but I didn't. All I saw was one long rich people borefest.1/10

A washed-up writer ventures into the Colombian jungle in search of gold. He gets much more than he bargained for, however, when he discovers a 15th century Spanish galleon located inside an alien spaceship, which in turn is inside a mountain! His discovery isn't universally popular, though, and it leads him to be pursued by Neo-Nazis and other shady characters out to kill him.The above synopsis really makes Top Line sound considerably better than it actually is. The ideas are much greater than the execution. It's a silly story but that often results in entertainment on the screen. At best, this one only achieves this fairly sporadically. With scenes involving the galleon, the cyborg and the alien being the best. For the most part it's a mediocre thriller though. The main fault most probably has to be levelled at the direction which is lacking in any proper focus. It does have some half-way decent make-up effects during the cyborg and alien scenes but maybe it could have done with more. It stars the reliable pairing of Franco Nero as the writer and George Kennedy as a Nazi leader; the latter is dubbed with a strange accent.

This film's American title, ALIEN TERMINATOR, suggests that it would be set in outer space - but it's actually a jungle adventure for the best part of the duration! It's silly, cheesy and cheap (particularly the robot effects and the repellent make-up of the alien creature at the end) but oddly watchable.The cast, however, looks fairly uncomfortable: Franco Nero is amusing as a writer on the skids; William Berger's role is limited to the beginning and is quite brief; George Kennedy is hilariously out-of-place as an antiquarian with a silly German accent and an even sillier laugh - his death is therefore appropriately reminiscent of Dreyer's VAMPYR (1932)!; the three women with whom Nero is involved - among them Deborah Barrymore, not a member of the celebrated American family of that name but actually British, and the daughter of Roger Moore!! - are attractive but add very little to the proceedings (except for the twist ending involving Mary Stavin).A hilarious scene involves an unstoppable cyborg (in the vein of Arnold Schwarzenegger), belatedly introduced into the story, which gets into a scrape with a bull and is torn in half into the bargain! Also, the worldwide conspiracy theory brought up in the script - that aliens are already living among us and occupy important civil positions - is not only far-fetched but ludicrous! The film does have an eclectic electronic score (a feature of many a low-budget title from the 80s) which alternates between lounge music and disco-oriented vibes, not that this helps matters much...