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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

My kids watched this movie over and over on VHS and I will admit I watched it with them pretty often - and even occasionally on my own.There's nothing special about the plot, characters or special effects, but there was a dream-come-true quality that worked better than usual. I even felt it myself as an adult male. Imagine flying off into space with a beautiful girl after having unexpectedly discovered you had hidden talents that suddenly made you an indispensable hero to the universe. What guy ever loses that dream? Robert Preston and Dan O'Herlihy were superb of course, and that undoubtedly added to the impact.Modern CGI might make the film look out-of-date to most kids today, but it might be worth giving it a shot. And watch it with them, you might have more fun that you think.

This was one of the first movies I saw in a theater, 1985, the year after its release. And I tell you, this movie wasn't a big deal then; it was considered a well made but derivative B movie, and the CGI effects were almost never mentioned in reviews or articles. I have checked it now in newspaper archives online, so I know I remember it right.The ironic thing is that "Young Sherlock Holmes" (1985) was released this same year; I saw it soon after "The Last Starfighter". The Sherlock Holmes movie was hailed for its alleged groundbreaking CGI effect: a very short sequence where a knight of stained glass attack a priest. This effect lasted perhaps 20 seconds..."The Last Starfighter" is full of CGI sequences, and either me or my friends in the theater recognized them as computer images, and absolutely not as "cheap video game graphics" as some reviewers here describe it. And no journalist or reviewer saw it that way either, back then. But when I watch this movie on DVD today, many sequences really look distinctly artificial with unnatural sharp edges and light, much like computer graphics, which give them a style that cut them out from the rest of the movie. My theory is that the celluloid copies that we were watching in the theaters smothered this down and gave these sequences a much more natural look; and that the movie makers originally counted on this when they incorporated the CGI scenes with the rest of the movie.The movie is well made, with a rather original story and good performances by the actors. Not a very great movie, though, but it is entertaining and without doubt movie history.

Lost in the summer releases and technically very inferior to the "Star Wars" series, but a lot of fun. The film that probably killed Lorimar-Filmways! The digital effects are crude. The spaceship matte is very inferior and fake-looking by today's standards. What does it have in it's favor? Several things: It has a great intentional sense-of-humor. (You will notice this more on the 2nd viewing.) The villain is a spoiled brat that looks like a bald Kryptonian. He bombs the space academy while the spacesuit-tailors are arguing about modifying the uniform for "humans"! Great intentional "miscasting" with a green lizard man (nice rubber suit) and Robert Preston plays himself as a Harold Hill-alien "flim-flam man". Great low budget special effects and some of it takes place on Earth in a boring trailer park! The alien assassin smells like a rotten pork chop and disguises itself as a policeman-shape-shifter! The "Space Blossom" secret weapon is powered by a 9-volt radio battery! Lot's of fun. Our hero, played by Lance Guest, (Alex) is a teenaged college student with a very-hot girl friend (Catherine Mary Stewart). "Alex" plays "the video game" at the trailer court. The game was shipped there by mistake! It was meant to go to another city or planet! By beating the game, he qualifies to become a space cadet and gets recruited by Robert Preston as "Centuri". Other nice touches: Alex (the Starfighter) is "replaced" temporarily by a robot duplicate. It takes off its head to adjust itself after taking a "tongue in the ear" by his girlfriend! The "Star Car" changes into a "Space-Car" just like in "The Men in Black".

OK. If this were 1984 (the year of The Last Starfighter's theatrical release), you can be sure that I'd most likely be raving about this Sci-Fi/Comedy, kiddies' film with a little bit more enthusiasm. And, yes, rating it with a higher score than just 3 measly stars, as well.But, as things stand - Now 30 years later (after being thoroughly saturated for the past 3 decades by an onslaught of CGI effects in every single alien-related movie around), one can't help but see how totally inferior The Last Starfighter is in so many, many ways.Had I been able to somehow relate to the youthful characters in the story, I might have leaned a little less critically on this film, which I view as a blatant rip-off of Star Wars.But, as it stood - The Last Starfighter's story was a pretty well-worn tale that held no surprises and quickly got stale within its first half-hour.Yes. I will admit that some of the visual effects here were quite good - But this didn't come anywhere near to compensating for the rest of The Last Starfighter which, pretty much, sucked to infinity, and beyond.