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Fantastic!

The first must-see film of the year.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

Where to begin? These scientists on some sort of oil rig are busy raising a Russian nuclear submarine from the ocean floor. They bring in ... archaeologist I think ... Gioia Scola, an expert in pre- Columbian languages to decipher a weird relic that has something to do with the submarine ... I think. Raising the submarine seems to cause a hurricane which capsizes their rig and perhaps also causes an island enclosed in a plastic dome to rise out of the water. Scola and scientist George Hilton and Michele Soavi and some other folks abandon the rig and encounter mercenary Christopher Connelly and his buddy Tony King on their boat. They all head for the shore of an island (not the one that rose from the sea), only to find it overrun with Atlanteans ... who are, for some reason, dressed like extras from "The Road Warrior" and riding motorcycles and armed with a weird mix of primitive weapons and machine guns. They have killed nearly everyone on the island, so after running into helicopter pilot Ivan Rassimov, who is buddies with Connelly, our heroes try to survive the onslaught of ... post-apocalyptic ancient warriors from under the sea? This movie is almost completely nonsensical, but tries to make up for it with near constant action and gore. The gore is pretty cheap and mediocre and the action pretty silly, but somehow the movie isn't completely awful. When it veers into deep science fiction territory near the end with scenes reminiscent of the Krypton sequences of "Superman: The Movie", you have to kind of admire it's giant balls.

Recently after discovering the awesomeness of the bronx warriors trilogy i have been hunting post-apocalypse exploitation movies. After 2019, endgame, & conquest i came across The raiders of Atlantis. This strange little film seems to have a pissy biker gang come to be thugish oiks when Atlantis resurfaces. A neighbourhood quickly becomes their playground of burning buildings and rubble. The main evil dude has some weird see-through plastic mask and as usual all his droogies dress like s&m gimps. Ah the 80's It has some gore, not to wave your hands about, but to make your cheeks hurt from laughing. A biker gets decapitated, then the headless biker drives forward into a wall. There is a few dummmy heads getting punctured in various ways, but for most of it people get shot and just fall over.Its not groundbreaking, the first 20 mins drag a bit, but then its a solid little pacey schlockfest. For post-apocalypse completists and 80's cheap action enthusiasts.

If you want to see what exploitation films ended up as before home video killed the grindhouses this is for you. Strange Italian lensed scifi adventure that makes almost no sense as the decoding of a tablet found near a sunken Russian submarine, and which the Americans are trying to raise, causes Atlantis to rise up killing everyone on a nearby island. The survivors of the American salvage effort team up with a couple of mercenaries to battle the descendants of Atlantis who have returned riding motorcycles and wearing fashion out of the Mad Max films. Their leader wears a clear plastic skull over his face. Of course it gets weirder but not very clearer. The action is good in a totally mindless nonsensical sort of way, but after awhile it kind of stops being interesting. The characters are a mixed bag with the two mercenaries, the heroes, coming off best thanks to the witty repartee that they have. It's a totally mindless and stupid movie that in the right frame of mind, or in small bits, wouldn't be bad, but sitting watching it from start to finish is a real chore. For bad action film lovers or those seeking to make fun of a movie only.

With post-apocalyptic action (Mad Max 2, Escape from New York), gritty urban thrillers (The Warriors), and escapist adventures (Raiders of the Lost Ark) all the rage with early 80s cinema-goers, it wasn't long before the Italian movie industry jumped on the bandwagon, keen to cash in before the fads fizzled out.Former king of of the cannibal movie, Ruggero Deodato, joined in the fun in 1983 with The Atlantis Interceptors, a decidedly silly film which is essentially an exercise in ripping off as many recent blockbusters as possible within an hour and a half.Christopher Connelly stars as Mike Ross, a soldier of fortune who must do battle with vicious motorcycle-punks from Atlantis, after the sunken civilisation is accidentally brought to the surface by a radioactive leak from a Russian submarine (I said it was silly, didn't I?). The film also features Tony King (Cannibal Apocalypse) as Mike's sidekick Washington, Ivan Rassimov (star of several Italian cannibal films) as helicopter pilot Bill Cook, and the gorgeous Gioia Scola as token bit of totty Dr. Cathy Rollins.With umpteen gun battles, several gruesome deaths (including a nifty beheading, a dreadful 'arrow through the head' gag, and a cannibal movie style jungle booby-trap scene), loads of explosions, a tidal wave (featuring some truly awful miniature work), and even a few lasers for good measure, The Atlantis Interceptors might never be boring, but it is still utter garbage. The action scenes are poorly choreographed, the bad-guys are laughable (they sport Mad Max style mohicans and new-wave make-up), and the plot is utter nonsense.If you're a huge fan of Italian sci-fi action schlock, then there is a slim chance that you may find this film worth a go, but to be honest, there are better post-apocalyptic action adventure movies out there—even Italian ones!