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Waste of time

I was totally surprised at how great this film.You could feel your paranoia rise as the film went on and as you gradually learned the details of the real situation.

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

The movie runs out of plot and jokes well before the end of a two-hour running time, long for a light comedy.

Writer Don Keith Opper couldn't get girls. Don wrote a play describing how he might get girls in space. Don somehow got funding for his idea. Sex sells and this is the kind of preteen garbage that you get. The dialog in the play is simplistic at best. The characters were one dimensional. Some reviewers talked about this film as another coming-of-age story, but I did not see it. Klaus Kinski was especially creepy and even though he got top billing, he was rarely in any of the scenes. I spent the entire movie trying to pinpoint Brie Howard's actual ethnic background. Avoid this one. Rent 2001: A Space Odyssey or read Playboy. This junior high play could have taken place in any 12 year old boy's bedroom.

Very much a "mixed bag". The special effects and set design are terribly cheesy, with lots of random flashing lights and odd geometric shapes for no reason (why a trapezoidal water jug? because it's THE FUTURE!) and a defense system based on the classic Vectrex video game system. But the cinematography is generally decent (although typically overlit) and I rather liked the synth score, by Mother of Invention Don Preston. As far as the cast is concerned, Klaus Kinski is of course always a delight, but he's really not in it all that much and it's a rather subdued role for him. Don Keith Opper (credited only under his android name) plays the title character as a rebellious nerd, which is an interesting take but doesn't always work. Brie Howard and Norbert Weisser are barely passable, and Crofton Hardesser is downright awful. The script has some horribly clunky lines in it, but the story is pretty intriguing once you get into it, a kind of BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (or METROPOLIS, which Max 404 actually watches at one point) tale with BLADE RUNNER style commentary on what it is to be human. It doesn't run very deep, but there are some nice angles to it, and a neat ending. If you can overlook a lot of flaws and keep your Kinski expectations low, it's really not a bad watch.

Here's a movie that turns an old Roger Corman trick, recycling sets for one low-budget movie after hours to make an even lower-budget movie, often one with more of a 'personal' touch. The victim here is Corman's Star Wars/Seven Samurai hybrid, "Battle Beyond the Stars," which was seriously el cheapo to begin with. "Android" was co-written by its star (and producer's son?) Don Opper, who plays an android in the throes of sexual awakening on a space station manned by Klaus Kinski in a blue sweater; he looks like he just popped by on a morning walk to the store. Some murderous 'anticorporate terrorists' happen on board, scheme a while, complications ensue. Some might find this too slight or too static, but I am impressed with how well it moves considering the economy, and actually I find its modestly quirky tone just about perfectly realized. It is one of those movies that looks like it was scribbled on the back of a high-school notebook, like The Abyss which is blows away effortlessly, or Phantasm which it can keep company with. It almost plays out as a wish-fulfillment fantasy of its geeky star; who ever gets a chance to play around on this scale? Only a lucky few, and we should cherish it when it happens.

Craggy old Klaus Kinski lives with his awkward assistant Max on a space station, developing a female android. Max spends his time playing old arcade games and researching the human condition - (I heard somewhere that the external shots of the space station were done by creating a model station from a display case which used to house watches or jewelry!) Into this scenario comes band of escaped convicts on a space ship badly damaged during their escape ...There is humour in this film but it is of a very dark shade. The LACK of special effects ADDS to the "reality" of the film.A couple of really unexpected plot twists along the way - I rate it a "9" which is the highest I have ever given a film on the IMDb