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This current day movie stars 4 friends who take a journey back from present day 2010 and the age of the internet and cell phone back to the past in 1986 through a hot tube time tunnel.

The affects of decisions made back  then in those given moments have traveled all the way to the future and now they are unexpectedly going back to a pivotal day with a foreknowledge of the future and trying to make sense of things all over again without being sure what if anything can change about the future, if indeed they can ever get back.to 2010.

The actors are led by the timeless looking John Cusack, as one of the 4 buddies named Adam and as an actor he never seems to age and looks exactly the same as he did years ago.

He for the most part plays the more sensible leader of these group of friends and they look up to him a bit for that.

Some of the humor is a little too crude and brings an uneven feel at times.

Despite these flaws, which in part roll away as tongue in cheek humor, the 4 main characters seem emerge to where you root for them.

The weave of the movie, although at first convoluted does actually begin to tie together nicely while maintaining edges of real surprises and real mystery.

The touch of science fiction and fantasy was actually quite interesting  within the idea of reconnecting with the relatively recent past, and seeing what the speculation of the upcoming future was then against what actually happened and the question becomes whether there would be only predetermined outcomes that would just be repeated all over again or was there a chance to change history a bit by rolling the dice in some unexpected way that would recreate some parts of the future?

While the movie goes back from present day to the 80′s, there was a subtle mix of a 60′s feel within the 80′s scenes and a remnant of a 60′s feel good mentality that seemed to permeate and certainly the movie has a little bit of a pining for the 60′s that is traceable.

Overall, this movie works as the characters bubble up and seem to emerge and reemerge and the ending scenes contain some interesting, rising, nice surprises that lend into the underlying mystery that at first seemed submerged in this film but lifts off somehow and someway from some unknown launch pad as the scenes emerge and reconnect into something else in the undersurfaces of mystery..

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There are many bad sci-fi movies, and for many years movie addicts even considered Ed Wood’s “Plan 9 From Outer Space” to be the worst movie of all times. But “Plan 9″ is still a pretty good movie when compared to “Dünyayi Kurtaran Adam”, a film commonly known as “Turkish Star Wars”.

The official film poster already indicates how awful this movie must be (it’s probably also one of the worst movie posters ever created), and when I first saw it I though it should be a hoax or something alike, as such a silly poster wouldn’t likely exist. But this thing is real, and it’s so bad that it got what it deserves: cult status!

So here are the facts:

Dünyayi Kurtaran Adam (“The Man Who Saves the World”) was released in 1982, while Turkey was in the midst of massive political upheaval. US movies were hard to acquire, and so the stories of popular US movies were more or less copied and remade with turkish actors. As there was no money for expensive settings or special effects they simply bootlegged (copied) original scenes from popular US movies (notably many scenes from the original Star Wars movie) and mixed them with their own material (quite randomly).

The soundtrack is entirely copied from US movies, primarily Raiders of the Lost Ark (Indiana Jones), Moonraker, Ben Hur, Flash Gordon, Battlestar Galactica, Planet of the Apes, Silent Running and The Black Hole. The story doesn’t make much sense, the monsters look absolutely silly, the acting is horrible. Apparently they also wanted it to be a martial arts movie, but the fighting scenes are hilarious.

The story was written by Cüneyt Arkin, a well-known Turkish actor who also played to main character in the movie. It’s about the adventures of two comrades, Murat and Ali, whose ships crash on a desert planet. They then have to fight tons of ridiculous monsters and zombies, as well as an evil wizard who wants to defeat the Earth. Ali gets killed, and Murat finds a magic sword he’ll need to fight the villains. At a certain point Ali then gets “super-jumping boots” and he starts jumpin’around all the time, which becomes quite annoying after a few minutes… At the end of the movie Ali kills the evil wizard.

The Turkish Star Wars movie has a strong fan base – on 15 December 2006 a sequel was released, but most fans were disappointed as it was more a comedy movie than a sci-fi film (although you may consider the original movie to be an unintentional comedy too…) The available YouTube video shows about 9 minutes of the movie’s ending, and I’m sure you haven’t seen anything like this before!