Review of The Time Guardian (1987) by Allan C — 27 Dec 2015
Ozploitation ripoff of "The Terminator." Set some 2000 years in the future, robots have killed off most of humanity except for one city that manages to travel back in time to the modern day Australian outback.
However, the evil robots follow them into the outback. I'm certainly not opposed to low budget rip-offs of blockbuster (I'm a huge fan of Roger Corman's "Star Wars" rip-off "Battle Beyond the Stars"), but this film was just morning.
It takes most of the film for the robots to even get to the hero in the outback, which is where the story might have been interesting or exciting. The film does cast a couple American actors in small roles, Dean Stockwell and Carrie Fisher (who is the main reason I recorded this film).
And as an aside, there's kind of a funny nod to "The Road Warrior" when Carrie Fisher's character mentions that the film's hero was once a feral kid (the name of the boomerang throwing kid in "The Road Warrior").
Incidentally, writer/director Brian Hannant was one of the three writers on "The Road Warrior.".
This review of The Time Guardian (1987) was written by Allan C on 27 December 2015.
The Time Guardian has generally received negative reviews.
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