Every time I go to Blockbuster I make sure to come back with a low-budget movie I've never heard of, with the specific purpose of trying to find hidden gems and in my ever ongoing search for the worst movie of all time (so far no film has bested Manos: The Hands of Fate in that search). Power Corps, or Recon 2020 as the version I rented is called, is a low-budget sci-fi film shot in what appears to be an abandoned factory complex. The plot is a rudimentary sci-fi one, a group of marines is sent to investigate some problems supposedly caused by a hostile alien race. Lines are stolen from various sci-fi films, most notably ALIENS, a film which is borrowed from ad infinitum in the sci-fi world. The dialogue is terribly written and not very well delivered and the action is poorly choreographed. You'd think that low budget film-makers could at least try to deliver a mindless action film sans any real plot, and that they would have learned to avoid the disgustingly cheap CGI and go for the practical effects.
The film isn't totally unbearable if you like this sort of cheesy, low-budget, rip off of every sci-fi film ever made, movie, and it couldn't hurt to have a sense of humor either.
The worst part of the movie is that its supposed to take place in the future, but the abandoned factory that they shoot most of the scenes in has graffiti all over it and bares about as much resemblance to a high tech colony/facility as a mud hut looks like a skyscraper...
Bad, but not enough to make me sick/suicidal, Manos still reigns as the worst film ever made...
The film isn't totally unbearable if you like this sort of cheesy, low-budget, rip off of every sci-fi film ever made, movie, and it couldn't hurt to have a sense of humor either.
The worst part of the movie is that its supposed to take place in the future, but the abandoned factory that they shoot most of the scenes in has graffiti all over it and bares about as much resemblance to a high tech colony/facility as a mud hut looks like a skyscraper...
Bad, but not enough to make me sick/suicidal, Manos still reigns as the worst film ever made...