Alien Warrior (1985) User Reviews

I rate this 5 stars for 1 reason.

[bs-50198 · 5/10 · 30 April 2020]

I was so insanely phsyced to see this movie! I got it for my tenth birthday over space jam! but wasn't allowed to watch it because of the numerous Boob scenes lol when my dad watched the day b4 my birthday!

I felt so jipped but the day came and all my hope of seeing kung fu jesus kick some ass! Was lost on the most hilarious movie ever made. Seriously the scenes with the boobs and theirs quite a few barley fit into the plot. The hilarious drill scene going to the nipple. My god it's so bad but good as well.

I recommend watching this to see if you can last through the whole thing.

better than plan 9

[madewithchicken · 1/10 · 21 April 2005]

imagine if you took the Christ myth, mixed it with a healthy dose of porn, against a backdrop of bad sci-fi blackxploitation(brotha from another planet like) throw in a dash of after school special, and lots of really bad kung fu fighting. oh and some decent break dancing. with an awesome casio keyboard soundtrack.

and some how they make this even worse than you could imagine. there are at least 4 rape scenes, at least one great car explosion, a buff black guy running around in his undies with an Uzi.

add alcohol and this is the perfect movie.

i mean lots and lots and lots of alcohol

LOL!

[Bananmannen · 11 February 2003]

Man, this has to be one of the funniest movies I have ever seen. If i was going to rate it as a serious movie I'd give it the lowest score possible, but if you pretend that it's a comedy/parody its a clear 10! Hahaha, I can't remember the last time I laughed so much because a movie was BAD! Go see it now!

...nearly drove me insane.

[stupid_fresh · 1/10 · 12 June 2002]

This film almost gave me a nervous breakdown. When I was recovering from appendicitis a few years ago, I had just started teaching in secondary (high) school. The whole teaching business was all a bit nervewracking for a beginner, but to mentally prepare myself for going back into the classroom I decided to watch some rather awful films. The Flintstones was one of the films that I chose, and then I put "King Of The Streets" (the UK title of 'Alien Warrior') on. Just before it finished I found myself almost in tears at the sheer waste of it all...my life, the film stock, the £2 I had paid for it a couple of weeks ago in the Blockbuster ex rental section, the time it must have taken to print the sleeve art, the effort of the editors and musicians involved in the soundtrack (as negligable as their efforts were)...the list goes on.

I love bad films. Let me make this perfectly clear - I LOVE watching crappy films from Blockbusters. Me and my mate Dan used to sit and watch many, many cheapjack horrors and laugh at them. But this was a different type of crappy film. I don't think that anything has come close to this, not even Tobe Hooper's "Death Trap" (which is probably my second worst film in the world). The whole making a car from abandoned parts section nearly killed me; the repetition of music at any available opportunity, regardless of on-screen events; the whole.... AAAGGGHHHHHHH!!!!! I can't even carry on with this 'critical' dissection, as my gag reflex has started. The futility of that film, even now, three years after I watched it for the first and last time, still renders me speechless (but I am still able to type). The whole "making a car from odd parts" section had me contemplating horrible things.

I implore you, if you are interested in watching this film, just gaze at the cover of the video and imagine the worst possible version of the story synopsis on the back. I can almost guarantee that it won't be even half as bad as this film actually is. Don't, under any circumstances, contemplate actually watching it for any reason whatsoever. Not if you are a Christian and you want to see a Christ allegory; not if you are a bad movie afictionado and you want to experience the true nadir of trash; not even if you want your life to seem longer (and believe me, every second that this film runs seems like at least a minute). Make no mistake about it, this film is unholy. It is the antichrist in video form. As Bo Cattlett in Get Shorty said: "I've seen better film on teeth".

A more appropiate title would have been "E.T. Superstar" or "Who's Pimp Daddy?"

[Coffee_in_the_Clink · 2/10 · 13 May 2020]

"Alien Warrior" or "King of the Street" is one hell of a bizarre film, that is very tedious, strange and feels like it is never going to end. Which is weird, because there is plenty of action; shoot-outs galore, pimp-walking, pimp-talking, pimp-stomping and pimp-slapping! This madness would be best described as the concoction you would get if you crossed "Jesus Christ Superstar" with "Taxi Driver", and with a strong dosage of "E.T. the Extra-terrestrial". It's extremely cheap and was filmed on the mean streets of Skid Row, LA, which was so bad at the time that they allegedly had to hire security to protect the cast and crew while filming. It wasn't worth it, because this is a right turkey of a film. The concept is strange, I'll give it that, but it is also unbelievably stupid, irritating and goes absolutely nowhere. As expected, the acting is quite bad and so is just about everything else. But the dull and repetitive script is what kills it completely.

An alien from a race that is not much different to humans is sent down to Earth to do away with the Great Evil that has plagued the planet, not unlike the exploits of Jesus Christ (He even looks a bit like the typical depiction of Christ). When he lands on Earth (in LA's skid row, of all places) he stops a woman being gang-raped by a gang of Latinos, and from there, he implores people to take him to "Great Evil". The rest of the film sees a lot of the aforementioned 'pimping' as gold-toothed, fur-coated, cane-toting gangster pimps fight one another on the streets, and our Alien Warrior finds refuge in an old library and starts to bully gang-bangers into learning how to read... Yes, you read that correctly. Welcome to the madness that is "Alien Warrior".

Movie make me cry

[sandtwister101 · 1/10 · 5 July 2010]

I was in this movie back in the 80's as a teenager. It still haunts me today 25 years later. I was one of those black pimps the alien saved! Yes, it is true! Today, my life is full of alien thoughts of going back to the dark alley streets and saving the prostitutes and change the world one pimp at a time! Yes, I was......

What a load of crap! Just like this movie: crap! I did see it in the 80's and remember it somewhat. Not long ago I thought about the worst movies I've seen and this has to be at the top. If you want to laugh, cry, and celebrate all during a movie, don't see this. Watch The Last Airbender. No, avoid that one too!

aaghhaha...

[Krizu · 1/10 · 19 October 1999]

Hargh... this film is so bad it's almost good. Trash at its best. Jesus' bro vs. pimps...come on. I'd say that you'd actually have to see this, it's so bad... my sides hurt when I laughed. I can't understand why this isn't in the worst 100.

Alien Warror is an 80s gem

[tarbosh22000 · 7/10 · 13 September 2017]

Buddy (Clark) is an alien from another world. Imagine a cross between Tony Robbins, Dr. Oz, Dr. Phil, James Brolin, Jesus, and Superman. Buddy is sent by his father to earth to find and eliminate "great evil". After looking around and asking people if they know where he can find great evil, he finds his niche in a skid row "reading room" where he puts his psychology skills to work. While simultaneously wooing the lovely Lora (Saunders), he also runs afoul of the personification of great evil - a pimp named Mr. One (De Morton). So while Buddy is transforming the mean streets of L.A. by turning gangbangers into devoted bookworms, Mr. One is trying to undo his handiwork - and he has a lot of cops and politicians right where he wants them. Naturally this leads to the ultimate showdown - will this ALIEN WARRIOR be the KING OF THE STREETS? (hey, I had to at least try to use both of the film's titles).

Alien Warrior (we prefer the alternate title of King of the Streets, as it's more in keeping with the tone of our site) is an 80's gem that is well worth seeking out. Its sheer ridiculousness never fails to totally entertain. While it might not be quite at the level of a Miami Connection (1987), Samurai Cop (1991), Geteven (1993), or Deadly Prey (1987), it's damn close. Think of it as a second-round draft pick if they were forming teams of absurd, silly movies that you just have to love.

The movie seems to be the end result of someone musing, "Man, I love that Paul Kersey character from Death Wish. You know the one thing that would make Paul Kersey better? If he was an ALIEN." And that's the good news - don't be scared off by any supposed "sci-fi" overtones, as there is minimal sci-fi.  What you do get are not one but two wacky alleyway fights, a bunch of blow-ups, shooting, racism, and adult sleaziness blithely mixed with childlike good-natured comedy.  There are plenty of genuine laugh out loud moments, but we're not sure if they were intentional. But it doesn't matter. Alien Warrior is 80's video store fun at its best.

Brett Baxter Clark seemingly gives his all to the role, and perhaps delivers the performance of his career - though to be fair we haven't seen every movie of his, of course, but this towers over his roles in Delta Force Commando (1988) and even Shootfighter II (1995). It seems Clark really was on board with this bizarre mix of pop psychology, community improvement, and senseless violence. Let's not forget that he transports himself to earth using the power of his naked chest, and when he uses his healing powers to help a girl dying in the hospital, he implores her to "feel my beard". We don't think it's a spoiler to indicate that she makes a full recovery.

And that's just the tip of the iceberg as far as the nonsensical pleasures Alien Warrior will provide for you if you give it a chance. We'd list more to entice you, but we don't want to spoil it for you.

In the end, Alien Warrior will appeal most to 80's fans (there are arcades, break dancing, and synths on the soundtrack), and people with a taste for the silly and absurd. As of this writing there is no DVD or Blu-Ray release, but there really should be. See it if you can.

Imagine if you will Clark Kent as an alien. Oh, wait....

[mark.waltz · 2/10 · 18 June 2023]

This is one of those fun, hideously bad 80's movies, 2/10 serious movie review rating, yet 10/10 campy, guilty pleasure rating. It's the type of film that makes the viewer feel guilty about laughing at with its female exploitation, racist cliches and attitudes towards rape, absolutely vile in the last aspect, but ultimately showing angelic good triumphing over perverse evil. With his piercing eyes commanding every close-up on him, Brett Clark makes up in looks and character than he does in his acting abilities, asking in total monotone to everyone he meets where he can find "great evil". His first glimpse of it comes when he looks on (completely naked) at a city skyline and encounters a drunken street bumb, and later encounters lower evil when he saves a woman from being raped by a gang of hoods. Earlier when running away from them, she knocked one down some steep city street concrete steps, and as she looks on, you almost expect her to inquire if he's all right as he grabs onto the painful body area where she had just kicked him.

With lines like "Go suck your carrot" (said to Clark by a prostitute after he asks her why she wants to die), you know that a clever brain wasn't used to write this script, a pre-teen mentality that is stuck in the brain of the adult who wrote this. The lines that Clark bellows are supposed to sound philosophical and profound, but are just silly. He'd supposed to look into the eyes of a criminal and make them see the error of their ways and break down crying as if they were at the sermon on the mount. So you have a mixed message making the viewer wonder why the mixture of erotic sadomasocistic visuals and spiritual enlightenment is supposed to be a good combo. This mixes its tacky mixed messages with lots of violence and yet very little science fiction, to the point where the viewer begins to wonder what was going on when it was written, but also with the producers and director who decided that this needed to be made into a film.

Cheesy, good-natured, sincere 80s fun!

[fennis2000 · 10/10 · 7 August 2006]

Alien Warrior (or King of The Streets) is one of those 80s gems you stumble across by mistake, then watch awestruck, marveling at how wonderfully silly and over the top it gets.

A rather hunky alien arrives on earth (LA to be exact) and stumbles into a world of drug dealers, gangs, and corrupt cops. He falls in love with the flaxen haired, beautiful teacher who only wants to help inner-city kids read more. He also manages to anger a coke-snorting drug kingpin who vows to destroy him.

I fell in love with this film at first viewing... sure it's hokey, silly and low-budget. But you can tell the filmmakers had their heart in the right place, and damn if the thing doesn't work! I only pray it'll be on DVD soon.

It's got a hot soundtrack, break-dancing, violence, nudity.... all with a positive, wholesome message! See it.

What were they thinking?

[wbutane · 10 March 2001]

I can't quite figure out exactly what audience the filmmakers were trying to reach with this film. It's basically a kid's movie about an alien who comes to Earth to defeat "great evil". But they also throw in lots of violence, pimping, drug dealing, naked women, and the result is a paranoid movie that only fans of bad cinema will appreciate. Perfect for inviting friends over and having a do-it-yourself Mystery Science Theater 3000 party. The acting is terrible, so are the special effects. The funniest scene has to be the alien befriending the street gangs and convincing them to paint over their old graffiti with new "nice" graffiti!

An alien leaves his home planet wearing hospital, scrub-like pants. Arrives on earth minus the pants.

[julio-com · 10/10 · 24 June 2006]

First off, the alien saves a little black boy as well as a Mexican, despite what the IMDb plot summary suggests. This film is the fulfillment of the purest of male fantsies, interracial rape. The main character in this film is a George Michaelesque dope, who doesn't understand primal human urges like drug abuse and murder. In fact, every time he uses violence to solve a problem he has an internal conflict that physically hinders him. What a square. In any case, my favorite scene is when he writes the gang members a letter stating if they want the 500 bucks they get from the Reading Center for protection they must meet with him. At the meeting he is surrounded by countless Chicano gangsters, but he keeps a cool head. In slow motion, he punches the wooden post of a stop sign that shatters upon contact. Then, still in slow motion, points at the leader of the gang and says, "Noooooooooooooooooooo, mooooooooooooore!" The gang members comply. Cool, right? The beauty of this film shows through in these simple solutions to social problems like prostitution and gang violence.