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Information
- Year
- 1985
- Runtime
- 86 min.
- Director
- Danny Bilson
- Genres
- Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, War
- Rating *
- 5.3
- Votes *
- 753
- Checks
- 78
- Favs
- 0
- Dislikes
- 5
- Favs/checks
- 0.0% (0:78)
- Favs/dislikes
- 0:5
Top comments
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Siskoid
At first, you might think Zone Troopers is going to be a World War II riff on Predator, and I don't know if I give it bonus points for not being that, or take them away because the result isn't particularly exciting. Tim Thomerson stars as a gruff Sgt. Rock type (you could have done worse than cast Thomerson in the role back when a Rock movie was in development) trapped behind enemy lines with a few men who stumble upon a crashed alien ship. Interestingly, the movie uses the SF magazine aesthetics of the time to realize its (actually massive, practical) spaceship, and its aliens, which has to count for something. One soldier is an obsessed SF fan, which makes this sort of his fever dream. Unfortunately, the action is very limp. Back to riff and rip-offs, you'll find that the Nazi theme in this is quite like Empire Strikes Back's Imperial March, deviating just before the movie gets into copyright issues. 1 year ago