Another 70s-80s sci-fi and the same issue I've found with others - that the content rarely meets the imagination and creation of the sets and costumes - are obvious here, cashing in on Star Wars and looking cheap in comparison. Kiel is wooden speaking, but emotes more when he's transformed into a simpleton machine man, and for some reason there's quansi-Eastern philosophy. If the film had been about Kiel, the mystical kid and the robotic dog it may have been better.