Xtro

This is such a wildly uneven, stilted movie. So very, very bizarre and off-kilter. And yet, I have to give it SOME credit for being as bold and batshit insane as it is. A lot of reviews try to say it's just Evil E.T., but that's hardly it. A man is taken by aliens, and then returns 3 years later, only there's something very, very wrong with him. He wants his son back, and he wants his son to come back with him to the other planet. It sounds simplistic, and it should be. But then he infects the kid and gives him powers, like the ability to manifest his imagination into reality, and psychic powers, and all sorts of crazy stuff. You got killer, life-sized army dolls, and blank panthers, and sentient toy tanks, and deranged midget clowns. And that doesn't even get into the body horror and special effects. This movie is not afraid to go for it. You will not forget what this movie does and what is shows you. That's not to say it's a GOOD movie, though. The plot drags in places, the acting is passable, the cinematography is acceptable ... the only thing that's really BAD per se is the score, which is almost entirely fart noises and noodling on a synthesizer, and it never matches the moment. It all sounds like wacky hijinks movie from a bad 80's syndicated sitcom. Everything else is just ... it's fine. It's enough to keep a movie happening, but not enough to make a movie good. But man, when this movie decides to do something memorable, it commits. If for no other reason, you have to see this, just because it will leave you going "what the hell is going on?!?" for much of its runtime.