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SteinMo What a freaking movie. So many twists and turns. Absolutely intense from start to finish.

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

Leofwine_draca FUGITIVE ALIEN is a film apparently edited together from episodes of an obscure 1978 Japanese television series hastily made on the cheap in the post-STAR WARS rush for sci-fi flicks. It goes without saying that the result doesn't make much sense, and it doesn't even have a conclusion - the antics would continue in STAR FORCE: FUGITIVE ALIEN II, which thankfully I haven't seen as yet. Not that I'll be rushing out to buy a copy, because FUGITIVE ALIEN is a pretty abysmal film. Abysmally dull, that is. Although there are space battles, lasers, and people killing each other with would-be light sabers, FUGITIVE ALIEN is one big bore.For a start, it looks cheap. The interior of the ship is cheap, the planets are cheap, and the special effects are horrendously tacky and inferior. Sure, cheap effects can be a lot of fun, but not here. They just look cheap, poor and unremarkable, with little or no imagination being used on them. People are shot with lasers, flash blue for a couple of seconds and then drop down dead. An effect already clichéd by 1978, when the TV series was made. Watch out for the model spaceship which actually turns transparent for a moment when flying through space. There aren't even as many explosions as you would expect from a Japanese movie.Another problem is the film's running time - at 103 minutes, it's overlong, and drags incessantly. It invariably feels episodic in nature, with three or four sub-plots (one for each episode) to make things that little bit more confusing. At points the film threatens to becoming an amusing sci-fi variant of the hit TV series THE FUGITIVE, but it always lapses back into mediocre sci-fi action the next minute.Scenes are ripped off directly from STAR WARS (another bad scene, another guy coming up and saying "I don't like you") and gadgets are stolen from Bond and other assorted spy movies. Sure, a few things are weird - background turning blue, people shining white in dream sequences, the space raiders wearing blonde wigs for some reason under their helmets - but it's never enough. And with cardboard cut-outs for the characters, it's hard to keep watching. I would only recommend this to be watched by small children who are really easily pleased by what they see on television.

Torgo_Approves ....and none of my feverish hallucinations ever came close to the sheer insane absurdity of this complete nonsense. This is definitely one of Sandy Frank's most entertaining - admittedly for all the wrong reason - efforts (although that is a little like saying that this is one of Coleman Francis' most fun-filled features); certainly better than the steaming pile of acidic manure that is Time of the Apes. Seriously, that movie made my eyes hurt. At least Fugitive Alien, for all its incoherent attempts at plot lines, for all its sloppily spliced together scenes from some cheesy Japanese TV series, for all its insanely awful dialogue ("You're stuck here!"), is unintentionally hilarious. And I mean HILARIOUS. As in, John-Cleese-eat-your-heart-out, knee-slappingly, air-gaspingly laugh out loud hilarious. If you have to choose between watching the latest shrug-worthy Adam Sandler/Vince Vaughn/Ben Stiller "comedy" or this... choose this. It's colourful, stupid as hell, and unbelievably entertaining for the most part. Wait, am I recommending a Sandy Frank movie? Oh well, I guess it's finally happened. I've gone insane. There is no hope left for me now. I guess I'll just go and watch Fugitive Alien again. It makes my brain... comfortably numb.

Diana Ahhh...Sandy Frank. Who are you, and why do you continue to torment us with truly horrible Japanese movies? If not for you, these stinkers would never have seen the light of day in America. I'm sure the Japanese themselves writhe in agony every time they see one of these poorly dubbed cinematic abominations scrolling across an American t.v. screen.Fugitive Alien is only one of the many quality films imported by the wretched Sandy Frank. It is a series of episodes of a Japanese t.v. show strung together to make an incomprehensible 'movie', a la Riding With Death. That is like taking Gilligan's Island, chopping it up so that it makes no sense whatsoever(that wouldn't take much) slapping some REALLY poor dubbing on it, and sending it over to foreign countries as representations of American culture. While this might, indeed, show a true sense of what American culture is really like(confusing, badly costumed, incoherent, and stupid)would we really want the whole rest of the world to see that?Fugitive Alien tells(badly)the story of the ubiquitous 'Ken', a Valna wolf raider from Valnastar. On his planet, these ferocious warriors trick themselves out in more white face paint than Liza, stupid Rainbow Bright jumpsuits, and helmets that for some reason have curly blonde wigs attached. My theory is that they got laughed at so often for this look that they started killing people out of sheer annoyance. They attack the Earth(or Japan, anyway) and lay waste to Tokyo. Our 'hero' Ken kills his friend and fellow raider when he tries to kill a little boy named...you got, Ken. Apparently the entire universe is peopled with guys names Ken. Go figure. Is there a whole planet full of Barbies out there, too?Now considered a traitor to his people(he refused to wear the splendidly awful outfit anymore) he hooks up with the human crew of the Baccheus 3, 'the Earth's oldest spaceship'. They set out to help another planet in distress, where the Japanese people wander about in shiny Arab headgear, and the world leader resembles Ghenghis Khan if he'd been a cross dresser. Ken leaves the ship against orders so that he can skip and prance across the landscape, and gets arrested for some reason(probably his red and white Power Rangers jumpsuit offended the locals). Captain Joe, who resembles a squirrel and looks like he's hiding nuts in his cheeks, decides to break Ken out so that he can help the alien band leader in his cell escape. A stupid escape attempt then follows, heavy on the blinking Christmas lights and idiots in bad costumes shooting at our hero with plastic toy guns.Ken is injured, and is helped by his former girlfriend Rita(these are alien people, right? Do the Japanese consider Americans 'alien'? Well, I suppose that wouldn't be really surprising if they did) a girl in a long blonde wig. She's hunted him down to kill him because the guy he killed was her brother, and the law of their planet says that she has to kill him personally as next of kin to the victim. But of course she can't put us out of our viewing misery by just carrying out her orders like a good little girl. No, she dies and Ken continues to breathe. He and Sargeant Pepper get back to the ship and take off, and Ken moons over a pendant that belonged to the dead girl. And that's when a scroll comes up on the screen that says: To Be Continued. Aggghhh! Will the pain never cease?

JeffG. This "movie" is really just several episodes of a Japanese TV show stringed together, and it shows. It makes absolutely no sense whatsoever! This was obviously Japanese television's attempt to cash in on the success of "Star Wars." This movie is really badly dubbed as well. Although I think it would be bad subtitled as well.On the positive end, it was turned onto a really funny MST3K episode. So it's not a total loss!