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Future War

  • Video
  • 1997
  • Unrated
  • 1h 30m
IMDb RATING
1.7/10
4.6K
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Daniel Bernhardt in Future War (1997)
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Time TravelActionFantasySci-FiThriller

A run-away human slave from Earth's future escapes to the present.A run-away human slave from Earth's future escapes to the present.A run-away human slave from Earth's future escapes to the present.

  • Director
    • Anthony Doublin
  • Writers
    • David Huey
    • Dom Magwili
  • Stars
    • Daniel Bernhardt
    • Robert Z'Dar
    • Travis Brooks Stewart
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    1.7/10
    4.6K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Anthony Doublin
    • Writers
      • David Huey
      • Dom Magwili
    • Stars
      • Daniel Bernhardt
      • Robert Z'Dar
      • Travis Brooks Stewart
    • 119User reviews
    • 22Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Daniel Bernhardt
    Daniel Bernhardt
    • The Runaway
    Robert Z'Dar
    Robert Z'Dar
    • Cyborg Master
    Travis Brooks Stewart
    • Sister Ann
    Kazja
    • Cyborg
    Ray Adash
    • Capt. Polaris
    Andre Scruggs
    • Fred Burroughs
    • (as Andre Skruggs)
    David Jacobs
    • Romero
    Aldo Juliano
    Aldo Juliano
    • Oscar
    • (as Al Juliano)
    Matthew Sakimoto
    • Max
    Art Cruz
    • Mike
    • (as Arthur Cruz)
    Joanne Takahashi
    • Dr. Margaret Tanaka
    Mary Shelton
    • Medical Examiner
    Tracy Robertson
    • Chadwick
    Tom Richards
    • Cameron
    Forrest J. Ackerman
    Forrest J. Ackerman
    • Park Victim
    Mel Novak
    • Otis - SWAT Team
    Maureen Byrnes
    • Maggie Martin
    Glenn Hoeffner
    • Homeless Person
    • Director
      • Anthony Doublin
    • Writers
      • David Huey
      • Dom Magwili
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    User reviews119

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    1OldManBrodie

    Worst.... movie.... ever....

    this movie deserves to be higher than #5 on the 100 worst movies ever. although words are inadequate to describe how bad this movie is, "wretched," "pitiful," "embarassingly horrible," and "p*** poor" all come to mind.

    i can't imagine that the writer and director were serious when they made this. either they must have been joking, or they made this from inside their room in the asylum. actually, that would explain the lack of decent acting and props, too....

    anyway, i watched this on MST3K, and even that couldn't get me to finish watching this movie. i got almost to the end, but i feared that if i watched the whole thing, my brain would explode, i would have to gouge out my eyes, or the universe would end... maybe all three.

    if you are thinking about watching this movie without the MST3K guys, you should go see a doctor. the kind who sits you on a couch. if you really want to subject yourself to this with the MST3K guys, i'd suggest purchasing some beverages to go along with it. it's the only way you'll get through it.
    Katatonia

    Yep, one of the worst Sci-Fi movies ever made

    This was made in 1995 and it looks more like 1965. Very low budget, boring plot, horrible acting, really bad special effects, etc...

    I rarely ever see a Sci-Fi film i absolutely think is this bad. I mean this is pure garbage. It has nothing going for it either, as far as a "Cyber" movie this is the very bottom of the lot. There is nothing really futuristic in this, it's quite misleading. If you were expecting a low-budget "Terminator" think again.

    Cyborgs and Dinosaurs? Well, the Cyborgs look more like they're wearing tin-foil suits painted black. The Dinosaurs are literally puppets, a blind person wouldn't even be fooled into suspending his disbelief that these are real Dinosaurs.

    Does it have anything else going for it? I'm trying really hard to think of something...but there is nothing. No nudity, No gore, No comedy, no "War" (just a few meaningless fights).

    I think i would be more entertained by staring at a blank piece of paper for 90 minutes. Junk like this gives good low-budget "B" movies a bad name. This makes Ed Wood movies look good.

    Avoid this waste at all costs! Oh the humanity!
    1counterrevolutionary

    Schlock

    The thing about watching direct-to-video movies is, just when you think you've seen the worst, you see something even worse.

    But it's going to be hard to top *Future War*.

    It plays like someone had access to a couple of cyborg costumes, a couple of dinosaur hand puppets, and a guy who looked vaguely like Jean-Claude Van Damme, and decided to make a movie around them.

    If he had only had decent actors, literate scriptwriters, and a competent director, he might have really had something.

    It's a shame, too, that I couldn't like this movie at least a little; it attempts (though badly, of course) the sort of sympathetic portrayal of Christianity that I wish more *real* movies had.
    willywants

    You get the 8MM camera, I'll get my little brother's monster toys, we'll make a movie!!!!!

    A race of evil cyborgs kidnap humans from Earth's future to use as slaves, and take dinosaurs from the past to use as trackers. One of their slaves, the Runaway, escapes and makes his way to present-day Los Angeles. There he must fend off the cyborgs and their trackers, the police, and the government, befriended by a prostitute-turned-nun who runs a halfway house. Why would ANYONE in a modern time like 1997 make a stinker like THIS!?!?!?!?!? With actors that are as wooden as a cigar store indian, a script that was written by the director's 4-year-old son, a camera that was stolen from a burning pawn shop, poverty-row monster effects that were achieved by holding plush dino toys in front of the screen, and to top it off, a (once successful effects-man) director that thought making this crap would make them famous. ONLY watch the MST3K version!
    dootuss

    It didn't show us the future, there was no war, but there were plenty of cardboard boxes.

    Yep, this movie really sucked. In fact it sucked so bad! The acting was horrible, the plot sucked, and the dinosaurs are hand puppets (as some have said). And the Jean Claude Van-Damme wannabe is lame as hell. Of course, I could be wrong on the dinosaurs, but the rest is true oh yes the rest of what I said about this horrible movie is true to the last drop.

    Stay away from this crap unless you see Mike Nelson, Tom Servo, and Crow T. Robot sitting in a theatre, and riffing it.

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    • Trivia
      During filming, producer Dave Eddy and some other crew members remarked that it would be great if the film appeared on Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1988), which it ultimately did.
    • Goofs
      The cyborgs capture the slaves from Earth because they cannot make things themselves, so they get the slaves to do it for them. But if so, then how did the cyborgs build their spaceships and time machines in the first place that made the slave capturing possible?
    • Quotes

      Sister Ann: Who are you?

      The Runaway: A tool.

    • Crazy credits
      The persons, creatures and events in this motion picture are fictitious. Any similarities to actual persons, creatures or events is unintentional.
    • Connections
      Featured in Mystery Science Theater 3000: Future War (1999)

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    • Release date
      • April 21, 2005 (Germany)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • 遠古戰未來
    • Filming locations
      • Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production companies
      • Cine Excel Entertainment
      • Silver Screen International
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 30m(90 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
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