This Italian sci-fi film, originally titled L’umanoide, gives Richard Kiel top billing as a kindly pilot who is turned into a hulking, destructive automaton by a wicked scientist working with an evil tyrant. Barbara Bach plays an evil space queen who lives on young women’s blood and works with the tyrant and the scientist as well. A fairly nonsensical story with some poor special effects and rather too many echoes of Star Wars keeps this one from being as entertaining as it be.

  Not recommended. Otto thinks you should avoid this movie unless you are a completist fan of one of the performers or want to see Kiel in a good-guy role (at least part of the time).

Movie 480 for 2021.