Iron sky 2023 đánh giá review năm 2024

Twenty nine years after nuclear war renders Earth inhabitable, refugees on a former Nazi Moon base are threatened by limited supplies and overpopulation. A power source buried deep beneath Earth's wasted surface could be the key to survival.

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Iron Sky 2

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Languages:

English, German

Countries:

Finland, Germany, Belgium

Cast:

Julia Dietze, Udo Kier, Lara Rossi, Stephanie Paul, Tom Green, Jukka Hildén, Kari Ketonen, Vladimir Burlakov, Edward Judge, Emily Atack

Twenty seven minutes is how long it takes for Iron Sky: The Coming Race to not only jump the shark and nuke the fridge but to go far, far beyond. This film goes right into Highlander 2 territory. You see… it turns out that the Moon Nazis were never the TRUE enemy. Nope. It was aliens all along and that’s enough to raise more than a few eyebrows. Add to this already credulity-stretching plot twist of a cult that worships former Apple CEO Steve Jobs (admittedly with a VERY nice reference to the now famous 1984-inspired “Think Different” advert) and a journey to the centre of the Earth along with magic immortality gummies, and what an audience has assaulting their senses is a mishmash of a story which is admittedly entertaining but definitely tests an audience’s ability to suspend their disbelief.

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Picking up after the end of the first film, Earth has been devastated by nuclear war, with a few thousand survivors fleeing to the old Nazi base on the moon. Years later, degraded equipment, dwindling supplies and increasingly violent moonquakes threaten to spell the end for the survivors. Obi Washington (Lara Rossi), the daughter of Iron Sky heroes Renate Richter (Julia Dietze, who reprises her role here) and James Washington (Christopher Kirby), discovers that not only is the Earth hollow, but hidden there might be the means to save her people. Assuming, of course, that the supposedly-dead Moon Fuhrer (played with gusto by Udo Kier) can actually be trusted. Oh, and Mark Zuckerberg is an alien, as is Margaret Thatcher. Because of course.

This film, as the first did, crams in plenty of nods and winks and references to some truly esoteric stuff. The name of the aliens, for example, “Vril” is taken straight from Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s novel The Coming Race (we see what you did there, movie), which deals with an explorer journeying to the centre of the Earth and discovering an advanced civilization dwelling there.

The main issue here is that the feel and tone of the original movie is quickly discarded in favour of this “throw it at the wall to see what sticks” approach. Nazis, dinosaurs, aliens, nuclear war, the fate of humanity, corny jokes, an attempted romantic sub-plot, immortality, hollow Earth, cults… none of it quite works. The tongue in cheek attitude of the first film is dialled up to 11 here but the problem is that none of it feels coherent. The original Iron Sky, while still a deeply silly film, worked within the the universe it created (the final battle scene in that definitely brought out comparisons to Helsing with the zeppelins blitzing the city). It made sense within the rules the plot imposed. This film, on the other hand, throws all those previously established rules out of the window before even half an hour has gone by. The alien reveal is nearly as jarring as the now infamous “The beginning, five hundred years ago. On the planet Zeist”.

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In terms of the acting, it’s all just… fine. Just fine. Nothing stands out, nothing massively detracts. Udo Kier is a delight to watch as ever and Lara Rossi is just fine as our no-nonsense hero. One major frustration is that they put one of the main characters, Malcolm (Kit Dale) in a red shirt for almost the entire film… and he doesn’t die. They don’t even try to make us think he MIGHT be dead. Talk about a wasted opportunity. Maybe the writers have never watched Star Trek.

Iron Sky: The Coming Race is entertaining enough, but is ultimately a somewhat disappointing mess of a film. Not really good enough to be properly good, not really bad enough to be a potential so-bad-it’s-good cult classic, it’s just kind of forgettable. But it does have alien Adolf Hitler riding a T-Rex on the moon and I can’t think of any other film that has that.

If you did not enjoy Iron Sky, then its sequel will not sway your opinion of the franchise. Iron Sky: The Coming Race doubles down on the ridiculous antics and significant action setpieces. The spectacle of it all is even grander than the first; just remember that the characters are not. For fans, it is precisely the follow up they have been waiting for.

While The Coming Race might not sell the need for this absurd series to continue, it at least provides a reason to go back and watch the original, and help its creators get the money they need to try to recapture their uniquely bizarre form of movie magic.

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Just like the first Iron Sky, the sequel is frustratingly unfocused as a commentary on the modern world — and even more so as a story. It has the seeds of several nifty ideas, scattered loosely, left untended.