Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn (1983)

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

Its not fair to compare special effects and production 30 years removed, but considering that this gem is sandwiched in a era that produced movies such as Alien, Star Wars IV, V , Back to the Future and the such, this 3D movie is much more akin to a straight to VHS (pre-dvd sales) video then anything else. Watching it , I kept saying to myself, I cannot believe this was released to theater and not a Sunday night movie on ABC back in the day.I will not reveal any spoilers, there isn't much to reveal anyways, its a low value, low budge "B" scifi flick, that doesn't as much reveal any story as it does carry along with a soft overlay of one.I've seen plenty of films of this ilk, but have to say, this is a fairly poor effort even by "B" standards.

You're brain will surely melt away watching this movie. The weird mutant cyborg man shoots acid from his robotic appendage and he does melt at least one person in the movie.The main character is very typical of 80's science fiction being a pirate, thief or slave that finds out he is a prince. A great movie to watch if you are paralyzed and cant get away while being on heavy tranquilizers, or a great movie to make very young people watch and be so confused about what is going on. I suppose for its day back in the 80's it was amazing, but today the special effects are cheesy, look cheap and cant stand up next to the movies of today.

I saw this in the theaters as a young teen as well. I was very easily entertained then. Still am I'm afraid, but this was - and remains - the worst thing I have ever seen.I generally LOVE bad films; I can find the entertainment buried deeply in the worst dreck but, geez, this had nothing! The acting, the writing, the effects, even the "3-D" was barely there. The directing was pretty much limited to "point the camera at the actors".The title "Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn" gives it away - plot and quality. The producers wanted a film called "Metalstorm", content being more or less irrelevant. And the rest of the movie is summarized after the colon.I have never walked out of a film, but this is the closest I have come yet.

I remember renting this off the back of 'SPACEHUNTER-ADVENTURES IN THE FORBIDDEN ZONE' (Another 1983 3-D post apocalyptic-space romp) and was majorly disappointed. It sucks hard!!! WEIRD SCIENCE is a better killer-mutie movie than this! It's boring as hell, but maybe worth a note, as it's from 80's schlock-obscuri-god CHARLES BAND, who made amazing films like TRANCERS, DOLL-MAN, TERROR-VISION, TROLL, PARASITE(with an early roll for DEMI MOORE), CRAWLSPACE and I think he maybe did THE STUFF too! Either way, this film stinks. I'm surprised to see it stars a young Kelly Preston, but then she was also in her hubbys' BATTLEFIELD EARTH, which this flick is comparable to! URK!!