The Man Who Saved the World (1982)

Best movie of this year hands down!

Very best movie i ever watch

So much average

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

This is, without a doubt, the worst thing ever committed to film. Compared to this , Manos is Citizen Kane, Monster a Go-Go is Casablanca, and Leonard Part Six is... still dire, but not Turkish Star Wars. Most bad films have something to redeem them. Manos has bad writing acting and cinematography, but is so darn quirky and at least looks like they made an effort, given that almost nobody in the production had major film experience. Plan Nine from Outer Space has flashes of competence and a cameo by Bela Lugosi.Turkish Star Wars has none of that. It was written by and starred a man described as one of the leading actors of his time in Turkey. Makes me wonder if the Turkish film industry association played a recording of Ed Wood talking about how to make films backwards so they could find the secret message or something. Everything about this "movie" is incompetent, bad or incompetently bad. They took a theatrical print of Star Wars, cannibalized it, threw the resulting film clips in the air and randomly spliced them in as special effects. Our "Heroes" in their space ship are pretty obviously sitting in front of a rear-projection screen as said random clips (some of which include ground-based scenes!!!) are screened behind them.The original footage is no better. The editing is so choppy as to make what we're watching incomprehensible, the story is inscrutable, with dialogue that is clunky and anvilicious when it's not trying and failing to be funny. Twice, the entire plot (or unreasonable facsimile) drops away to give us minutes-long ads for Islam and Christianity. (As a Catholic, I'm usually gratified to find snippets of faith in a film, but this had no subtlety, basically coming out and saying "Islam is good -- why aren't you Muslim?" and "Christians are great people" with zero attempt to weave it in with the story.) Much of the film's runtime consists of our two "heroes" engaging in "Bruce Lame", "Jackie Chump", "Chow-yun Fail" and "Toshiro Miserable"-style martial arts antics punctuated by special effects that would make even an amateur cringe -- the villain is killed at the end by our "hero" chopping him in two with a karate chop. Their idea of a convincing special effect to show the bifurcated corpse was to film his face while covering up half the lens, blacking out half the screen.Nothing is explained. They're chasing a golden brain for some reason. They need to save the Earth (which the opening spiel claims has already been destroyed) from destruction. The Magician (our villain for this evening) wants the heroes' human brains (since this is Turkish Star Wars, he'd probably be better off not bothering...) to defeat the Death Star for some unclear reason. Entire ancient Christian churches and medieval Islamic mosques survived millennia in space and re-entry to land on Planet Whogivsadam. Luke Skydorker gets the universe's most ridiculously-shaped wooden sword and said brain, melts them down, places his bare hands in the resulting goop and comes out with golden gloves which deflect laser beams or something. And somehow also gets golden boots (even though he didn't stick his feet into the gilded slop). The love interest just stares at him mutely throughout the movie until he finds the brain at which time she can suddenly talk. TIE Fighters fly backwards. Satan and guys wearing racist caricature masks of Chinese and Africans are villains. Cylons appear. John Williams, John Barry and Queen are hideously abused. Battles use the TARDIS noise. Mobs of people -- good guys? Bad guys? Random spectators? People who want to gawk at a hideous train wreck? Take your pick -- appear and disappear from scenes at random. Bert I Gordon is also ripped off. And none of it makes any $%^&#@$^*& sense. Turkish Star Wars is not a movie. It is not a film. It is a sequence of random events committed to celluloid with the veneer of a narrative cobbled on to it to try to make it seem legit. It's like a 12-year old made a move... only with fewer "fart" jokes.After watching this horrid piece of sludge, I had to cleanse my shattered psyche by watching a certified cinema classic. I watched Plan Nine from Outer Space. Ah, the competence, tight story telling and spectacular special effects of Ed Wood -- just the antidote for Turkish Star Wars!

quote ''The space people had advanced technology and guns, but they had no brains'' a part of the prelude - what a convincing excerpt.. what a story...man.. weightless rocks Cuneyt is lifting and throwing probably once had weight and hit the producer's head! how the hell did this movie hit the theaters without a sane person noticing it... mystery to me. if its a done deal before you watch that you'll see something stupid, go - on... don't take it serious.. thats the key. but despite some views here I guarantee that you will not last more than 10 minutes before you lose your patience and escape from this piece of crap. I hated to write such a dull review therefore give you a bright side of it : that is; you will like the next movie you will watch...even bollywood musicals may look as a masterpiece to you after watching this movie, well, for a while.

So yes, we have here another Turkish action flick. Çetin İnanç's "Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam" - which means "The Man Who Saved the World" in English - is commonly known as the Turkish "Star Wars", but the only connection is that it incorporates footage from George Lucas's masterpiece. It also uses the Indiana Jones theme music. Among the WTF scenes are whistling that summons skeletons (which appear to be people wearing strings of cotton in the shape of bones) and monsters that look like sports mascots. And then there's the villain: he wears an over-sized spiked helmet (what's the deal with all these villains who wear these impractical outfits?). Oh, and the Death Star is a Death Egg.Basically, this is one of those movies that has to be seen to be believed. You'll probably only be able to find it on pirated DVDs, but when you do find it and watch it, you'll agree that it's like nothing that you've ever seen. Other cool Turkish ripoffs of famous movies include "Şeytan" (the Turkish "Exorcist"), "Sevimli Frankenştayn" (the Turkish "Young Frankenstein") and "Badi" (the Turkish "E.T."). No Turkish ripoffs of "Psycho" or "The Shining" are known to exist as far as I know, but they'll be hard-pressed to be as bizarre as this movie. Or as bizarre as the Soviet version of "Mary Poppins" (yes, there was one).

I know that it's been a long while since this movie has come out. Still I felt the need to write a comment, seeing that all the others I've read don't do any justice to The Man Who Saves The World.The only thing that can be said about this movie is that it's unique - it's as simple as that. It's not good, it's not bad; it's something beyond those concepts. Even if the greatest directors, screen writers, actors, and producers of our era get together and try to create something similar to this with an unlimited budget, they'd fail miserably. No matter how long you'll live and how many movies you'll watch, you'll never see anything like this.Maybe you will hate it, or maybe you'll absolutely love it; it doesn't matter. The Man Who Saves The World is a must-see for not only movie goers, bu for all human beings everywhere. So rent it, download it, steal it, whatever. Just find it and spend the next hour and a half in complete amazement and utter disbelief.