[Kemal]

This movie is a great, epic tragedy. It is set in the distant future when a starving Earth travels to a distant planet searching for resources. The story's protagonist is a heroic, but ultimately doomed, mercenary colonel who fights to bring civilization to this backwards planet and tap its wealth for the good of all mankind.

Standing in the way of progress(and threatening humanity with famine and collapse) are a race of primitive, superstitious savages that look like elves with blue skin. The space elves exist in an appalling state of barbarism that could only be admired by people who have never had to shit in a slit trench and watch their children die of malnutrition. These brutes are so mean-spirited and petty that they are preventing humanity from developing a planet that could be used to help billions. They are aided in their selfish obstructionism by a psychic human scoundrel who betrays not only his his comrades but his entire species, making him the greatest Quisling in human history. Much of the movie is unfortunately consumed with this one-dimensional idiot's personal dramas as he lives among the elves.

But then enter the heroic colonel. The colonel is simply the most badass motherfucker in the entire universe. He is lethally efficient, cooly incinerating his enemies by the hundreds over a cup of coffee. Leading an army from the front, he drops from the sky piloting a giant war robot and lays waste to all before him. Savage hordes of space elves fall under his machine guns like wheat under a thresher. Then he blows up everything from horizon to horizon before engaging in personal combat with the traitor.

Like the warriors in Norse mythology, the colonel is ultimately doomed. The writers of hollywood, with their naive idealization of the primitive, will not allow such a figure to survive. But the tragic nobility of his struggle and the sheer badassery of his final battle make this epic tale worth seeing.