Movie Monday: Zone Troopers

I was at Mechacon on Friday, so I didn't have time to do a post. Sorry. 

Zone Troopers is a straight-to-video science fiction film from the 1980's. This alone should tell you all you need to know about it's quality (hint: it's crappy) However, the saving grace of this movie is the plot.  It follows four American soldiers during WWII as they fight German soldier in Italy. Oh yeah, and there's space aliens.

The Americans have had their unit decimated by the Nazis and are fortunate enough to even be captured by their enemies along with a fuzzy space alien. The high point of the movie comes during their captivity when all-around bad-ass Corporal "Mittens" Mitinski punches none other than Adolph Hitler right in the face. It's pretty sweet and is generally the high point of the movie.

After this the movie basically consists of the alien and the American's evading and defeating the Nazis....big whoop and yawn. The movie's direct-to-videoness is very apparent and makes the whole movie kind of a snooze-fest.

Look, I know I'm being hard on this movie, but here's the bottom line. It's cheesy, it's interesting, and it managed to somewhat keep me interested.

So I'll give it 3 out of 5 cigarettes.