Aw, what the?! Nothing ticks me off more than having a good cast and ruining it with a bum storyline and cheap not-so-special FX. Starring Matt Dillion and Jennifer Tilly, you better know the whereabouts of your....
    Remote Control
At a video-store, a certain video-tape is flying off the rental shelves! No, it's not anything made by Chevy Chase! It's Remote Control, a retro 50's sci-fi flick. It's got everything: plot, special FX, characters, and a signal that causes the viewer to become a homicidal zombie-like freak! Actually, I would've rented "Beverly Hills Ninja," but that's me...

Cosmo, a worker at the rental store, helps save a Reynolds-Wrap dressed girl escape from her boyfriend, who fell under Remote Control's influence. Realizing something is up, they try to solve the murders, but instead get framed for them by the entire cop cast of "Police Academy," only without Steve Guttenberg, thank goodness.

Cosmo and "Reynolds" try to find where the tapes are being made. They do, and realize a horrible truth. Sit down for this beauty: Remote Control tapes are made by aliens in an attempt to conquer mankind after everyone winds up dead. Pretty much what Nixon had in mind, but STILL....

So, they blow up the factory, and go on a mission to destroy all the tapes. By some miracle of God (and the miracle of a low-budget), they destroy every tape and celebrate. Or not. See for yourself.

The cast was actually interesting, but they were thrown into Hell, or more accurately, they were given this script. Yeah, aliens making 50's movies to kill us all, yet the factory is somewhere in Chicago. Uh-huh. I buy that. The real talent to watch for is Christopher Wynne, who plays Cosmo's sidekick for all of 5 minutes. Too bad. We have minimum special effects to talk of, and the ones that are there are pretty mediocre. No wonder why they named this movie like they did. Click!

Rating:

Joe Mamma, Official Pit Psychopath

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