S.S. Doomtrooper (2006),The Scifi Channel did it again. They made another shallow monster movie that made me whence. Just like the Scifi Channel movie "The Fallen Ones" (2005), the Scifi Channel made the science too hokey and the monsters too over the top, unbelievable. I can understand showing some slow evil transformation that adds some bulk to a human frame, but doubling the hight and adding a ton of muscles to a person in a few seconds? That goes way beyond artistic license. The plot was a simple "what if" story, if they have had a serious treatment of science, S.S. probably would have gotten a 6.5/10), but S.S. ended up being a mix of Wolfenstine, a blue/gray "Incredible Hulk", and scifi lite. One cannot casually toss Nazis,scientists, lightning flashes, and super-weapons together like some cake mix, half bake it and expect it not to fall. Look at the movie "Hellboy"(2004), they had evil looking Nazis and have believable looking monsters and they got 6.6/10. If there had been a little more comedy and slapstick added you would have a ubber campy cheesy movie homage to evil Nazis that people would laugh and love (probably make 5/10), kind of like the movie "Army of Darkness"(1993) or "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid"(1982), but in its current form, It is unfulfulling, unbelievable, and just fills a two hour time slot with WWII thread bare themes. Please Scifi Channel, learn from your last movies or start showing good scifi "B" movies from the past. I watched S.S. again weeks later. The humor did help the movie and made it watchable but the science still makes me flinch. The actors did a decent job with the limited plot, keeping it from sliding to a 2/10. I give it a 3.5/10 the second time.
Review of S.S. Doomtrooper
S.S. Doomtrooper
(2006 TV Movie)
Alas, Scifi channel, there they go again, using a box cake mix
1 May 2006