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A football player and his friends travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth.
Flash Gordon is an American football hero who is skyjacked aboard Dr. Hans Zarkov's rocketship along with his beautiful girlfriend Dale Arden. The threesome are drawn into the influence of the planet Mongo, ruled by Emperor Ming the Merciless. The evil Ming has been testing Earth with unnatural disasters, and deeming our world a threat to his rule. He also intends to take Dale as his concubine, attempts to execute Flash and intends to destroy Earth. Flash must avoid the amorous attentions of Ming's daughter, and unite the warring kingdoms of Mongo to rescue Dale and save our world.
This is a sci-fi family blockbuster directed by the chap who gave us the gritty '70s gangster movie Get Carter. Its two leads can't act at all and are barely engaging. The performances are completely uneven to the extent that actors seem to think they're in different films to each other: from plank-like (Sam Jones, Melody Anderson) to straight-faced and serious (Timothy Dalton), to so louche he should have a cocktail in his hand in every scene (Peter Wyndgarde) to barely directed and simply having fun (Brian Blessed) to jokey and slightly hammy (Topol), to pure ham (Mariangela Melato). After Star Wars and Alien had set a benchmark for sci-fi being a bit dark and grimy its like they threw all that out and decided that sci-fi should look polished, shiny and colourful. And the soundtrack is by Queen, with the preposterousness and pomp turned up to eleven. And yet it works, and it works stupendously well. Whilst this isn't my favourite film there are very, very few I enjoy quite as much as Flash Gordon. After a very dull first ten or so minutes involving the aforementioned unengaging leads taking a plane journey we meet Topol's Dr Hans Zarkov and the pace, and sense of fun, never lets up until the end. Its extraordinary stuff with so many memorable set-pieces: Ming's first on-screen appearance to Queen's menacing synth music, Flash's ludicrous game of "American Football" in Ming's throne room, the tree- stump monster, the whip battle on the tilting platform (with retracting spikes, naturally), the hawkmen attacking a rocketship. And so many brilliant, fun lines: "Flash, flash I love you but we only have fourteen hours to save the earth!", "Dispatch war rocket Ajax to brrring back his body!", "Gordon's alive?!!" Incredibly for a film with two such poor lead performances everyone else is brilliant. Topol is on great form as Zarkov bringing the charisma that worked so well in the Bond film For Your Eyes Only, Dalton plays the whole thing utterly straight as chiseled Prince Barrin, Blessed is essentially just playing himself but it would be half the film without him, Peter Wyngarde manages to give Klytus an air of upper-class menace from behind a metal mask and Max von Sydow portrays Emperor Ming so well that he manages to make an essentially 2D B-movie type villain into someone who comes across as complex and interesting. I hesitate to use phrases like "popcorn movie" or "leave your brain at the door" about Flash Gordon because that's doing it a massive injustice. This is a brilliant, funny, clever, outrageously camp and even slightly subversive film hiding in the most commercial of genres. We will never see its likes again and that's a shame.
I have purchased as many DVDs and VHS copies as needed for my big family as Christmas gifts. It will thrill all members from 4-104, so I know I can't go wrong. Neither can you! Don't miss this vintage character, Flash Gordon, in his 1980 spectacular update! It is sort of tongue-in-cheek ,perhaps , but certainly captures the original strip's far out sci-fi feeling,and visual impact-- and beyond Too bad I missed it on the big screen, it must have been smashing, but you too, will be very satisfied with a home video version. Whatever your age this is totally cool! The story concept contains many twists and turns, and the variety of evil doers are truly eye-popping. I particularly loved the "non-sophisticacation" of the film. I appreciated an absence of "Hollywood over-kill special effects". They managed to pull this film off with minimal bombing and ear-drum shattering sound effects! A must see!
The only good thing about this would-be camp version of the classic 1936 serial is the impressive production design by Danilo Donati.
well Let's put it this way: you can walk, yet you still travel by car, don't you? As much as I like the previous answer, there was a small blurb explaining the rocket cycles in a pre-production note. Something about using them as emergency transportation for injured hawk-people who couldn't fly. a5c7b9f00b

Flash Gordon Malayalam Full Movie Free Download

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