I loved Guyver or The Mutronics as it was known here in England & it was one of my first movies on video, big Ex-rental video & i watched it tons of times growing & it became a childhood Classic to me.
A great rubber-suited fun late-night monster movie with a super cool alien armoured action hero, a perfect fantasy film growing up.
Still the best Guyver flick.
The practical special effects are truly amazing, even more so than todays over-the-top c.g.i crap. The Guyver suit looks Awesome & i love all the different creatures or Zoenoids, fantastic rubber-suited monsters & the cast is great too with Mark Hamill (Star Wars films,Sleepwalkers,Village of the Damned) as a Cop named Max Reed, investigating the shady Chronos Corporation & to be honest he steals the film (even though he has extremely cheesy lines though) & it's a good fun role as he looks abit "Blade Runner" with his big jacket & i like the veteran B-movie & Horror legend Michael Berryman (The Hills Have Eyes, Double Dragon) as a monster henchman who turns into one of the Coolest movie monsters ever!!! Amazing fx & i love the Guyver's main theme score & i love the gritty urban night time setting of Los Angeles complete with gang graffiti covered walls & punks in alleyways, a great place for our weedy Karate kid Sean Barker to transform into the Guyver & battle mutants.
I gotta admit that often the dialogue is extremely corny, cheesy & often ridiculous & i wish the Guyver would've been more brutal when fighting anyone (especially those silly punks in the alley) but we do get a better Guyver battling the Zoenoids in the excellent sequel that is less goofy but it's also alot longer with much more talking scenes, so although the first film is very silly & goofy in parts it's still very entertaining & fast paced in it's low-budget B-movie charm.
Some great fight sequences & a weird mixed tone of Horror monster action & fantasy comic-book thrills but all works pretty fine really even with it's often childish humour & silly badguys abit on the TMNT level but all in a goofy fun way & always enjoyable in a way but then can turn into dark violent horror territory, it's really got a unique tone but i do wish it dropped some of the stupid gags that are not funny but the comic humour actually comes from the parts that are supposed to be the serious moments, such as when Mark Hamill starts to mutate, his leg shakes crazily & he grabs it & says "My God" in a totally corny bad-acting way & it's hilarious!!!
I do have a nice Nostalgic attachment to this first Guyver as it's the one i grew up watching from little & it always had a big impact on me.
The monster suits & designs are truly a work of art & are still some of the greatest practical creature effects I've ever seen. The whole production looks great & with a real dark gritty urban feel that helps kind of ground all the fantasy stuff.
The Guyver definitely has a late-night B-movie vibe (as it all pretty much takes place at night) to it & that's one of the things i always loved about it & it's weird tone that skips from very silly power rangers episode style corniness to dark superhero territory, it's always entertaining though.
I still class this oddity from my childhood a Masterpiece though because it's such a bizarre mixture of genre's that never really finds it's true tone but is so fun crazy fun & a perfect late-night B-movie fantasy piece.
The Amazing low-budget & straight-to-video sequel "Guyver: Dark Hero" is great too (mainly for it's more violent fight sequences) but both great films in my opinion & this first film is a Nostalgic Childhood Classic for me & was my first ever introduction to the Guyver so it remains my favourite Guyver movie.
Both Guyver films are good for different reasons.
A great rubber-suited fun late-night monster movie with a super cool alien armoured action hero, a perfect fantasy film growing up.
Still the best Guyver flick.
The practical special effects are truly amazing, even more so than todays over-the-top c.g.i crap. The Guyver suit looks Awesome & i love all the different creatures or Zoenoids, fantastic rubber-suited monsters & the cast is great too with Mark Hamill (Star Wars films,Sleepwalkers,Village of the Damned) as a Cop named Max Reed, investigating the shady Chronos Corporation & to be honest he steals the film (even though he has extremely cheesy lines though) & it's a good fun role as he looks abit "Blade Runner" with his big jacket & i like the veteran B-movie & Horror legend Michael Berryman (The Hills Have Eyes, Double Dragon) as a monster henchman who turns into one of the Coolest movie monsters ever!!! Amazing fx & i love the Guyver's main theme score & i love the gritty urban night time setting of Los Angeles complete with gang graffiti covered walls & punks in alleyways, a great place for our weedy Karate kid Sean Barker to transform into the Guyver & battle mutants.
I gotta admit that often the dialogue is extremely corny, cheesy & often ridiculous & i wish the Guyver would've been more brutal when fighting anyone (especially those silly punks in the alley) but we do get a better Guyver battling the Zoenoids in the excellent sequel that is less goofy but it's also alot longer with much more talking scenes, so although the first film is very silly & goofy in parts it's still very entertaining & fast paced in it's low-budget B-movie charm.
Some great fight sequences & a weird mixed tone of Horror monster action & fantasy comic-book thrills but all works pretty fine really even with it's often childish humour & silly badguys abit on the TMNT level but all in a goofy fun way & always enjoyable in a way but then can turn into dark violent horror territory, it's really got a unique tone but i do wish it dropped some of the stupid gags that are not funny but the comic humour actually comes from the parts that are supposed to be the serious moments, such as when Mark Hamill starts to mutate, his leg shakes crazily & he grabs it & says "My God" in a totally corny bad-acting way & it's hilarious!!!
I do have a nice Nostalgic attachment to this first Guyver as it's the one i grew up watching from little & it always had a big impact on me.
The monster suits & designs are truly a work of art & are still some of the greatest practical creature effects I've ever seen. The whole production looks great & with a real dark gritty urban feel that helps kind of ground all the fantasy stuff.
The Guyver definitely has a late-night B-movie vibe (as it all pretty much takes place at night) to it & that's one of the things i always loved about it & it's weird tone that skips from very silly power rangers episode style corniness to dark superhero territory, it's always entertaining though.
I still class this oddity from my childhood a Masterpiece though because it's such a bizarre mixture of genre's that never really finds it's true tone but is so fun crazy fun & a perfect late-night B-movie fantasy piece.
The Amazing low-budget & straight-to-video sequel "Guyver: Dark Hero" is great too (mainly for it's more violent fight sequences) but both great films in my opinion & this first film is a Nostalgic Childhood Classic for me & was my first ever introduction to the Guyver so it remains my favourite Guyver movie.
Both Guyver films are good for different reasons.