Iron Sky (2012)

Iron sky

5/10

Starring

Julia Dietze
Christopher Kirby
Götz Otto
Peta Sergeant
Stephanie Paul
Udo Kier

Directed by Timo Vuorensola

Sometimes dreams are glimpses of the future, of what is to come. Some people get the best ideas from fantasies, some from dreams.

The idea for this movie was conceived by Jarmo Puskala in a dream. He told the director Timo Vuorensola about his dream in a sauna, and Vuorensola replied he would make it into a film, which he did. Now, you may see this movie and ask yourself, maybe living things in the dream world is the best idea or the best thing they could have done with their time, but as you can see, they went with making the movie.

Some of the funding for the movie came from fans, and the movie made notable references to Star Wars, Jaws, and others. The movie was shot in Frankfurt, Germany. Iron Sky is a Finnish-German-Austrian science fiction comedy about Nazis setting up a secret base on the moon in 1945 (World War II), where they hide out and plan to return to power in 2018.

The moon scenes showed some very intense graphic effects for a movie of this nature (a B-movie), and the space battle scenes also featured well-choreographed CGI. On the moon base, we see a human race growing on technology that was already in focus back in 1945. The Nazis kidnapped an astronaut sent to the moon by the US, and he had with him a mobile phone, which had enough processing power to drive the moon base’s dreams of world conquest.

Now, the movie is a goof, and that’s clear from the start. It’s a better goof movie than a scary movie type because, come to think of it, what is an astronaut doing on the moon with a mobile phone?

Also, it was strange that the Nazis hadn’t seen a black man before, and how come the atmosphere was conducive in some areas on the moon, but not so in others? Well, like I said, the movie is a goof, so such things are allowed.

Acting and directing: to me, the directing was well done as the director had to work with vivid imagery from a dreamer, but the acting needed some work. In general, the acting was lame and the lines were so bad I felt I could write better (seriously). That being said, the screenplay and the events that unfold will keep you watching.

I can’t outright recommend this movie to anyone, but I did enjoy it. Enough said.