Flash Gordon (1980)
A football player and his friends travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyrant, Ming the Merciless, to save Earth.
Flash Gordon (1980)
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Released Year: 1980
Runtime: 111 minutes
Directors: Mike Hodges
Casts: Max von Sydow, Deep Roy, Timothy Dalton, George Harris, Robbie Coltrane, William Hootkins, Philip Stone, Brian Blessed, Sam Jones, Ornella Muti, Richard O'Brien, John Hallam, Chaim Topol, Melody Anderson, Peter Wyngarde, Mariangela Melato, John Osborne, Suzanne Danielle, Peter Duncan, Tony Scannell
IMDB: Flash Gordon (1980)
Storyline
A football player and his friends travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyrant, Ming the Merciless, to save Earth.
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Reviews
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Empire -
This campy extravaganza has it all - heroes, villains, beautiful women and high stakes. Laughably bad and fantastically good all at once, this is a guilty pleasure that everyone can enjoy.
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Chicago Sun-Times -
Flash Gordon is played for laughs, and wisely so. It is no more sophisticated than the comic strip it's based on, and that takes the curse off of material that was old before it was born. Is all of this ridiculous? Of course. Is it fun? Yeah, sort of, it is.
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Chicago Reader -
Better than it might have been, given the limitations of this kind of brand-name filmmaking. Hodges doesn't shirk his duties, and though the film lapses too often into easy facetiousness, much of it feels surprisingly substantial. The action moves smoothly and logically, finding a rhythm that engages your attention despite the patent lack of inspiration and genuine commitment.
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Film Threat -
Max von Sydow is flawless as Ming, playing him with the perfect blend of malevolence and evil glee.
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Time Out London -
The narrative is a little plodding, but adult punters will soon slip back into reverie for the lost visions of Saturday morning cinema, and their kids can get off on the extraordinary undercurrent of febrile sexuality. Acting honours go to von Sydow as Ming the Merciless and Mariangela Melato as his dark-eyed henchperson.
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A football player and his friends travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyrant, Ming the Merciless, to save Earth.
A football player and his friends travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyrant, Ming the Merciless, to save Earth.
A football player and his friends travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyrant, Ming the Merciless, to save Earth.