Star Knight

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I bought this movie for very little and I must say, any B-rate sci-fi movie fan would get a kick out of this. The idea is a solid one: a space-faring explorer comes to medieval Earth on a survey mission and falls in love with a princess. The one who wants to claim her love (and become a knight and heir to the throne) is like Ash from "Army of Darkness" in that he never gives up, but he really has no idea what is going on. The music score is lame, the acting sub-par (even Keitel), the plot weak, and the special effects very poorly done. However, the movie almost has a tongue-in-cheek feel to it. MST3K fans can make good use of this film for a "MST3K party". Sitting around, heckling this film with your buddies while drinking beer and eating nachos would make a fantastic night. Caution: don't pay more than $8 for this, as you may feel very ripped off, even if you have the MST3K party.

Starring Klaus Kinski, Harvey Keitel, Fernando Rey - these guys are entertaining as usual... fun performances to watch. It's an okay story - not grand but there are worse films out there to watch. This one is entertaining in a strange way. It is what it is: a medieval fantasy meets a space alien who becomes a "Star Knight". Only one major flaw: The breathing. The alien could not breathe Earth's atmosphere so has to wear his armor to breathe but there is a point at the end where Klever ends up in the outfit - how is he breathing in it if the space suit has air the alien can breathe in? Also Fray Lupo ends up in the space ship without a space suit to breathe in - yet he's breathing just fine. -- Maybe the space suit and space ship adjusts so the person in it can breathe? Overall - really corny fun! I enjoyed it in a strange sorta way. 4/10

This movie just plain stinks. An alien spacecraft terrorizes the local villagers by just flying around and doing NOTHING. The alien falls in love with the princess but can't come out of his suit to..... well you know. This princess falls for the alien, I guess because he can't talk or something. Anyway, phooey. However, if you want a good laugh check out Harvey Keitel, he is so out of place here. I just don't know how he got suckered into this film.

(The title of this movie translates to Star Knight in English)man.i'm not sure what i just witnessed.i know there is some comedy,but it isn't the good kind.i think it was intended to be funny,but it fell flat,in my eyes.there is also some bad acting.although to be fair,the dialogue was translated from Spanish to English,so maybe a lot got lost in the translation and the actors had a hard time being in sync with the dubbed dialogue.anyway,Harvey Keitel is in this,but he looks kinda embarrassed.but maybe i'm just imagining it.this is supposed to be a romance,adventure sci-fi,but it sure is boring.i found the plot ridiculous,to put it mildly.my head hurt from watching it.in my opinion,if you wanted to watch this movie,i think your best bet would be to catch it on TV.that way,you won't be out any money.i got this movie really cheap,and i still feel cheated.i think i've gotten the required ten lines of text in,so i'll end by saying that for me,Star Knight is 1/10

Previous reviewers seem to have missed the comedy in Star Knight, which I liked. Harvey Keitel's Brooklyn accent recalled Tony Curtis in Spartacus. The nurse cries out, "What if something happens?" I wondered the same thing watching Knights of the Round Table (1953), a terrible movie. In Star Knight the priest is a superstitious kook of Falwellian proportions; the villagers talk back to Klever and assault the count's herald with a chamber pot; the alien abducts skinnydipping princess Alba but can't make love to her because of his invincible spacesuit - even though the spaceship supports the the life of the unprotected priest just fine at the end of the movie. Star Knight tells Alba telepathically that if he removes his armor and makes love to her he'll die - she pesters him to do it anyway. Typical star-crossed lovers. I enjoyed this movie even more the second time. Keitel's scenes are hilarious. Star Knight isn't a great movie and isn't supposed to be, but it's pretty good.

Seeing Klaus Kinski, Harvey Keitel, Fernando Rey in the cast, I just wanted to see the movie. All three, and especially Kinski, have given their strength, playing their roles very well. But the film is nothing but a baby story, without any other claim. Some have asked why actors such as Kinski and Keitel have agreed to play in such "rubbish." I answer them from the point of view of the actor: the actors are also people, they need money, they have to eat, and 90% of what they are offered, I refer to roles, scenarios, are rubbish.

I was reading what the guy above said about it and no i have no clue how Harvey got suckered into doing this film. it is raw comedy for him. Typical princess meets the man of her dreams and can't have him film with Harvey as the knight who loves her and her money and is gonna kill the one she loves to impress the dad and princess, marry her, and thus be rich. Only problem is, he can't...and the idiocy of his fighting with a man who cannot be beaten...he is in an IRON suit which a bunch of swords cannot penetrate, is a riot! This must have been done during the BAD years when he had to buy baby formula and stuff. But see it just for the HUMOR and likeness to those crazy 60's sci-fi flicks like "It Came From Outer Space".

If you are a fan of Klaus Kinski as I am then you must own this movie. Watch it once, check it off your list, then never watch it again. What a waste of celluloid, time, and effort. Quite simply this is an enormously huge waste of time. Think of all of the hungry children the budget of this film could have fed.......