Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

XoWizIama Excellent adaptation.

Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Rainey Dawn Well it's a fast paced Japanese sci-fi film. From what I've read, it's from several of the TV serials sorta smashed together to create this movie. It's not completely awful but it's not all that grand of a film either. It's watchable and tolerable if you are very much of a die-hard science fiction fan, but not so much for those that like an occasional science fiction movie.The lead alien villain - the one that tells them to kill everyone on planet earth in the beginning of the film - is really cool and evil looking. He's neat.What is up with the long-haired blonde wigs? I really wish they would have not worn them - it really makes the film look terrible and trashy. Just their space outfits would have been plenty.2/10

Red-Barracuda This unbearable, campy sci-fi action film was seemingly created by editing together several episodes from a Japanese TV series. The result is a very bad film. Its story thrusts you into things with little in the way of explanation. Some aliens called the Wolf Raiders wage war on humanity and attack the Earth. One of the Raiders called Ken refuses to kill an Earth child called Ken, and in doing so angers his people, hence making him...the fugitive alien! It's a nonsense plot but I've encountered way worse. The problem was it made me feel so bored. On paper, quite a lot actually happens in this film but in practice, it's never very interesting.Matters aren't really helped by the dubbing, which is carried out by a group of extremely terrible voice actors. The voices in this film are heavy going on the ears and really try your patience. What doesn't exactly improve matters is the fact that the running time is 102 minutes, which is just way too long for something this crappy. The special effects and costumes are all bargain basement too. But the most disappointing thing about the entire film was the fact that the Wolf Raiders did not sport poodle perm hairdos. Bizarrely, and nonsensically, they seem to merely have wigs attached to their combat helmets. Why this should be is simply one of the mysteries of Fugitive Alien. A mystery I will never solve as I have no intention of revisiting this dreck ever again.

asinyne This is a Japanese production and a pretty good one. Its visually interesting and the plot is easy to follow. I found it to be reasonably entertaining despite a couple of slow spots here and there. There are some campy stuff like the way the characters shrug off tragedy in their lives. The love of Ken's life dies and he pretty much goes on about business without shedding a tear. Captain Joe loses his daughter and Wife and next day he is back at work, eager to get busy. Despite its flaws I enjoyed the look of the show. The ships and space battles look pretty nice, the bad guy looked nasty, and the English dubbing wasn't very distracting. I liked some of the costumes and locations as well. ,,,, You know, to be totally honest about it, if William Shatner had played Captain Joe, there would probably be tons of interest in this neat little science fiction flick. Definitely deserves a much better rating that it gets here. I give it a 5.5...its fun.

Diana Ahhh...Sandy Frank. Who are you, and why do you continue to torment us with truly horrible Japanese movies? If not for you, these stinkers would never have seen the light of day in America. I'm sure the Japanese themselves writhe in agony every time they see one of these poorly dubbed cinematic abominations scrolling across an American t.v. screen.Fugitive Alien is only one of the many quality films imported by the wretched Sandy Frank. It is a series of episodes of a Japanese t.v. show strung together to make an incomprehensible 'movie', a la Riding With Death. That is like taking Gilligan's Island, chopping it up so that it makes no sense whatsoever(that wouldn't take much) slapping some REALLY poor dubbing on it, and sending it over to foreign countries as representations of American culture. While this might, indeed, show a true sense of what American culture is really like(confusing, badly costumed, incoherent, and stupid)would we really want the whole rest of the world to see that?Fugitive Alien tells(badly)the story of the ubiquitous 'Ken', a Valna wolf raider from Valnastar. On his planet, these ferocious warriors trick themselves out in more white face paint than Liza, stupid Rainbow Bright jumpsuits, and helmets that for some reason have curly blonde wigs attached. My theory is that they got laughed at so often for this look that they started killing people out of sheer annoyance. They attack the Earth(or Japan, anyway) and lay waste to Tokyo. Our 'hero' Ken kills his friend and fellow raider when he tries to kill a little boy named...you got, Ken. Apparently the entire universe is peopled with guys names Ken. Go figure. Is there a whole planet full of Barbies out there, too?Now considered a traitor to his people(he refused to wear the splendidly awful outfit anymore) he hooks up with the human crew of the Baccheus 3, 'the Earth's oldest spaceship'. They set out to help another planet in distress, where the Japanese people wander about in shiny Arab headgear, and the world leader resembles Ghenghis Khan if he'd been a cross dresser. Ken leaves the ship against orders so that he can skip and prance across the landscape, and gets arrested for some reason(probably his red and white Power Rangers jumpsuit offended the locals). Captain Joe, who resembles a squirrel and looks like he's hiding nuts in his cheeks, decides to break Ken out so that he can help the alien band leader in his cell escape. A stupid escape attempt then follows, heavy on the blinking Christmas lights and idiots in bad costumes shooting at our hero with plastic toy guns.Ken is injured, and is helped by his former girlfriend Rita(these are alien people, right? Do the Japanese consider Americans 'alien'? Well, I suppose that wouldn't be really surprising if they did) a girl in a long blonde wig. She's hunted him down to kill him because the guy he killed was her brother, and the law of their planet says that she has to kill him personally as next of kin to the victim. But of course she can't put us out of our viewing misery by just carrying out her orders like a good little girl. No, she dies and Ken continues to breathe. He and Sargeant Pepper get back to the ship and take off, and Ken moons over a pendant that belonged to the dead girl. And that's when a scroll comes up on the screen that says: To Be Continued. Aggghhh! Will the pain never cease?