Iron Sky: The Coming Race is the sequel to the 2012 comic-science-fiction
film Iron Sky, which is about an
American manned mission to the far side of the Moon that discovered a secret
base constructed and occupied by Nazis who fled to the Moon after their defeat
in World War II and who have been developing and building a space fleet since. This long-anticipated (not really) follow-up is
set nearly three decades after the events of the first movie, and follows Obi
Washington (Lara Rossi), the daughter of one of the original astronauts that
first encountered the secret Nazi moon base.
After the invasion of the Moon
Nazis triggered a nuclear war that made Earth uninhabitable, the remnants of
humanity – Earth survivors and former Moon Nazis alike – have rallied together
in the rapidly deteriorating Nazi base on the Moon. When Obi learns that the key to mankind’s
survival lies in the center of the Earth, she leads a team composed of Russian
pilot Sasha (Vladmir Burlakob), brawler childhood friend Malcolm (Kit Dale), and
cult leader Donald (Tom Green) and some of his followers in a mission to the subterranean
world where they encounter the Vril, reptilian aliens who came to Earth during
the time of the dinosaurs and who had paraded as the world’s elite and leaders
throughout human history – including the Nazi leader himself, Adolf Hitler (Udo
Kier).
Iron Sky: The Coming Race is an objectively bad film. But there’s no surprise there. It was expected to be so; the first Iron Sky movie was bad, too, after
all. But just like Iron Sky, Iron Sky: The
Coming Race generates appeal from how crazy, nonsensical, and dumb it
is. Such is the crux of so-bad-it’s-good
entertainment, which the Iron Sky
movies can be.
Moreover, at a personal level, the
premise of the Iron Sky franchise somewhat
but genuinely grabs the imagination of the part of me who is fascinated with Red Alert 2, silly conspiracy theories,
and Harry Turtledove-style alt-history fiction.
Iron Sky: The Coming Race is definitely goofier than its
predecessor. On top of Moon Nazis, it
also showcases the Hollow Earth, dinosaurs, reptilian people, a cult founded
upon the life and work of Steve Jobs, the Holy Grail, the indestructibility of
the Nokia 3310, and other over-the-top concepts. The enjoyment that can be derived from the
amusement of these things will, of course, vary from person to person. But to those who come into the film knowing
exactly what they would get from it, it will probably suffice.
The mid-credits scene should also
generate some anticipation for the third installment. (SPOILER) It reveals that the Mars colonizers
first teased after the credits of 2012’s Iron
Sky are the Soviets. I hope the
filmmakers can come up with something adequately fun and original from that.
In the end, it is apparent that Iron Sky: The Coming Race is a couple of
years too late to be an effective sequel (it’s the result of not having any financial
backing; this film had to rely on crowdfunding), as some of its jokes and beats
are outdated. Nevertheless, as a whole, it
turned out being more or less the bad but watchable, sometimes interesting movie that I thought it
would be.
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