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The Man Who Saved the World is the true name of this movie, although nearly everyone refers to it as Turkish Star Wars.

Murat and Ali crash their ships on a desert planet that is no way Tatooine. That said, the footage of their crash is from Star Wars and footage of both the US and USSR space programs. Ali thinks that only women live on this planet, so he does a wolf whistle because in a galaxy long ago and far away me too does not exist. The whistle backfires and they fight skeletons on horseback before they are forced into the gladiator pits.

Our villain is a thousand-year-old wizard who has been stopped from destroying the Earth by a "shield of concentrated human brain molecules" or, as George Lucas would call it, the Death Star.

Our heroes escape to a cave where zombies attack and turn the children into the living dead, which gives the wizard more power, so our heroes and a girl go to a bar that is not in Mos Eisley . The villain gets them back and offers them all sorts of power and women to help destroy the Earth. He already has a golden brain and now all he needs is a real human brain.

There are more montser battles and escapes and then Murat finds out about a sword made by the 13th clan from a melted down mountain that is shaped liek a lightning bolt and protected by ninjas. Ali goes nuts though and for some reason, tries to steal the golden brain and this awesome sword and then get skilled by Turkish cinema.

Grieving for his lost friend, Murat melts down the word and the golden human brain and forge them into a pair of gloves and boots. He uses the Force, err, beats the unholy monster dung out of skeletons and beasts and even karate chops the villain in half. Then he does what you or I would - he flies away in the Millennium Falcon.

Making this movie even better is the fact that it shamelessly steals music from every movie that you love. It's main theme is "The Raiders March" by John Williams. However, it also lifts themes from Moonraker, The Black Hole, Ben-Hur, Flash Gordon, the Giorgio Moroder's remix of Battlestar Galactica, Planet of the Apes and Silent Running.

The decision to just steal the footage from Star Wars was a necessity. Suposedly, there were elaborate spaceship sets made on a Turkish beach that were destroyed by a storm and the studio refused to pay for new ones. Director Cetin Inanc bribed a guard at a Turkish film distributor and got the footage from a print of Lucas' film. However, all of the footage was spliced in from an anamorphic print - while this movie was shot in a different aspect ratio - making the Death Star look positively tiny.

It gets even sillier. The evil wizard has a wife who transforms into an old hag and a spider. There's a yellow vortex that turns men into zombies. Plus a man turns into a hairy ogre. All of these moments are also stolen from Bert I. Gordon's The Magic Sword.

Hey, you know how it goes. After all, Lucas stole quite a bit too. Ask Jack Kirby, The Dam Busters and Kurosawa. Maybe this movie brings balance to the Force.

It's laugh-a-minute time with this unintentionally hilarious Turkish classic which shows just how much fun can be had on a (very) low budget. Although I saw the movie in its original undubbed Turkish, you don't really need to understand the dialogue to know what's going on, as the film is taken up with pure action. There's a bad guy with lots of followers and monsters under his control, and a pair of heroes have to stop them. Yes, you've seen the plot a zillion times, but I can assure you that you've never quite seen it like THIS before. You see, they don't have any copyright laws in Turkey which means that the producers didn't need to fork out any money for special effects or a composer - instead, the music is ripped off from RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (the stirring bit that everybody remembers too) and every single frame of the outer-space footage is openly stolen from STAR WARS, which gives the film its bootleg title Turkish STAR WARS.

To make matters more amusing, the footage is edited together in a very frenetic way and constantly repeated, so we get to see the same shot of a planet exploding about six different times during the course of the movie and the same piece of music over and over again in the poorly-filmed action scenes, which are plentiful throughout the film's running time. Shots of the two Turkish "heroes" of this film flying through space were achieved by donning the actors with motorbike helmets and sitting them in front of a screen again showing clips from STAR WARS. The effect is awful and terribly unrealistic with it, but for bad movie lovers it's a must. The non-existent production values of this film are a riot, from the exceptionally cheesy costumes to the sub standard effects, but these are the things that make this a classic for all the wrong reasons. THE MAN WHO SAVES THE WORLD - one of the best worst films you'll ever witness! From the opening credits - painted on a black cloth and waved shoddily in front of the camera - you just know that no expense was made in the creation of this movie masterpiece. Two of Turkey's finest actors - Aytekin Akkaya and Cuneyt Arkin - portray the film's dashing heroes with more than a touch of Han Solo about them, and the brightly coloured silk shirts they occasionally wear are most fetching. And even if they can't act to save their lives, at least they can run around and do athletic things without getting tired. Much of the new footage has been filmed in a Turkish desert somewhere, inhabited by villagers, Muslims and the Sphinx! So now you know what an alien planet looks like...

Highlights include an evil wizard Darth Vader rip-off in a brightly-coloured mask who gets split in two at the film's conclusion and a giant cardboard robot which goes around and squashes small children to death! I certainly didn't see that in George Lucas' kiddie-friendly film. The evil minions include furry red and black monsters, a giant growling Chewbacca-type creature with no discernible head, mummies, zombies, robot soldiers, and old-fashioned skeleton horsemen. Elsewhere we have a blonde Princess Leia clone who keeps on smiling inanely, unexplained hieroglyphics and corpses which magically transform into mummies. The fun doesn't end there either: guys tie rocks to their legs and practice running and jumping to the Indiana Jones theme, rocks are kicked through the air like in a cheesy GODZILLA film and they even occasionally explode too. There's a bar-room brawl which rips off the canteen scene in STAR WARS yet again and a gang of guys in rubber monster masks who run around and leer at the camera.

Arkin finds a mysterious golden temple and a gold sword and heart (!). After beating two golden guards he uses the spiked sword to kick backside against some tin-helmeted kung fu warriors in the desert (yes, kung fu too: no stone is left unturned in this all-out crazy style movie). Later on, in the film's coolest and most imaginative moment, he melts down the sword and dips his hand into the molten gold to form powerful golden gloves. This leads to the fantastic action-packed finale with a full fifteen minutes of incredible fighting prowess as Arkin takes on the forces of evil, single-handed, and wins; monsters are ruthlessly chopped in half, have their arms and legs and heads torn off with the power of Arkin's gloves. A mummy's head explodes, robots attack using laser beams which are scratched onto the film itself, and a series of cheap explosions enliven the action-spectacular.

Arkin also seems to be auditioning for the world trampolining championship as endless shots of him jumping up and down through the desert (while people occasionally throw sand (!) and cardboard discs at him) in a heroic manner. All this topped off by a brief smattering of gore too. Action, stunts, fights, romance, tragedy, and a heroic good vs. evil plot, THE MAN WHO SAVES THE WORLD has it all in spades. One of the most insane, bizarre, and just plain off beat (not to mention incredibly tacky) adventure yarns you'll ever see, this is startling entertainment from start to finish, an enthusiastic B-movie which is impossible not to love and gets the big (golden) thumbs up from me.

quote ''The space people had advanced technology and guns, but they had no brains'' a part of the prelude - what a convincing excerpt.. what a story...man.. weightless rocks Cuneyt is lifting and throwing probably once had weight and hit the producer's head! how the hell did this movie hit the theaters without a sane person noticing it... mystery to me. if its a done deal before you watch that you'll see something stupid, go - on... don't take it serious.. thats the key. but despite some views here I guarantee that you will not last more than 10 minutes before you lose your patience and escape from this piece of crap. I hated to write such a dull review therefore give you a bright side of it : that is; you will like the next movie you will watch...even bollywood musicals may look as a masterpiece to you after watching this movie, well, for a while.

Pardon me, but there is no redeeming quality to this abysmal piece of trash.

This "Turkish Star Wars" is pure copyright rape, and the producers should be fined for having soiled a film such as "Star Wars". I am no Jedi fan, yet I believe it is unthinkable to take another filmmaker's imagination and desecrate it this way.

Can you believe this film actually uses footage taken from Star Wars to better a no-budget sick Turkish film? Would you like it if footage from a movie you made was used to fill another director's picture? IMDb should elect this the worst movie ever, and ditch all the nationalists 10-rated votes from Turkey.