Verdict
Summary
Nonsensical, plodding, and without much reason to exist, Iron Sky: The Coming Race feels more like a proof of concept than a feature film. It has some great looking special effects, make-up, and photography, but there’s barely a story, and it doesn’t command your attention like the first entry did.
Plot: A follow-up to the film Iron Sky (2012) in which Nazis plan to take over the world after lying dormant in a secret military base on the moon.
Review: Several generations after the world went to war with Nazis living on the moon, Earth is an irradiated wasteland. It’s 2047 and just over a thousand humans live on a base on the moon (formerly occupied by the Nazis), and these are apparently the very last of humanity. The Sarah Palin-esque President is dying, and a cult leader named Donald (played by Tom Green) is indoctrinating the weak-minded. From out of the blue, a cloaked figure and a small army arrive on base, with strange tidings: They tell of an ancient lizard race called the Vril which created human civilization from their advanced science, and began creation in the center of the Earth’s core. The Vril leader (played by Udo Kier) is, in fact, the cloaked figure telling the last of humanity how to save itself from extinction: they must travel back to the Earth’s core to retrieve a magical artifact he calls the holy grail. But in order to do so, they’ll have to fight off Hitler – a Vril – (also played by Kier) and his dinosaur minions. To lead the mission is a tough mechanic named Obi (Lara Rossi), who just might be the only one to lead such an insane mission.
Nonsensical, plodding, and without much reason to exist, Iron Sky: The Coming Race feels more like a proof of concept than a feature film. It has some great looking special effects, make-up, and photography, but there’s barely a story, and it doesn’t command your attention like the first entry did. Both films are completely crazy, but this one doesn’t have the spark of imagination the way the first one did. For whatever reason filmmaker Timo Vuorensola felt the need to continue on with his train of thought, but you won’t need to follow him there this time.
Vertical Entertainment will release IRON SKY: THE COMING RACE in theaters, On Demand and on Digital on Friday, July 19, 2019.