Mighty Jack (1968) (TV)

What the....., 22 July 2007

Since I began what I'm calling my 2007 Mystery Science Theater 3000 Challenge, I've seen a ton of bad movies. And I seem to find myself writing at least once each week that the most recent abomination I've watched has to be one of the worst movies ever made. I'm really starting to sound like a broken record. So here I am with the latest assault on the senses – Mighty Jack. I realize that Mighty Jack was taken from a Japanese television series and put together by one of Sandy Frank's flunkies, but I'm not rating the television show – I'm rating the movie. And what a frustratingly confusing movie it is! I'm really in the dark about most of what I've just seen. It doesn't make a lick of sense. Some bad guys named Q want to do something bad with a weapon that creates something called hot ice. Another group of people called Mighty Jack use their flying submarine to stop Q. That's about the best I can do.

Like the turd of a plot, the rest of Mighty Jack is just as bad. The acting – bad. The miniature work (usually a strong point in a Japanese film of this type) – bad. The music – bad (and often inappropriate). The direction – bad. Everything else you can name – bad. As I said, I'm starting to sound like a broken record but Mighty Jack is seriously one very bad movie.

MST3K Episode #314 isn't as good as I had hoped. Usually, MST3K did some great work with the Japanese films they used. Here, other than the bits about the old guy smoking dope, there's not much that made me come close to laughing out loud. So I'll rate it a 3/5 on my MST3K rating scale – a wishy-washy average rating.

1/10