MOVIE REVIEW

Flash Gordon / 1980

Name: Flash Gordon
Director: Mike Hodges
Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
Released: 1980
Duration: 111 min
Rating: 6.2

Pathetic earthlings...who can save you now?

6.2 / 10 (1,081 votes)

111 minutes

DIRECTOR Mike Hodges

WRITERS Lorenzo Semple Jr.

CAST Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson, Max von Sydow, Chaim Topol, Ornella Muti, Timothy Dalton, Brian Blessed, Peter Wyngarde, Mariangela Melato, John Osborne, Richard O'Brien, John Hallam, Philip Stone, Suzanne Danielle, William Hootkins

PRODUCTION Starling Films, Universal Pictures, Famous Films Productions, Flash Gordon Productions, DDL Cinematografica

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REVIEW & SYNOPSIS

Sinopsis

Flash Gordon adalah sebuah Science Fiction, Adventure, Action yang dirilis pada tahun 1980. “Pathetic earthlings…who can save you now?” Film ini disutradarai oleh Mike Hodges dan dibintangi oleh Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson, Max von Sydow, Chaim Topol, Ornella Muti.

Flash Gordon menghadirkan cerita yang mendalam tentang perjuangan, konflik, dan resolusi yang memukau. Dengan alur yang terstruktur dengan baik, film ini berhasil membawa penonton dalam pengalaman sinematik yang tak terlupakan.

Dari segi teknis, Flash Gordon menawarkan sinematografi yang memanjakan mata, tata suara yang imersif, serta akting yang meyakinkan dari para pemerannya.

Secara keseluruhan, Flash Gordon adalah Science Fiction yang layak masuk dalam daftar tontonan Anda. Film ini tidak hanya menghibur tetapi juga memberikan pesan moral yang mendalam.

Last Updated: April 29, 2026

COMMUNITY REVIEWS FROM TMDB

tmdb27219454 8/10

August 2, 2019

One of the least appreciated movies made in my lifetime. Done right after the glory that was The Empire Strikes Back and released to a public that had forgotten who Flash Gordon was or what the 1930's serials with Larry "Buster" Crabbe represented. Although the public was drooling desire for more high tech special effects and serious Space Opera, Flash went in the opposite direction and brought Campy back with a style all his own. This movie PERFECTLY recreated everything that those early B&W serials threw at those screaming kids sitting up in the movie theater balcony. Not to mention...

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JPV852 7/10

September 21, 2020

Campy and fun science fiction fantasy-adventure flick has some cheesy but colorful and good production designs and the performances for the most part were fine, with Max Von Sydow lending prestige to a goofy character and Sam J. Jones was okay in the lead, but he's really not asked to do a whole lot (both in acting and fighting) while Melody Anderson was alright though the "romance" between her and Flash Gordon was a bit forced. And for its time, I thought the special/visual effects were adequate, superior to the likes of Superman 3 & 4 released years later (1983/1987)....

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CinemaSerf 7/10

March 27, 2022

Now then, anyone who thinks that Max von Sydov's best film was "the Seventh Seal" (1957) really does need to get their priorities right: forget Ingmar Bergman - it has to be this marvellously camp effort from Mike Hodges and Dino de Laurentiis that allows him to act the megalomanic whilst dressing up like the best panto villain you're ever likely to encounter. Sam J. Jones is the eponymous hero who, alongside the rather hapless Melody Anderson ("Dale") and Topol's slightly demented scientist ("Zarkov"), falls prey to the mischievous games of "Ming the Merciless" as he toys with the Earth....

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