Iron Sky: The Coming Race (2019)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2019
	Director: Timo Vuorensola (Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning, Iron Sky)
	Actors: Lara Rossi, Vladimir Burlakov, Kit Dale, Udo Kier (Blade, Downsizing)
	Country: FIN, DE, B
	Genre: SF
	Conditions of visioning: 07.06.2019, VOD, 10" tablet screen.
Synopsis: After a nuclear holocaust on Earth, what's left of humanity is living on the former Nazi moon-base. But they are not as alone as they thought.
Review: It took a while to finally release this sequel to one of the first crowd-funded full-length feature films: Iron Sky from 2012. JoRafCinema was part of that funding, and for the second movie I considered paying 5000 euros to play the part of getting eating by a Hilter-ridden T-rex in close-up. That would have been fun. Instead I got to watch somebody else doing that in the movie. The crazy concept of Moon Nazis that made the success of the first movie is a thing of the past, this sequel is more about a post-apocalyptic world, Atlanteans and a Hollow Earth that of course harbors dinosaurs (that's the theory also pursued in Jules Verne's Voyage to the Center of the Earth, I wonder what the flat-Earthers say about it...). As the first Iron Sky, this one contains a bunch of outrageous geek ideas as the aforementioned Hitler riding a T-rex (even funnier in the promo scene that didn't make it to the movie), the Jobists religion, some puns against current World leaders, and they come with fan service for the followers of the first movie, and the same passionate team that have been able to sometime produce magnificent SF shots. Unfortunately, it also comes with a shabby story (even though the actors are professionals, not like in the director's first Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning), a weak direction of the actors, an uneven score and some cheap digital and practical special effects. It seems to me that the long wait for this sequel has ensured the serious look of it, but I can't help but being disappointed in the end by a lack of punch. That was a tough challenge indeed.
Rating: 4 /10