IMDB call this one
Nexus 2.431 but the word "nexus" is only used once, without the number, and it has little to do with the story so...call it what you will. I call it a pretty bad movie.
This movie is hard to describe because the scenes don't always seem to connect and the plot kinda winds around and important points and actions from one scene don't seem to have any bearing on the rest of the story.
The gist is that at somepoint in the future the earth explodes (from too much pollution). Before this happens, a small group of humans are sent out from the earth on a spaceship to ensure the survival of the species. When they land on a distant planet, I hide visions of Golgafrinchians because these putzes that are the last of the human species are pretty weak and soon fall into servitude and tribute paying to the dictator of a portion of said planet. This, btw, is all backstory in the first few minutes.
The story proper stats up when the dictator (Tarn? names are a bit weak here as the listing and the pronunciations don't seem to match the dialogue sometimes) shows up at the doorstep of the humans and demand the human leaders daughter, Zhylia, to be his wife. She refuses. She has seen a man in a vision and loves him and not the evil dude so she says 'no way', and he proceeds to kidnap her anyway. The man in the vision is Azhar, and the rest of the story is him trying to rescue here, Tarn trying to convince Zhlyia to marry him and give him a son/successor, Tarns second in command/wizard trying to convince Tarn that Zhylia and Azhar together fulfill a prophecy that means his downfall and one of them has to die and since she's already available, might as well be her (Tarn breaks a good many of the
"Evil Overlord"[url] "do not do!" items)
From this basic plot, the movie gets really confused. There seems to be a whole second side plot about who the two are supposed to be in terms of the prophecuy that never really gets explained. Where did Azhar come from? Why did he refer to a bunch of old guys as his "nexus"? What's with the tree knives and the thief and the woman in the forest and... There seemed to be another movie going on that this one sorta intersected at points, yet this one was long and boring enough on it's own. A strange mixture of sci-fi and fantasy with space ships and knife fights and all..
The special effects were pretty cheap. For a mid 90s release, the model work looked like something from the 70s or early 80s (think "Metalstorm", not "Star Wars") The acting was pretty poor and not many of the actors did much else
In all, it did remind me a bit of "Yor, Hunter From The Future" so if t hat's your thing, go for it.
