I'm still not sure what attracted me to "Iron Invader." Maybe it's because deep down it's basically just a B monster on a rampage movie that doesn't try to be anything but a monster on a rampage movie. It's filled with clunky exposition and lazy back story, not to mention under acting from the entire case, but "Iron Invader" has more going for it. It's a movie that takes a creative premise and just runs with it. It's about a Frankenstein monster, with some Golem madness thrown in for good measure. And if that's not enough, director Paul Ziller designs the Iron Invader to look like a low rent production of Michael Bay's Transformers. Junkotron, I would presume him to be. In any town USA, two brothers are working on an Inn that they're losing money on. The smallest town in America where I assume no cops or armed forces reside becomes the hunting ground for an alien bacteria. When a Russian satellite crashes in to the Earth, the two brothers take the satellite and sell it for extra cash, all the while the green bacteria attached to it has seeped in to its human hosts turning them in to rigid corpses destroying them in seconds flat. The bacteria can also seemingly take on the life of inanimate objects, and when it bonds with a gigantic junk statue, the alien takes the form of said Iron Invader.

I mock "Iron Invader" but truth be told, I do it merely in the ribbing sense, because it really is a fun movie that doesn't try too hard to make an absurd premise in to one that can be composed of logic or reason. It's simply "Virus" meets "The Iron Giant." I especially adore how Junkzilla can mix up electronics, signals, and the like as to prevent anyone from calling the armed forces and bringing it down permanently. If you can bring it down permanently, mind you. The design for Junkzilla is fairly basic and yet slickly animated, especially when it can do more than just rampage and stomp around. While the premise wreaks of pure idiocy, the robot looks functional enough to be a valid threat, and when it comes across the hapless victims, look out and keep away from its claws. "Iron Invader" is a typical science fiction guilty pleasure, and one I intend to see a few more times, if only for the under reaction from Kavan Smith when he sees his brother lying dead in a corner. Plus, there's the always reliable line that the hero inevitably mutters: "We have to figure out what we're up against!"

In the end Paul Ziller's killer robot movie is about what I expected and a little more. Sure it's thin on logic, and characterization, but the movie isn't about characters so much as it is about a cool robotic monster rampaging through small locales that fit the film's production budget and wreaking ungodly havoc. I had as much fun with it as I expected and I wish more of the modern monster movies were this fun.