Blown Sky High

Audience Reviews

View All (3) audience reviews

Audience Member Niko Mastorakis production has three UCLA students unwittingly involved in espionage while travelling in Greece when a Russian slips a top secret tape to them while fleeing the KGB/CIA. Lighthearted at times with heavy doses of nice scenery and a bit reminiscent of GOTCHA! in terms of plot. Notable for having all three lead actors in their first acting credits. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Audience Member I can't blame people for not wanting to see this movie, but it's not that bad really. The back story could use a bit of work, especially with all the spy stuff, but I kinda enjoyed this movie anyway. A group of young adults go to Greece and get involved in a crazy adventure with the CIA and mind controlling/altering tapes. Of course they find love and grow up along the way, it's predictable, as in many other similar movies. The movie has some humour here and there, the characters are likable, and it's a fun adventure. Overall, it's okay. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Audience Member This tame account of three single, male, UCLA students on vacation in sunny Greece is a travelogue masquerading as a wannabe thriller. Director Nico Mastorakis stages the action against some of the most breathtaking scenery in Europe. Unfortunately, the scenery is more interesting than this lame spy thriller about a Russian giving a secret formula to a nerdy kid that works on the central nervous system like no other drug imaginable. The drug is the best thing about this forgettable nail-biter. The KGB stalk Lester (Daniel Hirsch of "My Chauffeur"), Bobby (Clayton Norcross of "Defending Your Life") , and Mick (Frank Schultz) across the Aegean in an effort to get their hands on the secret formula. Along the way, our misfit heroes run into a bevy of beautiful babes, and we are treated to lots of topless shots of women strewn out on the beach. Mastorakis conjures up marginal suspense. The best action scene involves a "From Russia With Love" helicopter shoot'em up where a major supporting character, a CIA agent Boswell (John Lawrence of "Hot Summer Week"), who has been running inteference for them for about two-thirds of the movie, dies from three bullet wounds to the chest. The three leads are leaden lugs and their acting is abysmal, particularly Frank Schultz. Les is the be-spectacled computer nerd who is drawn out of his corner and given a make-over. Les is also the one who has the drug thrust upon him before they pile aboard a cruise ship with two sinster KGB agents tailing them. Les throws the drug that was recorded onto audiotape into the sea. Evidently, the drug when it is encoded into a tape puts out a sound that stops people dead in their tracks so you can walk around them without them seeing you. The dumbest scene has Bobby and Mick fleeing across white-washed roof-tops with the KGB hot on their heels and then leaping off the roof and landing without injury onto a vehicle loaded with eggs. Talk about far-fetched nonsense. As one KGB agent pursues them, they hurl eggs at him. Eggs! The major revelation that comes with a quarter-hour left to go contains a couple of surprises, but these reversals don't compensate for the lackluster thrills and chills. Incidentally, the title of the movie is the name ofthe mysterious drug that gives everything an hallucinatory experience. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review Read all reviews

Blown Sky High

My Rating

Read More Read Less POST RATING WRITE A REVIEW EDIT REVIEW