Product: Idaho Transfer (1973)
Rating: 1.0
Who wrote the script!
This was a deeply disappointing video in so many ways!(1) Poor transfer quality - The DVD looks like a videotape.(2) Plot was disconnected and rambling with a complete plot failure at the ending.(3) No special effects budget and it shows!(4) The plot was full of holes.(5) Amateurish acting - Varying from wooden and stiff to over-emoting some of the scenes.I appreciated the obligatory panty shots of the starlets, but that's not enough to save this movie. The real shame was that some of the holes in the plot were so raw and gaping that I couldn't connect with the movie at all.Here are some of the most dreadful plot holes:(1) Why in the hell did they put the future transfer station in the middle of barren ancient lava fields in Idaho? If the whole point was to "save the human race" by sending some young people forward past the "catastrophe" why not locate the transfer station near a place with water and soil instead of rocks. They don't even pretend the future transfer station is located at the same geographic place as the lab - So that's not the reason or the limitation.(2) I can accept the dark irony of these young people being sterilized by the transfer so they cannot "save the human race". The whole premise of the movie is some near future cataclysm wiped out most people (apparently turned them to dust?) and left the survivors severely mentally retarded. And these young people are supposed to repopulate the earth. But couldn't the writer come up with some explanation of what that catastrophe was? - It's just the central premise of the movie!(3) The ending just plain blew chunks! What was the writer or director trying to convey in the final scene? Are they trying to say that the survivors in the farther future are picking up people who just happen to wander by and are using them for fuel for their car? Give me a break - The matrix this is not! This future family out for a drive didn't hunt or lay a trap. They just picked up a gal that dragged herself near the road and couldn't go on. Yeah, you can count on that happening every day or two - NOT!(4) The tagline on the case "Can the ideals of the past save the future?" Is some publicist's wet dream? It doesn't match the movie at all! Which "Ideals of the past" are we talking about - Is it the gal who goes nuts and kills her companions when she stays at the future transfer station? Is it the bitchey gal who refuses to read her dad's letters from the past to find out what happened? Is it the traveling hippy pair we see early in the movie? - Say, maybe the idiot children are theirs?By the way, for some reason the female characters all seemed to favor each other to the point I had some trouble telling the characters apart. I'm guessing Mr. Peter Fonda liked girls that looked that way. Couldn't we have had a little variety? The guys were more varied.