Sci-Fighters (1996)

It took me 3 days and sitting down on 4 different occasions to get through Sci-Fighters. I really like Roddy Piper and find myself enjoying his weird acting despite a movie being pretty bad. That almost sums up Sci-Fighters.

Jayne Heitmeyer, as Kirby, is probably the best overall performance. She does a good job being a sexy badass smart scientist that puts up with some BS to get the job done. Piper's character, Cameron, has got lots of issues and hides behind his cop shield to avoid dealing with them. Piper has to save the day all over the place, Cameron emotionally and kicking butt against the bad guy. That is basically the whole plot. It is nice to see Kirby defy some of the stereotypes for a female main character in a low budget action movie from the 90s.

Then we have Billy Drago's character, the escaped criminal Adrian. Seems to me like some makeup artist wanted to do some gross effects and that character is what somehow happened. It's never explained what he's infected with. A virus? Space alien? Parasitic worms? Lots of explanations happen throughout but none seem settled upon. Also, for how crazy the stuff can spread, sure is weird that more people didn't contract it. Ultimately maybe it doesn't matter. It's a cool weird creepy bad guy. Who cares if how the thing is involved in the story seems like it was made up along the way, while making the movie.

Sci-Fighters isn't the best in any category but I still know I'll watch it again. There's a cheese ball charm to it that is good enough, even if just barely.