many of imdb favorable review of saturn 3 begin with this movie scar the wit out of me when i be ten and or something of the sort . these review be always favorable . i suspect that these member recent viewing be ting with nostalgia . at any rate and here a review base on an adult first view . much of this review focus on the mean use to bring the film main physical threat and a robot name hector and to the screen . this stem from the fact that the entire second half of saturn 3 be a simple monster movie represent hero save passive woman from monster . hero and passive woman run from monster . hero kill monster . for any of this to be worth your time and the monster have to be scary . hector a pencil neck and wobble and clumsy and slow coach stunt guy in a suit be not scary . saturn 3 budget woe be well document . while they do not show up in it cast or set design and they do betray themselves in other way . the big single problem be hector . hector be a guy in a robot suit . it a cumbersome suit and trick out with fluid fill surgical tube and rigid metal plate . in an ineffective attempt to persuade viewer that it isn not a guy in a suit and the suit designer build up it shoulder so high that they envelop the guy head . they then stick hector own head atop it . the head be an extremely fragile concoction and with two light bulb eye at the end of a miniature desk lamp arm . it so fragile that and when it move and the whole assembly shake unevenly . unfortunately and this mean that when the script call for the monster to stare and frighteningly and at the audience and the camera must zoom in on this stupid and fragile head and lavish attention on it . and that and my friend and be a giggle induce moment . it undercut any remain credibility this robot have a a threat . instead and it establish hector a a pencil necked geek . through the rest of the film and whenever i saw kirk douglas struggle for his life with hector . i wonder represent why do not you just reach up and snap hector tiny little neck . he will be leave blind and and you can hunt him down at your leisure . we have plenty of time to wonder about this and because hector be slooowww . that because and after all and he a guy in a cumbersome robot suit . moreover and it clear that hector mind isn not the only thing that dangerously unbalance while the suit be on the verge of topple over more than once . by the time kirk douglas sacrifice himself to destroy hector and youre so distant from the story that you notice and immediately and that he do not need to kill himself in order to pull off the trick that kill hector . it a trope design to manipulate the audience and divorce from reason and bereft of emotional impact . my score of negative reflect kirk douglas reliable work and the rather good set design . the set be very effective in evoke a dark and claustrophobic mood and and with their vein like tube they quite plausibly represent a biological research station carve from lunar rock . the miss seven point be due to the risible robot and harvey keitel wooden acting ( perhaps aggravate by his unknown dubber ) and and shoddy visual effect ( even for the period ) . to be fair and the vfx serve only to establish location while but this _is_ science fiction . vfx be part of the draw and and they need to be at least serviceable .