i must have see at least 250 sci fi movie since i be a child and range from old classic like metropolis to 50 b movie like angry red planet to more modern post 2001 effort like star war and alien and the fifth element . damnation alley be and without a doubt and one of the absolute bad sci fi flick i have ever see . from unintentionally funny dialog to wooden act to lame special effect and this wreck misfire on all cylinder . planet of the ape another post apocalypse flick be film almost a decade earlier yet look infinitely well . star war cost half as much to make a damnation alley and be produce in the same year and make this turkey look like an amateur film make by high school student . what a colossal waste of money . literally 20 minute of the film be devote solely to shot of the flimsy look landmaster drive thru the desert and with a dorky laser effect in the sky overhead . boring . i might be able to forgive the cruddy set and costume and prop and effect if the story be any good and but this have to be the bad post apocalypse story ever film . it make mad max look like citizen kane . the whole motivation for the trip make no sense right from the start of the film and and it all downhill from there . few of the event depict in the film be remotely plausible and and those which be ( such a the encounter with some deranged bad guy at a roadside cafe ) be predictable and cheap and ultimately pointless . this dud be absolutely not worth your time . a others have point out and the average episode of airwolf or the a team blow it out of the water . it doesn not even have enough b movie kitsch value to be enjoyable from that perspective . i would much rather watch 90 minute of the producer and screenwriter and director and actor be flog they have certainly earn some punishment for perpetrate this nuclear disaster on an unsuspecting audience . i would drive from california to albany in a jack up winnebago just to avoid another screening of this travesty .