BoardChiri Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

Humbersi The first must-see film of the year.

Ariella Broughton It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Yonilikka-22 There is a great deal of snobbery directed at low budget movies. 1973's 'Big Zapper' is a good example of this. It is certainly not a lowpoint in British cinema, as one reviewer has stated. This energetic spoof of private eye movies is directed by Lindsay Shonteff, and stars the luscious Linda Marlowe as white-clad, sexy investigator 'Harriet Zapper'. After putting an ad in the Village Gazette, she is hired by wealthy 'Jeremiah Horn' ( Jack May ) to find his missing daughter 'Pandora'. The trail takes her to the deranged crime-boss 'Kono' ( Gary Hope ) who dispatches an army of killers to deal with Harriet. Of course, she's more than capable of looking after herself. Why did I enjoy this movie so much? Possibly because it serves as a perfect antidote to the increasingly anodyne fare currently served up by Hollywood. C.G.I. is awful when used as the focal point of a movie. 'Big Zapper' is tremendous, insane fun, and Marlowe is a knockout in the title role. Its impossible to take seriously a movie which features characters with names like 'Rock Hard' and 'Strawberry Jim'. There are the odd moments of Pythonesque humour, such as a bright light appearing when Harriet drops her knickers, and a severed head uttering an apology. Never mind the low budget, just enjoy the ride.

Justin Powers As the female version of Dirty Harry and one of the most vicious comic book adaptations Big Zapper is a cult favorite that lives on! After Sin City it has become even more acceptable and one can see that it was just ahead of it's time! It's an unbelievable mixture of surreal sex scenes and nasty slap stick violence and the cynical attitude of the main character is absolutely unbelievable! Plus the way the goofs are saved by the voice over like "I had time just to change my clothes" when Zapper's outfit is changed in the middle the scene! Absolutely great work!

John Seal This feeble private eye 'spoof' features a catatonic Linda Marlowe as Harriet 'Big' Zapper, a mini-skirted PI out to solve the murder of a young woman. She's opposed by Kono (Gary Hope), a pimp who has a sideline in counterfeit money and dresses a bit like Ronnie 'Z-Man' Barzell, and his gang of inept henchmen. Her loyal sidekick is an impossibly randy loser named Rock Hard (Richard Monette) who spends most of the film snoozing in the back of Harriet's Mercedes in between shags. Screenwriter-director Lindsay Shonteff wavers for the first few reels between straight ahead spoof (witness Big Zapper's badly animated glowing vagina) and video nasty, but wisely decides to amp up the silliness for the film's finale. There's not much to recommend here: the action scenes are dreadfully staged, and the comedy relentlessly unfunny. The film does score points unintentionally for London film fans, who get a nice glimpse of the exterior of the old Angel tube station before its complete reconstruction in the early 1990s.

Dan-359 This has to mark a low point for the British film industry; it is cheap, slapdash, sleazy, painfully unfunny but, most unforgivably, totally dull. Most of the actors look embarrassed to be involved with the exception of Gary Hope, as Kono, who throws himself into the part with such vigour that he reaches a crescendo in the first scene and has nowhere to go from there. The tone lurches unevenly from one scene to the next: the film opens with the brutal murder of a young girl (naked, of course)after which we are treated to Zapper getting dressed, explaining in a monotonous Marlowe-style voiceover how her boyfriend, Rock Hard, keeps pestering her for a whipping session. From here on the violence is fairly comical, at least I assume the kung-fu scenes are supposed to be funny.Naturally all this "action" is bogged down by shots of Zapper driving around London, so Shonteff tosses in gratuitous nudity every so often to perk up the interest. When we eventually reach the climax, so to speak, the ending is so abrupt as to be almost non-existent, thus denying those who have had the fortitude to sit through the whole thing the bonus of a payoff.The concept of a female private eye, along with spoofing James Bond and so on, is a reasonable one; but what these films need more than anything else is a strong visual style and this effort is completely lacking in any style, visual or otherwise. The sets are dismal, as are the locations; the costumes are tacky and the theme music repeated throughout. I thought Shonteff's 'Devil Doll' was bad, but I suppose everything is relative.