Cooktopi The acting in this movie is really good.

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Lela The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Lee Eisenberg If you've only seen movies like "Ararat" (about the Armenian Genocide) and "The Barbarian Invasions" (about a political activist with terminal cancer who gets together with his friends), then you could be forgiven for thinking that Canada only makes masterpieces. Also, most of the movies riffed on "Mystery Science Theater 3000" are bad but only to the extent of being guilty pleasures (and some are merely slipshod).But every once in a while, there's a movie that's the celluloid equivalent of a human rights abuse. The crime against humanity in question is called "The Final Sacrifice", and it comes from Canada! An incompetently made piece of junk about a demonic cult and their quest to retrieve a map so that they can take over the world, it naturally provided fodder for MST3K. Pearl subjected Mike, Servo and Crow to it. The movie has so many plot holes and well-that-was-sure-convenient moments that I won't waste time discussing them, but let's just say that there's a reason why the people involved in the production don't have Wikipedia entries.Basically, it's got to be one of the worst movies ever made. Without a doubt you'll want to watch MST3K's presentation. If in fact you suffer the horrible fate of watching the movie on its own, then you'll want to follow it up with, say, an Ed Wood movie to wash the awfulness out of your mind. As for Canada, it's made movies like "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz" (about a working class Jewish boy trying to make it big in 1940s Montreal) and "Strange Brew" (depicting a pair of archetypal Canadians), so it's mostly doing well.In conclusion, Pearl is a horrible person for making Mike and the 'bots watch this.

dirk275 Somewhere in Alberta (Eagle Hat?), Troy MacGregor is trying to find out why his father was killed when he comes across a map of the Ziox civilization in his attic. He's not the only interested party however, and is chased by Satoris and his hooded thugs. Troy chances up with Zap Rowsdower(yikes) who just happened to be a member of the cult until he was kicked out. Zap seems to have an instant dislike for Troy,as did I, and tries to rid himself of him by turning him into the police. As events unfold, it turns out the pair are close to where the map places the city so Troy investigates. Soon they meet up with Mike Pipper, who is Troy's fathers former partner. He's also the filthiest, grimiest man ever to grace the screen. Troy is kidnapped by the cult so Zap is off to save him and the truth about what happened to Troy's dad comes out in one big happy Chevy pickup truck flavored ending.Alright, it all sounds like a great story, but really, it's not told all that well. I guess it was made by some college students on a bus fare budget, which actually seems to add to the appeal. All the characters are hilarious at best. Rowsdower is an out of shape drunk with awful hair. Troy is a stick thin nerd who fills out a red sweater like nobody's business. And of course there's Mike Pipper and Satoris. Pipper's voice must be heard to be believed and Satoris is just terrible as the villain.Still, I actually will watch this movie and kind of like it. I've seen the MST3K version and I love it, but I've also seen it without Mike and the bots. It has a certain charm to it. It's not good by any means but it's fun and fun to laugh at. All in all, I say give it a try if you can find it.

J C Well, I've never seen a Huffy outrace a muscle car... but I guess when you are making a completely irrational film it is certain to happen somewhere along the line. I think you can count the lines of dialogue in the first thirty minutes on two hands. I guess the director's rationale was that it's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid, than to open it and remove all doubt. Then again I think assuming there was any rationale involved in the production this movie is giving the director too much credit.This film has some of the most hilarious chase scenes I have ever seen. First you have Troy's epic escape from machete wielding villains via his mountain bike. I swear this scene would not end. Literally ten minutes are spent tracking Troy as he eludes a car full of goons on his Huffy. Eventually the heroes give up chasing this kid in a car and decide to foot it. Sadly enough, they come closer to catching him on foot than they did when they chased him with their car. Finally, when it seems as though these villains are about to catch Troy, he hops into the back of a truck. This is no ordinary truck, however. This is a truck owned by the dumb, drunken protagonist Zap Rowsdower... yes, Zap Rowsdower. This guy is a cross between John Candy and Joe Dirt. I think that I could use my ass cheeks as a face and be a more effective actor than this guy. Anyway, after Zap and Troy reach a gas station another hilarious chase scene ensues. Of course Zap and Troy have the last laugh. The funniest part about this scene is when the villains car treads off of a hill and takes a long winded drive towards a creek. The scene could have easily been ended by just blowing up the car, or by the villains simply hitting the brakes but NO. For dramatic effect the director had the villains speed across a 500 feet straightaway into a creek.The chase scenes are all good and fun, but the supporting cast is what makes this movie so "fun" to watch. ESPECIALLY the character Mike Pipper. This character is a hybrid - one part Macho Man Randy Savage, one part Ted Kaczynski. I was just waiting for him to shout out "Ooooh Yea!!!" after every single line. And let us not forget the performance of "Satoris", the antagonist of the film. Satoris, as we learn, is hell- bent on taking over the world. He plans on achieving this by sacrificing our virginal protagonist, Troy. Unfortunately he doesn't succeed. After a bunch of useless scenes, horrible acting, and utterly retarded dialogue the "climax" is reached when Troy kills Satoris and in doing so saves the world from the necessity to continue this horrible film.

Balorfil OK, before I talk about the movie, don't go watch it expecting something... good. You'll be severely disappointed. DO watch it as a comedy, not a good comedy like Blazing Saddles or any Montey Python movie, but a movie not trying to be a comedy, but sadly is, like the Evil Dead series or really any other "B" rated horror movie.So some scrawny thespian lost his dad to a bunch of Canadian high school football players wearing masks, oh so long ago, who can't even drive fast enough to knock this kid off a bike, nor have a good enough aim with a gun to shoot at a truck going... 20 miles per hour. Scrawny boy hooks up with a mullet wielding drunk named Zap Rowsdower... doesn't this sound great so far? With a name like Rowsdower, know on will even care about the plot, right? It gets better! Being chased by Satoris, a dubbed half albino villain, Scrawny thespian and cynical drunkard adventure through southern Alberta... the mystical location of an ancient, and apparently highly cultured and advanced race ever to be known to earth.This is a horrible attempt at a weak D&D plot set in "Hockey Hair" time with all hero's abilities set to 0. Please don't watch this movie without the MST3K professionals doing their work. 9/10 MST3K, 2/10 sober...