Ang Panday: Ikatlong Yugto
Ang Panday 3

Philippines 1982
produced by
Fernando Poe jr for FPJ Productions
directed by Ronwaldo Reyes (= Fernando Poe jr)
starring Fernando Poe jr, Lito Anzures, Bentot jr, Dang Cecilio, Monette Garcia, Max Alvarado, Eddie Gicoso, Pons De Guzman, Romy Guarin, Eric Navarro, Efren Belardo, Remy Javier, Buddy Dator, Ernie David, Bert Garon, Jun Medrano, George Wendth
screenplay by Fred Navarro, based on the comicbook created by Carlo J.Caparas, music by Ernani Cuenco, special effects by Cesar Abejuela

Ang Panday, Ang Panday (Fernando Poe jr)

review by
Mike Haberfelner

A meteor lands on earth, and out pops an alien eye that wreaks havoc on the countryside. And not only that, it also resurrects perennial baddie Lizardo (Max Alvarado) - yet again. In the meantime, an army of masked warriors takes the local children prisoner and throws them into a cave sealed by a forcefield. And then there's Naling, a girl that has been put under a spell that made her age to an old hag within seconds. What's worse, her parents don't believe she's actually their daughter and chase her away, and she finds refuge only in the city of death.

Flavio (Fernando Poe jr), the blacksmith-hero with his magic dagger forged from a meteor, and his boy sidekick Lando (Bentot jr) are still wandering the countryside, but get seperated when fighting some monsters. Lando somehow ends up in the city of death, and is only saved from the local zombies and kept out of harm's way by Naling until Flavio arrives to slay all the zombies. As a thank you for saving Lando, Flavio retrieves the serum to make Naling young again from an underwater graveyard, even if he has to fight a seamonster to do so.

Then Flavio learns about the children kept in the cave, and he fights and defeats the whole evil army single-handedly using his magic dagger (that becomes a sword should need arise). And he not only destroys the baddies' forcefield, he also shows that his sword can create forcefields of its own.

All of a sudden, and out of the blue, Flavio is killed by a silver monster, and it seems we have seen the last of our hero - but wait, his best friend the hermit (Lito Anzures), who has stayed behind in this installment in the series, gets news about Flavio's death via his magic book, and uses the book to revive him.

Flavio is all set for revenge, so he heads for the silver monster's lair, defeats its entire army and then the monster itself - upon which he finds Lizardo in a glass coffin, and it seems he has mind-controlled the monster because now that it's dead he's dcecaying rapidly all of a sudden. Then the alien eye, who has given Lizardo the power to control the monster shows up and puts up a fight, but in the end Flavio's magic sword just cuts it apart and the world is saved once more.

This film is not good, intelligent, well-made or even original - but it's lots of fun. I mean, at least in the eyes of a trash enthusiast like myself, you can't really beat a fantasy story with science fiction elements like an alien eye from a meteor, forcefields, mind-controlled monsters and the like, all brought to the screen in an unpretentious low budget sort of way with decidedly less than perfect special effects. So ok, this is not a great movie, but it's wildly amusing in a party movie sort of way.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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