A meteor has brought some weird cell to earth, the effect of which has
yet to be fully understood. It seems that baddie Anderson (John Ireland)
is ahead of most in that department, as he has the lab where the cell is
examined raided and everyone shot, jut to get his hands on the cell to ...
well, I don't know. However, for some reason, a down-on-his-luck local
reporter, Milford (David Warbeck), has taken part of the cell to his
TV-studio to play with and discovers the cell might be dangerous. Enter a
mysterious woman (Laura Trotter), who introduces him to the ghosts of
Atlantis and/or beings from another dimension and/or his
future/alternative self, and they all tell him he has to stop Anderson
from experimenting with the cell. This mysterious woman is also a telepath
by the way, and a bit of a magician, and she is to become Milford's
girlfriend. Milford soon finds himself on the run from Anderson's men,
but at the same time he homes in on Anderson, until he finally breaks into
his lab to find out the cell has already developed into a homunculus (or
something) with enormous telekinetic powers - but somehow Milford can
overcome these, kill all the baddies, and in the end he and his new
girlfriend bring the homunculus to an UFO landing spot where it's picked
up by aliens. Pretty uninspired blend of action and science
fiction with esoteric undercurrents that unfortunately puts more emphasis
on its fight and chase scenes (which are not all that well executed) than
its story and makes the titular "Miami Golem" nothing more than
a supporting character in his own film. All of this leads to a forgettable
piece of 1980's trash.
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