At Long Last, ‘Metal Man,’ Have You No Shame?

For anyone who keeps their fingers on the pulse of terrible cinema -- which, as we've already seen once today, I do -- the idea of the "mockbuster" is nothing new. The world of low-budget, slapped-together knockoffs of big Hollywood films has been given a new lease on life recently thanks to the largely ironic popularity of The Asylum (the studio that brought you "Transmorphers," "Death Racers" and "Pirates of Treasure Island"), but they're hardly the only ones craving a bit of that sweet, sweet mockbuster cash. Witness, for instance, "Metal Man":

Like most mockbusters, the plot (such as it is) is the same as the movie it's attempting to ape, if you pull back far enough that any meaningful details are obscured: Scientist creates suit of armor and battles evil industrialist who wants to make it a weapon. That's to be expected. What's surprising, though, is that not only is it a pretty amazingly bad movie made by a company that can't even get Amazon to spell their name right....