There may be a spoiler here but this one is so old and predictable that it won't make much difference. The "spoiler" is key to the inane plot so here goes...
I give it a 3 because it was made and out there and that deserves some credit, right? Well, I may be being generous but, after all, it is one more movie than I have ever made! So you get the plot going by placing a newspaper reporter on a space ship (there's the "Assignment" in the title). He knows absolutely nothing about going into space and there is not even a seat for him on the ship. How much planning went into the decision to send him along? Absolutely NONE!!! So he, his newspaper boss and the space commander's boss are all clueless and there is nowhere for him to sit.
But, wait, it gets worse!
Then when you really get into a jam and need someone to go and do technical stuff on a different ship to save the planet Earth, who do you think gets elected to go. No, it is not the captain, he has to stay with the ship and steer it. Where's the navigator? Don't know. How about one of the technicians who actually are supposed to know something about space ships and space suits and wires and computers, etc. Nope! Wrong again. Well, you guessed it right the third time. We will send the hopelessly clueless newspaper reporter over to save the day by trying (badly) to disable a computer. He is too weak to pull the wires out and has to radio for help on what to do. That was a big laugh and wasn't supposed to be! Yup, the most clueless idiot on the ship gets sent over to another ship which he knows absolutely nothing about to work through whatever it takes to save the Earth.
Well, that's just a minor taste of this stink-burger. Incredible. Now that I think about it, 3 stars may be about 15 to many. Oh, well, give the guys and girl a break. After all, they had to make it in Italian. I could not do that, either! Enjoy if you can...
I give it a 3 because it was made and out there and that deserves some credit, right? Well, I may be being generous but, after all, it is one more movie than I have ever made! So you get the plot going by placing a newspaper reporter on a space ship (there's the "Assignment" in the title). He knows absolutely nothing about going into space and there is not even a seat for him on the ship. How much planning went into the decision to send him along? Absolutely NONE!!! So he, his newspaper boss and the space commander's boss are all clueless and there is nowhere for him to sit.
But, wait, it gets worse!
Then when you really get into a jam and need someone to go and do technical stuff on a different ship to save the planet Earth, who do you think gets elected to go. No, it is not the captain, he has to stay with the ship and steer it. Where's the navigator? Don't know. How about one of the technicians who actually are supposed to know something about space ships and space suits and wires and computers, etc. Nope! Wrong again. Well, you guessed it right the third time. We will send the hopelessly clueless newspaper reporter over to save the day by trying (badly) to disable a computer. He is too weak to pull the wires out and has to radio for help on what to do. That was a big laugh and wasn't supposed to be! Yup, the most clueless idiot on the ship gets sent over to another ship which he knows absolutely nothing about to work through whatever it takes to save the Earth.
Well, that's just a minor taste of this stink-burger. Incredible. Now that I think about it, 3 stars may be about 15 to many. Oh, well, give the guys and girl a break. After all, they had to make it in Italian. I could not do that, either! Enjoy if you can...