Buddy’s (Brett Baxter Clark, Nick the Dick from Bachelor Party, Bruiser from Teen Witch and the gardener of Young Lady Chatterley II; seriously these are the kind of roles that make me light headed when reading an IMDb and that’s not even bringing up the Andy Sidaris movies and starring in Delta Force Commando, Deathstalker IV, Cirio H. Santiago’s Eye of the Eagle and Cobra Mission 2) origins are like a mix of Superman and the Terminator. He wants to come to Earth to fight a great evil, so he’s put in a tube and launched here, but gets to our planet buck naked. He doesn’t beat up some bikers for his clothes, however. 

After rescuing Lora (Pamela Saunders, who appeared on All My Children, Ryan’s Hope, Loving, and Days of Our Lives), she asks him to help her with her literacy center.  

Every superhero needs a supervillain, and Buddy has a lame one in a pimp named Mr. One (Reggie De Morton, who started his career alongside Robert Kerman and Jamie Gillis in the adult movie Fiona on Fire; he’s also in Satan War and Legion of Iron). This pimp is enraged that Buddy is teaching gang members how to read, as well as do more positive graffiti and build futuristic cars. This is cutting into the profits of his girls, so he sends some cops to beat up Buddy, who ends up in jail.

Buddy gets shot and becomes, well, a ghost. Luckily, the gang members remember how to use guns, so they shoot Mister One and toss his body into a smelter. This allows Buddy to go back home, where his father (Norman Budd) is so proud of him.

Man, this movie. Women are menaced with snakes and a power drill. Mexican gangbangers learn how to read at a higher level. Custom cars show up, like a fiberglass Invader GT5. Buddy learns kung fu just by watching it. And it has the alternate title King of the Streets? And a ninja is played by Frank Dux, the man whose life story of lies would become Bloodsport? Plus a lot of nudity as Mister One sends his girls to sleep with politicians?

Imagine if Space Jesus wasn’t fighting Ted Turner and Satan, like The Visitor, and instead was kind of remaking Death Wish 3, yet with more breakdancing. 

This was directed and co-written by Ed Hunt, who also made The Plague, The Brain, Bloody Birthday, UFOs Are Real, Starship Invasions, Point of No Return and Diary of a Sinner. He’s joined on the script by Ruben Gordon (Legion of Iron), Buddy Pearson (who also wrote Firebird 2015 AD) and Steve Schoenberg. 

Amazingly, movies can still surprise me. If you’re looking for a movie where a Messiah from beyond solves the crack epidemic with literacy and breakdancing, Alien Warrior is the only choice.

You can watch this on YouTube.