A potentially funny premise is driven into the ground by repetition in this tedious takeoff of science fiction and horror films. Ryan is a bald, 500-pound, human-looking alien dressed in a loud plaid suit, who becomes addicted to "Italian food" after he eats the first Earthling he meets,
an old Italian sausage-maker. The alien makes his way to Manhattan's Little Italy, where he has a quick meal of 35 Italians. The police treat the disappearances as missing persons and assign Silver, a dim-witted Irish cop, to investigate. Eventually Silver realizes that all the victims were
Italian. While phoning his commander from a pizza joint, he witnesses Ryan eating the waiter...
Released:
1986
Rated:
R
Length:
90 mins