The Manhattan Project (1986)

John Lithgow, Christopher Collet

Another 80’s movie. Sweet.

Unlike The Last Starfighter, this movie really did suck.

Why is it that in movies like this, high security government buildings can be broken into by teenagers?? Is that realistic at all?? The main character breaks in using NAIL CLIPPERS and FRISBEES. And what kind of building with high tech, top secret stuff employs one inept, 86 year-old security guard??

After he breaks in, the kid steals highly toxic materials (which he handles wearing nothing but rubber KITCHEN GLOVES) using a remote control car. What the hell is that?? Why didn’t he just carry all that toxic crap out in his bag to begin with??

I also don’t get why the nerdy guys in these 80’s high school movies end up with the hot chicks. That is NOTHING like real life. In my high school, the nerdy kid who could have built his own atomic bomb routinely got the crap kicked out of him by my 12 year old sister. No high school girl would every think that was cute or in any way attractive.

After the kid gets caught and is being interrogated by the government, several of his nerdy peers break him out of the hotel room by turning off the lights and spraying the feds with fire extinguishers. Are we really supposed to believe this??

And for god’s sake, the atomic bomb he builds runs on Duracell batteries.

I hate it when movies think I’m stupid.