ANDROID (3 outta 5 stars) Not a great movie by any stretch of the imagination but it is reasonably entertaining and certainly a lot better than most of the sci-fi swill that was being thrown onto movie screens in the wake of George Lucas' success with the "Star Wars" franchise. Klaus Kinski plays some sort of "mad scientist" on a remote space station doing some illegal research with androids. His most successful experiment is Max, an almost-human android who works as Daniel's assistant... though he shows a disturbing (to Dr. Daniel anyway) tendency to rebel. Well, if crazy Klaus Kinski was your boss, you'd probably be rebelling, too. Daniel is trying to create a newer, better android... a female... but unfortunately he needs a real woman to help him perfect some of the finer details (something to do with the sexual organs, naturally). As luck would have it, a trio of space fugitives (one of them female) docks at their space station with the intention of killing its inhabitants and taking it over. The plot isn't anywhere near as predictable as most films of this type... the acting is very uneven. Kinski and Don Opper as Max come off the best. (In fact, Opper is so convincing as an android that Max is listed in the closing credits as being played by "Himself".)
