“Space Ace” was originally released in the arcades back in the 1980s before making its way onto a ton of home consoles as well as home video formats such as DVD. Some may view it a videogame, others may think of it as more of an interactive movie. As a game, it’s nothing more than a memory test and as a film, everything is just whizzing by before you can even process what you are seeing.

In “Space Ace”, Ace is a heroic man facing danger at literally every turn as he searches for his girlfriend, Kimberly. Ace must save her from the clutches of the evil Borf. Of course, I have no clue why any of this is happening as it’s all so frantic.

You barely get a chance to know any of the characters. They are way too simplistic to be engaging. Normally, I’m not interested in the characters in a videogame as I just want to play but this is clearly trying to be a more cinematic experience and more of an interactive film than a regular game. If you are going to try and be more cinematic, you need characters that are not just barebones archetypes. The animation on the characters looks okay.

The animation was done by Don Bluth (“Titan A.E.”, “Anatasia”), who also directed this film. It looks alright but everything is moving so quickly that I could barely comprehend what I was looking at most of the time. If you make a wrong move, Ace dies a horrible death but everything is too fast for you to get it right the first time so this is just a memory game. This weird hybrid of videogames and movies barely qualifies as either form of entertainment. It occupies a strange realm between the two mediums.