"Gusztáv Hámos's The Invincible is a highly entertaining, at times sublimely tacky gloss on the original Flash Gordon. There hasn't been anything quite like it since Mike Kuchar's 1964 Sins of the Fleshapoids. The action shuttles back and forth between Earth (where a deadfaced killer assassinates the President of the United States) and the outer planets of the solar system, which, as in the original Flash Gordon, are populated by Asians and blacks. Flash Gordon was an engagingly debased Metropolis, and Hámos, who mixes video and film with insouciant abandon, further Teutonizes his source: Jupiter is a Bavarian castle and computers respond, 'Jawohl, mein schatz'" (J. Hoberman, Voice Voice). Hámos, a Berlin-based graduate of Budapest's Béla Balázs Studio, made an earlier Flash Gordon homage-a 20-minute videotape also called The Invincible-which showed in New York in 1984.