Sky Raiders is a 1941 serial from the folks at Universal Studios. But despite some really good acting and some vivid characters, Sky Raiders ultimately fails as a complete entertainment. Robert Armstrong leads a good cast and when he is on the screen he dominates, especially in scenes with Donald Woods, the supposed star.
This serial starts off pretty strongly (as do most of them) but by the end seems to have forgotten its own plot and frankly falls very short. The need to make most of the cliffhanger endings in the air is commendable and at times the model work is pretty decent (at other times terrible) but overall the energy in this chapter play is sapped away slowly and steadily as it grinds to an inevitable end.
I can recommend this one for the great work of Armstrong but little else. Sky Raiders was a nifty idea, but just didn't seem to work out.
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