Story: A hulking terminator-esque villain hunting a beautiful alien who has fallen in love with Earth was in the first place not particularly unique, but it was made even worse by being extremely muddled and hectic in its presentation. The focus jumps all over the place in both time and place between several story threads which all involve different characters (an overbearing father, Vietnam war flashbacks, the looming evil alien, and the main character's journey) all in only ~90 minutes. This does not mean the story was hard to follow just that the extreme lack of focus gave me little reason to care about what was happening, created no meaningful themes, allowed for zero character development, and meant there was no escalating tension for most of movie.
Characters: Largely as a result of the aforementioned unnecessary or overdrawn plot threads the main characters all lacked depth and experienced no growth. In particular I think the split focus between the father and son's respective relationships with the good alien was particularly harmful, and that for a movie of this length they should have been combined into one main character. The aliens were also a weak point as neither of them was fleshed out; the evil alien's only traits were walking slowly and killing people by hand (which made him unthreatening throughout the movie), while the good alien didn't communicate much with the cast outside of baby talk or briefly while in a lab.
Art: The artwork/animation was not very good. I have only seen a few anime from the mid 80s, but visually it was definitely not impressive compared to other movies of its time such as Nausicaa or Macross: Do You Remember Love?.
Sound: The OST was generic but passable, and included a lot of Harmonica playing. However, in regards to the sound effects some of the noises during the drawn out fight near the end were quite screechy/ grating on the ears.
Enjoyment: My enjoyment was pretty low because of the terrible story and lack of good characters but it was somewhat funny to watch a third rate terminator meander around along with a pretty hilarious disco dancing scene near the beginning.
Overall I would not recommend this movie unless you have some historic interest in the movie or its creators, as I found it to be extremely lacking in almost every aspect.
