Once upon a time, you could turn on the SyFy channel and find *something* entertaining to watch. I remember back when halfway decent movies like Pitch Black and Dagon were the feature films on weekends. What happened? Why this? There's so much wrong with this I don't even know where to start. A handful of competent actors cannot save a bad script, no matter how hard they try. I feel sorry for familiar faces such as Jason London because these are decent actors looking for work and end up getting sucked into an awful project like this. That's just sad.
Like many bad movies, they can't keep it simple enough to be halfway believable. The special affects were funny. The pretentious colonel was funny. The stupid background experiences of the soldiers were funny. This could have been a fantastic spoof movie if only it hadn't taken itself so damn seriously.
The worst part is the aliens. One had a voice which was clearly stolen from those online text-to-audio avatars that speak robotically. I mean, really? Are you THAT cheap that you won't buy a voice distortion box? And the "morpher" with his dub step music - again, REALLY? The make up job was bad, too. It would have been more believable if Area 51 were really housing bad genetic projects rather than aliens, but they didn't think that far.
I shake my head at the thousands of talented scriptwriters that are being passed over for crap movies like this. The people that made this movie should STOP making movies, period. If they can't or won't make an effort to make a movie even barely watchable, that tells me they have no respect for themselves or the art of movie making.
I am giving this 2 out of 10 instead of 1 out of 10, just because the acting wasn't terrible. Too bad the rest of it was, though.
Like many bad movies, they can't keep it simple enough to be halfway believable. The special affects were funny. The pretentious colonel was funny. The stupid background experiences of the soldiers were funny. This could have been a fantastic spoof movie if only it hadn't taken itself so damn seriously.
The worst part is the aliens. One had a voice which was clearly stolen from those online text-to-audio avatars that speak robotically. I mean, really? Are you THAT cheap that you won't buy a voice distortion box? And the "morpher" with his dub step music - again, REALLY? The make up job was bad, too. It would have been more believable if Area 51 were really housing bad genetic projects rather than aliens, but they didn't think that far.
I shake my head at the thousands of talented scriptwriters that are being passed over for crap movies like this. The people that made this movie should STOP making movies, period. If they can't or won't make an effort to make a movie even barely watchable, that tells me they have no respect for themselves or the art of movie making.
I am giving this 2 out of 10 instead of 1 out of 10, just because the acting wasn't terrible. Too bad the rest of it was, though.