E.L.E (2018– ) User Reviews

Clever but flawed

[gnkelly-97322 · 4/10 · 3 February 2024]

E. L. E. Is one of those short-lived series that were going to be the next big thing. A couple of ten minute short episodes to consume on your phone. But like the rest of them they all crop up now as 'movies' on Prime and the like. Stuck together this one added up to 43 minutes which is very short by any standard for a movie.

All that said, the premise is quite clever. It is filmed in one continuous take. Like 1917 there might be some clever edit cuts in there somewhere but they weren't obvious. That makes me rate the actors as their performance was decent anyway but doing it under that additional pressure is impressive.

The location plays the part of a military base well. Wouldn't be surprised if it was a disused base. The set decoration in the command centre is very cheap looking sadly which detracts from the authenticity. Shop-bought laptops and yellow walkie talkies that looked like toys.

The story had legs but too many plot holes. The end was a bit disappointing as it didn't explain or conclude much.

Another half hour, a stronger script with an ending, and a bigger set budget and this could have been really good.

A Strange Signal

[bemyfriend-40184 · 4/10 · 10 May 2021]

Yes, this was a strange signal. We've seen Fail Safe, and Doctor Strangelove, and the nuke movies since. We've even seen outsiders launch our nukes, like in The Terminator. So, this pilot for a proposed series is really nothing new. It runs the usual 45 minutes allotted for an hour show. Then it ends. Not much to see here. Seen on Tubi, the free streaming site, which has an odd assortment of odds and ends.

Ok concept, just poor execution

[marro-bert · 3/10 · 3 February 2024]

Impressive work on the script by what I assume was a team of 13-year old writers.

So we have a Crimson Tide situation turned into an alien invasion scenario.

The family dynamic of the protagonist initially makes absolutely no sense, then it turns interesting when the focus shifts in the sister's boyfriend and his background. Then turns back to predictable and cheesy towards the end.

The confrontation with the hard ass base commander also mixes some overused tropes with some interesting points by the two characters, but in the end is never resolved. Or if it is I was too bored to follow by that time.

Not a movie

[continuumx · 1/10 · 14 April 2023]

This review is for the E. L. E. "movie" on Tubi TV and not for the actual series. If you see this while scrolling around on Tubi TV, it looks like it's a movie but it's not. It's the pilot episode for a TV series. It was obviously not meant to be watched on its own. It's a lot of set-up and ends on a cliffhanger. This is the only episode Tubi has. I can't even tell if any more episodes have been made. I don't know of there even will be any more episodes. It has been five years since this one came out. As a thing to just watch on its own, this just doesn't work at all. Without the rest of the series, this is just a waste of time.

Where's the movie?

[otha_anda · 2/10 · 1 February 2024]

I'm going to be brutally sincere and say: did anyone actually think this is a movie? There is no plot, or if it is is soooo poor you don't get it until the end when you are informed that earth is under alien attack. Poor poor poor... But what made me very angry were the subtitles of this movie in Italian . Did you actually pay for someone to translate? Ask your money back. This is the worse translated subtitles I have ever read .

The guy's name is Chip and the translation was "potato chips". "This is not a drill!" - and the translation is "Questo non è un TRAPANO"? - drill translated as in the tool to make holes!

And the rest of it is as bad as the above. Ridiculous! Translated subtitles make no sense, not even google translator would make them so bad.

Guess they were wrong after all. This was a drill... for a movie.

Oh lord

[bjornrhein · 1/10 · 2 April 2024]

This is bad, its so bad its insane, I didnt know anything could be this bad , I compare this with a schooltheatre or something

Sure I go for the lowbudget movie, and how they tried to build a headquarter in a garage, and its not bad done either, but if you going to do this , you need some good direction and even better acting

And the level on reality feeling in this movie is on ground level , hardly this is how things would be done if it was for real

This reminds me of bad tv shows running on daytime in the 90is its just so bad all of it , I could find one good thing, one girl was good looking.

Yes, but...

[klught · 8/10 · 31 December 2022]

I don't care what the nay-sayers are saying. Did they apply objectivity? Or were their thoughts ruled by subjectivity? Is the movie far-fetched? Possibly. But maybe the critics didn't notice it's an example of cold hard reason vs caring emotion? Or, perhaps they failed to notice the dark bureaucracy vs the ever-present humanity of living life in that kind of environment and the stress that that would cause? And lastly, it's very likely the detractors of this short but effective movie failed to pick up on the fact that (aside from the one commercial snuck into it) it's a professionally-made 43 minutes and 30 seconds long, uninterrupted, unedited scene?