The story idea behind "The Love War" is really neat. Too bad it's undone by a huge and obvious plot problem.
The film is set on Earth in the present day. Two teams of aliens are having a private war among us and they look just like us. But, if the aliens use special glasses, they can see their enemies and kill them. On one side is Kyle (Lloyd Bridges) and he spends most of the film running about avoiding the other aliens and killing them when he gets the chance. Along the way, he meets an apparent human woman, Sandy (Angie Dickenson) and she sees him make one of his kills disappear! Instead of killing her or erasing her memory somehow, he brings her along with him...something that doesn't make a whole lot of sense. What makes even more sense is that he automatically assumes she's a human and NEVER uses his special glasses to see if she's the enemy. And at the end, guess what...she's an alien baddie...just like EVERYONE watching the film guessed long ago!
Predictability is a serious problem and so is how quickly the pair seem to fall in love...it just makes no sense. I wish they'd just worked out the plot problems better before they filmed this one...because it had real promise.
The film is set on Earth in the present day. Two teams of aliens are having a private war among us and they look just like us. But, if the aliens use special glasses, they can see their enemies and kill them. On one side is Kyle (Lloyd Bridges) and he spends most of the film running about avoiding the other aliens and killing them when he gets the chance. Along the way, he meets an apparent human woman, Sandy (Angie Dickenson) and she sees him make one of his kills disappear! Instead of killing her or erasing her memory somehow, he brings her along with him...something that doesn't make a whole lot of sense. What makes even more sense is that he automatically assumes she's a human and NEVER uses his special glasses to see if she's the enemy. And at the end, guess what...she's an alien baddie...just like EVERYONE watching the film guessed long ago!
Predictability is a serious problem and so is how quickly the pair seem to fall in love...it just makes no sense. I wish they'd just worked out the plot problems better before they filmed this one...because it had real promise.