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Invasion: Earth (1998)
Makes 'War of the Worlds' look like Winnie-the-Pooh
This is a gritty first class mini-series. Excellent characterization, even down to relatively minor characters. The plot is chillingly believable, and reminds me of John Wyndham's 1960s novels of which 'The Day of the Triffids' is the best known, where there isn't a happy ending, or indeed a conventional ending at all. Invasion Earth goes even farther with the fate of most of the main characters left in limbo. Even the special effects are very good. The only better SciFi mini-series I have seen is 'Taken' - which also has a somewhat open ended finale. Because this is a very realistic story, the tension is very great. Anything can happen. We are so used to watching packaged productions where the aliens conveniently catch the common cold, or are allergic to water in the final reel, and humanity is saved. Prophetically this 1998 production belongs more to the post 9/11 era, when apparently insoluble nightmares do become the stuff of daily life.