Like a lot of iffy movies on streaming services I watched this one while home sick. It's two hours of my life that I wish I could get back. I also think it made me relapse, it was that bad.
The story is a joke, never mind that it's a total rip off of numerous other movies and TV shows; Falling Skies for one. But I could have let that go because the aliens invading earth plot is as old as electronic media. I could have let it go...if the movie wasn't so god awful.
The writing is amateurish and clumsy with plot twists that strain credibility to the breaking point, even in a movie about invading aliens. The direction and editing is just as bad. The characters are all cliques and the acting is simply atrocious throughout. But the prize for bad acting has to go to Stephany Jacobsen, she was so bad that her scenes actually pull you right out of the story, not that there was much story to be pulled out of.
Characters do absurd things just to fit plot points. Characters miraculously come back from near death injuries at the drop of a hat because they're needed for the next absurd plot line. The action scenes make no sense and are very badly put together and filmed, and events are telegraphed to the point that several times a character did something and I immediately knew they were going to die. And last but certainly not least, the aliens are just incompetent enough to allow the puny humans to triumph in the end. Wow, didn't see that coming.
But the action scenes were the absolute worst. They were so cheesy and clichéd and over the top that I lost track of how many times I actually laughed out loud while watching them...pretty sure that's not the reaction the dolts who made this movie were going for. It's about the same amount of times scenes went to slow motion in a lame attempt to make them more impactful. What it did was make them more laughable.
And of course in the end we're subjected to the same old crap about us ruining the planet and that the aliens aren't really that bad once you get to know them, after they've wiped out half the human race. I really can't believe anyone would put up the money to make a sequel to this movie. Maybe that's a sign that we really do deserve to be wiped out by aliens...
The story is a joke, never mind that it's a total rip off of numerous other movies and TV shows; Falling Skies for one. But I could have let that go because the aliens invading earth plot is as old as electronic media. I could have let it go...if the movie wasn't so god awful.
The writing is amateurish and clumsy with plot twists that strain credibility to the breaking point, even in a movie about invading aliens. The direction and editing is just as bad. The characters are all cliques and the acting is simply atrocious throughout. But the prize for bad acting has to go to Stephany Jacobsen, she was so bad that her scenes actually pull you right out of the story, not that there was much story to be pulled out of.
Characters do absurd things just to fit plot points. Characters miraculously come back from near death injuries at the drop of a hat because they're needed for the next absurd plot line. The action scenes make no sense and are very badly put together and filmed, and events are telegraphed to the point that several times a character did something and I immediately knew they were going to die. And last but certainly not least, the aliens are just incompetent enough to allow the puny humans to triumph in the end. Wow, didn't see that coming.
But the action scenes were the absolute worst. They were so cheesy and clichéd and over the top that I lost track of how many times I actually laughed out loud while watching them...pretty sure that's not the reaction the dolts who made this movie were going for. It's about the same amount of times scenes went to slow motion in a lame attempt to make them more impactful. What it did was make them more laughable.
And of course in the end we're subjected to the same old crap about us ruining the planet and that the aliens aren't really that bad once you get to know them, after they've wiped out half the human race. I really can't believe anyone would put up the money to make a sequel to this movie. Maybe that's a sign that we really do deserve to be wiped out by aliens...