Xtro 3: Watch the Skies (1995)

Marines travel to a deserted island to diffuse bombs, only to be terrorized by an alien.

Director:

Harry Bromley Davenport

Writer:

Daryl Haney

Stars:

J. Marvin Campbell, Douglas Cavanaugh, Robert Culp

Cast

Credited cast:
J. Marvin Campbell	...	Biber
Douglas Cavanaugh	...	Wolf
Robert Culp	...	Major Guardino
Andrew Divoff	...	Captain Fetterman
Virgil Frye	...	Survivor
Nigel Gibbs	...	Smythe
Daryl Haney	...	Prvt. Hendricks
Jim Hanks	...	Prvt. Friedman
Paul Hayes	...	Mr. Atkins
Andrea Lauren Herz	...	Corporal Banta
Bridget Hoffman	...	Waitress
Sal Landi	...	Lt. Martin Kirn
Lisa London	...	Melissa Meed
Robert Madrid	...	Shaye
Karen Moncrieff	...	J.G. Watkins

Storyline

Marines travel to a deserted island to diffuse bombs, only to be terrorized by an alien.

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Plot Keywords:

exploitation | alien | revenge | remote island | rabbit | 

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Taglines:

From beyond imagination... from beyond the earth itself... XTRO waits.

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Genres:

Horror | Sci-Fi

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for sci-fi violence and gore, and for strong language

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

June 2009 (France)

Also Known As:

Xtro: Watch the Skies

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Technical Specs

Runtime:

90 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

Shot in thirty-six days.

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Connections

References The Thing from Another World (1951)

User Reviews

Really really bad and I don't say that a lot

I haven't commented on a film here for three years, but now I've returned to warn you for this piece of crap. It baffles me that people say Godzilla 1998 is the worst film they ever saw. They obviously never saw this one. I can't believe some people actually like this and there is a DVD of this film.

I never expected a good movie, but sometimes cheap cheesy sf-films can be enjoyable. But this flick sucks big time. The general that gives Major Kints (Sal Landi) his orders has his office in a shed. The marines are plain stupid. The alien isn't scary or impressive at all. The explosions aren't even real.

There are many continuity errors. Backpacks and guns appearing and disappearing. An alien with small fragile hands that seems to have medical instruments to dissect his victims. On broad daylight, you can see the alien in a dark background. Kint and Fetterman (Andrew Divoff) fight on a boat and seem to be the only two people on the rather large looking ship. And after 40 years, the alien decides to take off and breaks his ship out of the concrete bunker he was trapped in. Doh.

Here's another example of the bad script: When everybody is walking towards a bunker to hide, private Banta stops for a moment because the batteries of her flashlight are dead. She's left behind by the other soldiers and soon she's stuck in the alien's slime web. Kint wants to look for her but private O'Reilly thinks she's dead because she stopped screaming. This all happens in the dark, and when it's daytime again, the alien comes to dissect Banta. The following night Kint decides to look for Banta after all, and when it's daylight again O' Reilly (with backpack) joins him. They look and look, but can't seem to find her. Luckily the Major climbs in a tree and spots the alien still dissecting Banta. He aims (with a sniperrifle he didn't bring) for the alien but misses and then ends Banta's misery by shooting her. Then they go back to the bunker, however Kint no longer has the rifle and O' Reilly no longer has his backpack. And this is just a small sample of the stupidity of this film.

When the remaining people are building a raft, two of them, O' Reilly and Watkins (Karen Moncrieff) go for a swim. However not in the brook where they are building the raft, but they walk a mile to the beach. I was hoping that the woman would show her breasts but alas, nudity is not an option in this flick.

believe me, this movie stinks. It's crap. It's a waste of celluloid. With worthless movies like this, it's uncanny that people are bashing fun movies like Anaconda or Godzilla 98. Hell, even Deep Star Six is even better than this junk. I'd rather watch the dumb Tammy and the T-rex again than Xtro 3 (at least Tammy had a nice striptease in the end).

Don't buy, rent or watch this one (unless you want to spot all the goofs).