The Human Quality (2000 Video) User Reviews

Now's the time my sprockets when we dance!

[satellitepictures · 2/10 · 21 October 2008]

INVASION of the MIMES would have been a better title for this little backwoods romp. I am a huge supporter of low/no budget films and picked this up at a convention for only $5 new. It wasn't the worst film I have ever seen, but it does not rank highly either. We start off with the clichéd gang of thugs attack cop husband and wife, leaving the man badly beaten and the wife raped and killed. Except that instead of becoming a revenge flick we fast forward a year later and find that he is now a "loner" cop who seems to be mad at the world and wants no one near him. His assigned task is to take a prisoner to another jail. Throw in a few other rather odd story lines such as a guy camping with his older woman lover and his unapproving sister (kinda creepy in itself) and a girl lost driving around, and we have ourselves some human fodder for an alien attack! The hunt begins when all of the mentioned humans are surrounded by woods and a UFO crashes nearby. The first thing you do when the "flesh hunters" appear is laugh out loud. Seriously. They look less like flesh hunting aliens and more like mimes played by some rejected members from the cast of CATS. They slink around in black dance tights causing havoc for the humans in the film, but laughter and disbelief for us the viewer. Their claim to fame is their post production added orange blur like faces that now makes it look like you are watching mimes from CATS if they appeared on COPS. The movie takes an even funnier turn when not only do you get to see these aliens without the "fresh taste of orange" but when a group of inbred mountain folk join the hunt to rid the world of this alien menace. **** Spoiler**** The inbred mountain folk turn on the victims and reveal themselves to be another alien race. They look like humans, act like humans, eat humans, die as easily as humans….so in other words they are just like regular earthling inbred mountain folks. They have no special alien qualities after all. A cardboard cast, bad writing and some obligatory nudity makes its B movie status complete. Save your money and watch CATS or even RENT, it'll be much scarier.