liveformyson I was unfortunate to turn this on while channel surfing and was hoping something was on the SciFi channel. Does the director or anybody on the set not have any Military background??? Air Force uniforms of that issue, are not authorized to have a white t-shirt to be worn. Director if you will please check out http://www.af.mil/shared/media/epubs/afi36-2903.pdf or the older AFI/AFR 35-10 for the next time you direct a movie portraying Air Force personnel. If they were wearing the Post 90's olive drab uniform it is acceptable but not in a camouflage uniform. Other than the distraction of the blinding white t-shirt the movie was OK.

Michael O'Keefe You have to give ScyFy channel credit for trying. Every once in a while they do come up with a very good movie...this is not one of them. You can tell there was some work on the FX, but good acting is none existent. Political pressure forces the Air Force to allow a few well-known reporters, namely competitors Sam Whitaker(John Shea)and Claire Fallon(Vanessa Branch). Whitaker is a nightly news reporter; while Fallon is a popular author and news blogger. Along with them a camera crew hoping for the story of a lifetime. What is the government hiding at Area 51? Col. Martin(Bruce Boxleitner)is to host limited access to the secretive base, where supposedly aliens from a 1947 spaceship crash in New Mexico is being held. The visitors are only to see what the government is allowing them to see. But during the tour a malfunction in a holding cell lets extraterrestrials to escape, setting off a battle with special forces. Of course, the news folks get involved. Also in the cast: Rachel Miner, Jason London, Lena Clark and Andrew Sensenig.

TheLittleSongbird I was actually interested in seeing 51 because I like movies with aliens in if they're done well. Sadly, 51 wasn't done well at all in my opinion. It is not the worst movie I've ever seen, but it is one of the laziest with its far from stylish or mood-enhancing editing and, with the rip offs of The Thing and Aliens, its unoriginality.What also spoilt it for me was the complete lack of suspense and tension, it was just dull in the pace(the 90 minutes 51 is felt twice as long to me) and derivative in its execution instead. Add to that cheesy dialogue, shallow characters that I didn't give a toss about and some of the most phoned-in acting I've seen in a while, and you already have a bad movie.And need I mention the unexciting and very predictable story in that I could smell how it was going to end a mile off, and clichés so many and so frequent that I could write a book on them? Overall, a lazy and dull mess. 1/10 Bethany Cox

Drago_Head_Tilt Journalists are permitted to look around the military base in the notorious Area 51, just to prove that there are no aliens there. But in the lower levels there are indeed extraterrestrial lifeforms that escape and kill. One is a faceless humanoid who can replicate anyone (leading to boring who-is-the-alien situations stolen from THE THING), the other a tentacled man-in-a-suit monster (not a bad retro creation, a cross between ALIEN and EVIL SPAWN/WASP WOMAN). Another nice, wise alien is called J. Rod. A very boring Syfy release from the Director of THE DEVIL'S TOMB. With Bruce Boxleitner as a Colonel, Jason "what happened to may career?" London and Rachel Miner as heroic grunts, John Shea as a famous news anchor and Andrew Sensenig. Mukerjee was also Co-Producer.Movie reviews @ spinegrinderweb.com