unclegerald2004 This movie would have served as a Star Trek TNG movie. There were too many familiar characters. The android TIM was/is Data in every way... Or they should have changed that android character completely, and I don't mean turning him into a hologram like in Star Trek VGR or a robot like Star Wars C3PO. For this movie to work, this was the most important change needed.The bikini clad jungle girl should had been naked, I know she practically was, but it would have made more sense.The "chameleons" were too much like Arnold Schwarzenegger's Predator. I understand the low budget, but too many things are too... lets just say .. unoriginal. Even if they gave to chameleons a hue, or an aura. SOMETHING!The movie was actually pretty good if you overlooked the poor quality CGI and the complete ripoff on Star Trek's Data, Arnold Schwarzenegger's Predator, and the original The Planet of the Apes' ending, but I liked it. Do NOT take this movie seriously, nor expect too much, and you'll be surprised its actually something from Asylum.

Rob_Taylor Okay, so it wasn't that good. Plus, it is an Asylum film, so I wasn't expecting much when I sat down to watch it. But, all things considered, it wasn't dreadful. In fact, it hung together reasonably well.Sure, there is dodgy CGI, poor acting (especially from the guy who looked a little like Peter Lorre), weak dialogue and plot that we've all seen hundreds of times before. However, it's just the right side of "meh!" to avoid being an awful mess.Adrian Paul and Richard Grieco are easily the best actors on screen in this one which, admittedly, doesn't say a lot, but they give reasonable performances. The others manage varying degrees of incompetence, but no one really stinks.The guy tasked with playing the android clearly loves Star Trek, though, and that made me laugh more than the Avatar girl did. Original, this isn't, but it takes several movies and shows (Star Trek, Avatar, Predator, After Earth etc.) and manages to make something entertaining out of them.I know what you're thinking.... Asylum movie... right? But they have been getting better slowly. Considering the budget, it's a decent effort, even with the toy guns as props.If you think how many big budget movies get made and then stink the theatre out with their badness, this ain't so terrible! SUMMARY: You won't watch it twice, but it is a long way from horrible.

mpscouten The forlorn bury themselves in romantic movies for the purpose of feeding a love-starved existence. Testosterone junkies crave action movies to get the blood pumping in their dull life. Science Fiction and Fantasy are my opiates and my toxins. I overdose on them because they offer an escape while challenging my mind to justify the laws of physics ingrained in me from my classroom days. They can make anything up and require little to prove it, yet it wraps together so we can make some sense of it by exercising our imagination. Science Fiction means the future, the future means survival. Tossing in adventure or forbidden alien love satisfies my other needs. I am not so complex.We bury ourselves in a storyline, even if only for 90 minutes. Some movies drag on, showing things which do not add to the story, but fluff it up enough to call it a movie. Greedy executives cut away what the director or writer dreamed, in the name of adding an extra show to the daily rotation for quicker profits. This movie suffered from neither malady. Everything presented was necessary to the plot. While the dialog was not Wadsworth prose or a Shakespearean sonnet, I was not disappointed.Armchair critics have high expectations and pan movies in a lemming-like fashion instead of thinking for themselves and appreciating it for what it is; entertainment to fill a slow day or slower night. While not "Lucas" or "Spielberg", the director did a great job. Scenes were in focus, and their tiny budget would barely cover the catering costs for a major production, let alone exceptional special effects, yet this movie was not defined by computer assisted enhancements. The clarity of the voices meant we could all enjoy the film without turning on subtitles which is a plus so we were not distracted from the movie.They could have put on a cheesy lens filter to turn the flora purple or pink, or added plastic plants of similar tones, but sticking with the truth made the ending that much more credible. That lack of a grandiose budget was probably the ultimate reason we were not over-exposed to large colonies of aliens, or chases through buildings and aircraft filled skies. The plot was strengthened by it.In this story, Earth was in its death-throes after being conquered by an alien race. Lifeboats (space ships) were launched to send humanity to different planets to find a new home. The fact that there were at least 2 distinct Earth vessels that arrived on the same planet opened up a question which went unanswered until the end. There were the good characters, and protective military characters, and of course the selfish "I don't care if everyone else dies, so long as I live" characters.These humans from different departure points met up when the ship we were watching at the beginning crash-landed where the other ship's survivors were being held prisoner (convenient!) We were also introduced to two different alien races, one light-skinned that was visible, the other a translucent (like "Predator") that was mostly invisible. The first was just trying to stay alive, and both they and the Earth people were being shot down by some electrical pulse energy weapon. In the process of staying alive, one of the visible aliens became part of the human group. She had been a prisoner with the other Earth people and knew some English. She was a survivalist, and very pretty with skin colored like the surrounding jungle.The Star Trek "Data" styled "TIM", (an android) was semi-helpful but not spouting robotic laws as defined by Asimov. His path was not to become more human, but merely to protect those he was with, even if he died doing it. There was nothing cliché in his role since logic dictates if we could build a robot to help on an alien world, it would be like him.They ran to survive, but the goal became to leave the planet, and in order to do that, they had to recover a craft they spotted in the first five minutes (while crash-landing of all things). Then they had to get the locals to combine with them against the chameleons while the greedy were making their own plans to take over. And let us not forget about the forbidden alien love that was starting to blossom. I must admit, for a camouflage-tinted woman, the love interest of the main character (Adrian Paul) was beautiful. She had a similar appearance to a Sci-Fi favorite of mine, Summer Glau, like maybe a younger sister, or cousin.To conclude, I often purchase movies like this in the $5 DVD pile and I will collect this one as well. It was far more interesting than Outerworld or many of the others that have appeared as Original Movies on the Sci-Fi Channel. My point is if we support what they put out, they will be encouraged to continue producing, and really good Independent Films will be the result. I hate reality shows. The movie "Idiocracy" points out where we are heading with them. Lol. Not every movie will be a Blockbuster, but there will be some entertainment. It beats 12 naked people on an island armed with spears and monitored 24/7 for our (gag) enjoyment.I am an easier grader than most, and if something is 5 stars or above (out of 10), it is worth seeing, even if only once. I will watch this one several more times for sure.

driveway-laptimes I found the graphics to be very poor failing to look any where near real. Sound effects were poor too. The editing was bad using the same area multiple times for two different locations. A prop started out as just very basic then in flight ended up being a much higher level prop.I really had high hopes for this movie hunting it down on Red Box and rushing home to watch it.The acting was poor and hard to watch.This is my first time reviewing a movie. I am doing so because I now know how important it is. Reviewing movies can save someone time, driving, and money.If you love Space Sci-Fi this movie might not cut it for you.