Leofwine_draca
This routine alien invasion film eschews storyline and originality in favour of a non-stop stream of shoot-outs, car chases, and the like. Although there's an 18 certificate, there is little in the way of gore (or anything else for that matter) and bad computer effects are predominant. They're very colourful and pretty but not in the least bit plausible and they simply look like they've been superimposed on the screen. There is hardly any plot and the alien invasion idea was clichéd in the '50s, 40 years later it looks like it has actually regressed into simplicity instead of developing further.The acting is all on the bland side, with the exception of the two leads. Dennis Christopher is an interesting, peace-loving alien while Scalia is the tough yet sympathetic cop who wins our hearts. The aliens all have slightly effective looking black covered eyes and are of the typical men in black variety, but more imaginative makeup could have been used.The time tunnel is frankly pathetic and looks like it has come out of a cartoon rather than this feature film. Lowlights include the aliens speaking and being subtitled (atrocious idea) and the alien leader having long hair and looking about twenty. More like a student than an alien. However the action sequences are all competent and fairly entertaining, and the long truck chase is a showstopper (as is the hilarious cow abduction at the beginning). But what's the point of good action when there is no substantial backbone of plot to back it up? Unfortunately, it's just the one good moment of a boring, seen-it-all-before film.
HaemovoreRex
Jack Scalia headlines in this somewhat low brow effort from the PM guys as a government agent who goes head to head against a Men In Black plot to bring forth unto our world, a conquering army via an inter-dimensional portal. Sounds bad eh? Well, luckily for our hero, he is aided by a friendly alien named Comdor who has been sent through the same portal in order to close it forever. Yes, it's a buddy movie at heart with Scalia as the hard as nails and down to earth 'cop' and Dennis Christopher playing the naive yet charming alien who eventually, naturally wins over his new found partners hard exterior and warms his heart etc.....(the sort of plot we've seen a zillion times before in fact).What can I say? Sadly, this turns out to be a strictly by the numbers affair and is not helped any by some particularly groan inducing attempts at light hearted humour. It's doubly a shame as the notion of covert agencies such as the infamous MIB's provide such wonderful scope for storytelling; Alas, it was sadly mostly squandered here and cheap special effects scenes such as the actual portal itself hardly help matters any.Having said the above, all is not entirely lost for this is after all a PM Production and if there's one thing that you can always count on from a PM flick it's plenty of crazy action scenes! Sure enough this delivers insane stunts and action aplenty from insane freeway chases to some well handled shoot outs. For fellow PM fans it's certainly worth a peek but don't expect too much - you'll likely be somewhat underwhelmed.
Cheese
Oh...my god. This movie is terrible, I don't know how they came up with it. I'm not sure who actually gave these people funding, but goddamn. Like seriously, they can fund this, but cancel Arrested Development?Although, it was better than Signs, but not by much, but that's disputable.In fact, Ballistic: Ecks vs Sever was a better movie and it was pure unadulterated garbage.This movie isn't even good enough to sustain a cult following, that's how bad it is.I'd rather go watch Masters of the Universe...seriously.
magilvilla
This is another excellent action movie from PM. Lots of shootouts and car chases make the movie very exciting and never boring. Jack Scalia makes a cool hero. The villains are menacing and look very cool. Action fans should check this one out. It definetly delivers the goods.