david-sarkies The Invaders is more of a mini-series than a movie but I will treat it as one. I saw it over two nights and thought that it was okay. The Invaders has many echos of the Charlie Sheen movie The Arrival. The plot is almost exactly the same. Aliens have landed on Earth and have established themselves. They are now infiltrating the world and slowly terraforming it so that they may be able to survive on what is to them a hostile environment. The movie ends in a way that the battle is won but the war is far from over.Compared to the Arrival, I found The Invaders to be a much more subtle and horrific movie. Though both movies had a hidden alien agenda, the Invaders deals with the aliens using humans to destroy the world for them while the Arrival has the aliens destroying the world themselves. Though both movies have aliens disguised as humans, the aliens in The Invaders use controlled humans to execute their plans while they just stand by and watch. These aliens are far more intelligent than they are in the Arrival.I find that the Invaders is by far a better movie. The actors are unknown which brings the focus more onto what is happening than onto the star whom most people go to see. The plot is very much in the vain of an X-file, with the truth not being exposed to the viewer until near the end. The hero (or more of an anti-hero in the case of the Invaders) is alone in his fight against the aliens. The victory that was won was a very small one, much smaller than the victory in the arrival. At the end the audience is left with the wondering of whether the victory really did something at all. The aliens are entrenched and there is no realistic way that they are going to be removed quickly. I liked this movie. The characters were reasonable and non-stereotypical. Some might find aspects of this unrealistic but I feel that this leads to a new level in characterisation. There is no true pure hero. The setting is very dark and gloomy and so are the characters. There is a huge amount of futility for though the aliens are known the evidence just does not exist. The ending does not offer a solution either for the hero does not become a hero in the Hollywood sense of the word.This movie is spooky and well thought out. It is one that brings out thoughts and really entertains the audience. Though it is long, one does not worry about this for the suspense brings it quickly to the end – and the end leaves you wondering; which to me is the sign of a very good movie.

ronbo36316 I agree that the movie "The Invaders" had its problems, it was long and tedious, and sometimes confusing. But to diss a movie because of Factual errors? Its Hollywood; what did you expect? them to hire Physics experts to give them the information to keep these factual mistakes down? raoulfenderson must be such, maybe he or she should offer services to Hollywood.. I enjoyed the movie for what it was, a movie, even though it was low tech, and tedious sometimes, as I believe the makers were shooting for. After all, the movie was based upon a somewhat campy/cheesy TV show from 1966/1967. As I write this, I am watching the series on SciFy Channel, just as cheesy as the movie, but just as enjoyable as the old days...

Globalcharmer As a fan of the '60s series, this movie was a big disappointment. The alien threat isn't any more threatening than the environmental policies of Bush 43.If the producers just wanted David Vincent (Roy Thinnes) to phone it in, they might have done the character justice by killing him off while valiantly fighting the aliens instead of portraying him as an ineffectual sad sack for the previous 27 years.Nolan Wood's son Kyle is the only one in the movie with any brains or guts. Nolan's ex-wife is so stupid he was better off divorced and in prison.Why didn't John-Boy Alien snuff Kyle the minute he suspected Kyle knew his true identity wasn't human? He could have easily convinced totally clueless wifey that Kyle's demise was an accident and she would have happily gone back to schlepping steak and eggs for her Stepford customers.Why did David Vincent burn off right after telling Nolan of his odyssey fighting the aliens? He had something better to do? He told Nolan it was best if they separated so the aliens couldn't capture them together. Hey Dave, you haven't accomplished anything fighting them for the past 27 years. No one believes you. You are a joke. Even the aliens make fun of you. So it only makes sense for you to split from the one person in the universe who actually believes you. Does the word masochist ring a bell? Is being an architect really that bad? It seems the aliens haven't accomplished a whole lot either in 27 years. Blowing up a subway train with an environmentalist politician is the best they can do? Whoa, move over Al-Qaeda.

lrek-1 The movie was broadcast, and appears on the commercial VHS release, in two parts. The first has some creepy moments (although they have little to do with the show's '60s incarnation), but the second quickly deteriorates into a simple-minded impending-disaster-on-a-train scenario that just left me cold and probably belonged in another movie. Made more "relevant" for the mid-90s -- by introducing the idea that the aliens were trying to get us to degrade our planet and thus make it habitable for them -- the ecological subtext seems a little knee-jerk ten years later. The acting was competent, although I doubt that Bakula's confused, rather passive protagonist could have sustained an entire series. Not even an interesting failure.