How sad is this?

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

Plot:An alien creature, bloodthirsty and pregnant, goes on a violent killing spree after managing to escape from the infamous air force base in Nevada. A hardboiled female scientist and the local sheriff take up the hunt through the desert in an attempt to prevent more murders, and to catch it before the greedy folk from a nearby freak show manage to get their exploitative little hands on it.My awesome opinion:This movie's rating, presently at 2.1, is quite a bit misleading, I think. Sure, the plot's just a loose chain of contrivances for the colorful cast of characters to fall prey to the monster, the characters themselves are total caricatures, and the acting triggers the occasional cringe reflex, but overall, this really wasn't so bad. One thing that I very much enjoyed was that, just like with their previous movie "El Chupacabra", the makers of "Alien 51" have largely abstained from the use of CGI. Now whether this was a production design decision, or just a financial necessity, I do not know, but the end result is an alien that's quite obviously just an actor in a rubber costume. Some may perceive this as silly, but personally, I find it relatively refreshing to still find some practical effects among the influx of recent indie horror/sci-fi flicks that rely almost exclusively on computer generated content. It's just nice to see a guy in a rubber suit every now and then. Eh, that didn't sound right.Anyway, in closing, "Alien 51" is a shameless, unapologetic b-movie that certainly knows its place in the cinematic hierarchy. It never tries to be anything more than just a cheap, Direct-to-DVD monster flick, and if that's all you're after, you could do a whole lot worse than this.

This film has no redeeming qualities. All the actors are lackluster as well as the asinine script. The most horror I saw in this film was in the editing. Phoebe Falconer was OK till she opened her mouth. Her screaming fits were truly incomprehensible. Heidi Fleiss's "acting" was reprehensible. The "Alien" was nonsensical. The only really imaginative part in the movie was when the Sheriff?? gets shot in the head and we see blood splattering on the camera lens. Unfortunately, it's a long, tedious wait to that scene so don't bother. I can't find enough negative words for ten lines to trash this movie so I hope they accept it as it is.

One of those movies that misses out on having a flat 1.0 rating only because the few members of the cast and crew who were willing to admit to being involved came on here to vote, and not enough other people will ever see it to drown out those votes in a well-earned avalanche of 1's.It is difficult to express the degree of awfulness involved here -- there is not a single aspect of this movie that is anything but just terrible. Its amazing you make something like this and actually go ahead and release it. If I were responsible I wouldn't show it to my friends, let alone the world at large. It even failed to do the bad movie wraparound thing where a stupid film becomes entertainingly hilarious just to laugh at. No, just bad. And weird. And boring. And stupid. Somebody really needs to write the Department of Homeland Security and get the directors deported before they ever do something like this again.

Well, at least the story following THAT headline would be worth watching. This was, instead, about 80 minutes of unintelligible drivel, filled with the same trite dialog, cheesy acting, and inept direction you would expect from a rousing episode of "Joker's Wild," the game show.This "movie" ties with the Brain Damage (or is it Brain Dead) morons who did Abomination, as the most awful, boring, stupid, bad, inane detritus of the film industry. It's movies like this that cause the horror genre as a whole, to be widely ignored and thought lesser of. It's movies like this which are the sole reason why horrors don't make it to the Oscars, and are widely not respected by the general public nor the film industry. Because of crap like this, horrors are, by expectation, inferior films. And one of the other reviewers pointed out that this monster was the same monster from El Chupacabra. I rented that movie, just to see, and you know? I believe it IS the same creature, even though El Chupacabra was SUPPOSED to be based on a true story. Makes you wonder about the whole industry, doesn't it?This "film" don't get a rating.