recommended

Highly Overrated But Still Good

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Bad audio dubbing, sub-par CGI, camp acting and Bruce Campbell. All these factors make this movie a very enjoyable ride not to be taken at all seriously. Bruce Campbell and Renée O'Connor (Xena: Warrior Princess) play astronauts who return from a space mission to find that giant termites have invaded earth and enslaved humanity. The movie provides many great moments like finger amputation to improve work morale as well as Campbell's shining chin as he delivers one-liners with his patented bravado: "Just call me a... great healer." A must for Campbell fans. S

You can't expect more in a direct-to-video grade Z movie than a terrible script and some bad acting. Still, it's Bruce Campbell, and he is good for a few laughs.He and Renée O'Connor (Gabrielle from "Xena: Warrior Princess") return from space after 40 years and find aliens have taken over and enslaved the humans. It was fun watching them bite off heads.Campbell escapes and leads a rag tag bunch to defeat the aliens. You know how this will work out. Lots of aliens lost their heads thinking they can beat the humans when they are fired up.Another fun time with Bruce.

It's a good thing the filmmakers didn't make this a real serious film. It is clearly low budget and the acting is really really bad. There are touches of imagination, and that is appreciated but the special effects are only average. The premise itself sound interesting, astronauts return to earth after a forty year mission, and earth has been taken over by wood craving aliens. Then it struck me, what outer space mission isn't on daily contact with earth? So it makes the whole story invalid. How could they be so surprised? Although the humor is welcome, it's also out of place. The score becomes monotonous after awhile. It was just to stupid to be enjoyed.

But what can I say....it had Bruce Campbell in it and and the aliens had green blood! The special effects were very poor, but amusing, the acting ranged from Monty python over the top poor to campy to very sarcastic from B. Campbell. Still Bruce just oozes charisma it a very weird way and he is always watchable.The dialog is corny at best.The violence with the exception of a shooting near the beginning is all cartoon-like in its execution.I really can not recommend this to mainstream viewers, they will not like it. But (B)Si-Fi fans, Bruce Campbell fans and people who like very silly waste of time movies will enjoy this.