Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.
... View MoreA clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.
... View MoreIt really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.
... View MoreLet me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.
... View MoreFor starters this was a pretty good Sci Fi flick. Although I don't much like Brad Johnson, he does a yeoman like job with the Dr. Stephen Chase role. Miss Ross plays his daughter, with the (apparently) obligatory personality characteristic of always arguing when she's told to do something. I'd think the feminists would get tired of this ubiquitous character trait, but maybe it's one of which they approve. Ah, they probably don't watch sci fi anyway. Miss Lane, who plays Blair, isn't exactly a babe, but she's kick-ass tough. As she says to a couple of soldiers she's just taken down, "I have unresolved anger issues." I really like this kind of strong female character. Remember Sydney Bristow (Jennifer Garner) in "Alias"? I also don't have any issue with the technical stuff. The shuttlecraft, the ray-guns, etc. all seem adequate for this level of production. Unlike so many, even high-budget films, the good guys did manage a respectable number of hits for their efforts with automatic weapons. Dr. Johnson does seem rather too knowledgeable in the operation of alien devices, but he is a PhD, and he has been studying their artifacts for years, so maybe that's okay. I was amused that he managed to hang onto his coat, until at the very end when he finally went out into the cold Montana air and left it in the shuttlecraft.As for the main theme of the movie and the ethical dilemmas it poses, I believe we may have a case of art imitating life, because I see "Alien Siege" as a metaphor for the Holocost: all the allusions to "race" and "blood"; hauling all the selectees off to the collection points; the total lack of resistance by almost all those selected; the co-operation of the American troops and officials in the whole process reflects near repetition of everything I have read about the roles of local collaborators with the Nazis. The big difference in the movie is that there is a resistance movement and that it is successful. That's an opportunity that the Jews, as a minority in all the occupied and co-opted countries, did not have. I'm glad to see that Carl Weathers' character, General Skyler, got out of this with his hide. Carl often fares much less well at the hands of his alien foes. Remember what "Predator" did to him...
... View MoreThis is a pretty good movie. Much better than the standard Sci-Fi Channel fare. Good action, good VFX, great production value. I liked the actors, and I thought the director did a pretty good job.Most of these movies are crappy. "Alien Siege" tried something different, and for that, it gets a thumbs up. Most of these films "give the audience what it wants," which is an exercise in futility most of the time. That's like chasing your tail. The best part of this movie what that each group here (the aliens, etc.) was right from their own side. That's good, because it's true to life. Watching this movie, and others like it, you get the impression that they're made on the cheap. If that's the case, this is a cut above.
... View MoreI watched this last year when it came out because the premise sounded interesting and I like the genre. I was disappointed to say the least. In my opinion, Alien Blood was worse than their previous low (Chupacabra: Dark Seas). How can you not like a Tae Bo instructor taking on the title monster? At least CDS had some very funny moments.AB was simply awful with no redeeming qualities. I think the writers intentionally chose the name of the research institute where Brad Johnson is a scientist for its initials: "Springfield Hills Institute of Technology" - as a very apt description of this film. Hey, it's a paycheck! Don't waste your time on this stinker.
... View MoreI kept thinking I was watching a bad episode of 'V' or a poor remake of 'Independence Day' or a bad rework of goodness knows how many other sci-fi shows.The cast all looked as if they could do a good job if only they had little things like a plot or decent characterisation.The special effects ranged from the quite good (the CGI stuff) to the awful (Plastic alien technology). Also will somebody explain to me why when the dead bad guys leave ray-guns lying around, nobody ever picks them up. OK they do right at the end - maybe it takes a while for the good guys to realise that using advanced weaponry might be a good idea?Oh well, it's not the worst sci-fi movie ever, maybe.
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