Best movie of this year hands down!

Brilliant and touching

Best movie of this year hands down!

Best movie ever!

This film begins with a Japanese passenger airplane on a routine flight over the Pacific Ocean when the pilot suddenly gets instructions to return to Japan because a suicide bomber might be on board. Upon attempting to change course, however, the airliner nearly collides with an alien spaceship which forces the airplane to crash land on what appears to be an isolated island. Unfortunately, the alien spaceship also lands on this same small island and inside it is a malevolent blob-like creature who has no high regard for the human species. Not long afterward it subsequently infests one of the passengers thereby turning him into a type of vampire which then begins to feast on those in the airliner. However, rather than dealing with the fact that someone is trying to kill them one-by-one, the passengers end up pursuing their own individual agendas and start fighting among themselves. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that was a grade-B sci-fi film from start-to-finish which included a rather obvious anti-war message thrown in for good measure. Although some of the special effects were rather good, the acting clearly needed improvement as a more subtle tone would have greatly enhanced an otherwise interesting plot. In short, although it certainly could have been much better, this still wasn't necessarily a bad film by any means and because of that I have rated it accordingly. Average.

Very cool title, but Lordy Mama - this is just too dumb for words. I know the Japanese monster flicks like the Godzilla clones were made for a pre-teen audience but this isn't even in that bailiwick; youngsters should be kept away from this one at all costs. It's been a long while since I've made a change to my 'Top Ten Worst Movies List', but I was able to make the call after watching this cheese-fest without any hesitation at all. It zoomed right up to the Number Three spot right behind "Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet" and "The Incredible Petrified World". It could very well go higher.Adding to the film's off the wall story line is probably the dumbest dialog I've yet to encounter in a picture. This could possibly be due to the English translation offered in the version I watched; my summary line is from pilot Sugisaka (Teruo Yoshida) to Miss Asakura (Tomomi Sato) after he crash lands their hijacked, UFO-blinded airplane. Not to be outdone of course, by creepy politician Mano (Eizo Kitamura) when he chides the hysterical American Mrs. Neal (Kathy Horan) with "What is the foreign broad so worked up about?" Speaking of Mrs. Neal, just how bad a shot do you have to be to miss hitting a human/vampire target at point blank range with a rifle. She practically had it in the guy's chest and still missed at least four times! Fortunately that pail of gasoline just happened to be handy to bid hijacker Teraoka (Hideo Ko) a fond and fiery farewell.With an apparent nod to the 1951 movie "The Day the Earth Stood Still", the Gokemidoro blob creature didn't have the patience of Klaatu and Gort from that picture in which the aliens warned us poor Earthlings to get our minds right about war and nuclear proliferation before they took charge. In this one, the Gokes are leaving out the middleman and destroying Earth just for the heck of it. Which is a pretty harsh way of dealing with things, thus prompting Sugisaka's understatement of the decade when he muttered - "Why did this have to happen"?Addendum**** 10-28-2016 - I actually did move this picture up a notch to the Number #2 position on my 'Worst' list, but it would have gone to Number #1 if I hadn't seen "The Aztec Mummy Against the Humanoid Robot" just a week later. Imagine those two on a twin bill.

This is a Grade B Japanese sci-fi-/horror flick, and another version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Maybe those who dissed Nicole Kidman for her performance may find what they are looking for here.The effects are cheap, and the acting is lame, and there are plot holes you can fly a 747 through, but that is not the point.I hear the red sky was so amazing that Quentin Tarantino used it in a Kill Bill movie. It was amazing, to say the least. It was the cloud that caused the plane to crash in the desert. No, it's not Lost, it is an invasion.The politics of war and hate are woven throughout this film from the flashbacks to the Vietnam War, the war widow on the plane, mushroom clouds, the arms dealer and politician also among the passengers, and the assassin, who becomes the first victim. It is through our preoccupation with killing each other, that the aliens find as vulnerable to invasion.Now, we add in a little of The Blob as the aliens are some blue gelatin and they split the head of the victim to invade the body. The host is now a vampire. That's something I haven't seen in a Japanese film.It all ends with a new Adam and Eve, or in this case Sugisaka and Kuzumi, Maybe they will populate the Earth with people not intent on killing each other.

I love Japanese films and have seen many of them over the years. However, like American movies, Japanese films run the full gamut--from the sublime and creative (such as the films of Kurosawa) to the cheap and silly (such as most of the films inspired by the movie GODZILLA). Well, my hopes for a good Japanese film were dashed when I watched this turkey! The film in some ways is reasonably creative and offers some twists on some classic American films. In many ways, the film is like a combination of Dracula, ROBOT MONSTER and FIVE CAME BACK. This is because this genre-bending film is a vampire, alien invasion, airplane disaster and anti-war film!!! Talk about an odd idea! However, given the lousy special effects, horrid writing, cartoon-like characters, limp direction and rotten acting, the film was destined for failure. I honestly think that giving the film a 3 is a bit generous, but it was entertaining in its badness so I decided to be charitable! Watch it for a laugh if you'd like, but otherwise don't bother. This is about as bad as such sci-fi turkeys as TEENAGERS FROM OUTER SPACE and ZONTAR THE THING FROM VENUS!