Crappy film

n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Erica Kessler plays Melissa, a sexy young employee at an agency who begins to notice people in her life behaving differently. Suddenly, her boss Samantha (Jessica Bork), whom she ordinarily can't stand, is a lot more pleasant. It turns out, something sinister is afoot: ugly alien plants are making the rounds, and producing carbon copies of human beings while they sleep. Soon Melissa is in the position of not knowing who to trust.For those who don't already know, the movie producing company The Asylum has been in the business of making really cheap knock-offs of popular titles. Here, they clearly incorporate an "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" type plot, but Jack Finney probably wouldn't have been too impressed with this micro budgeted rehash. Filmed on location in L.A., it features a cast full of insipid "actors" and "actresses". The ladies are certainly attractive, and there *is* one lesbian sex scene, but these aspects don't do much to enliven such a third-rate script (by Leigh Scott, who also has a cameo as the desperate Zach Richardson). The music by Chris Ridenhour is actually decent, and deserves to be in a better movie. The effects are *very* limited, so there's not even an agreeable gross-out factor that might have made this more fun.As bad as most of the performers are, they're not totally without appeal. Kessler doesn't generate much sympathy for her heroine, but this viewer did like Danae Nason, the actress who plays her co-worker Billie.Viewers are better off checking out or revisiting the '56, '78, or '93 versions of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", or, for that matter, the '94 adaptation of Robert Heinleins' "The Puppet Masters". Even B movie devotees may find this one to be terminally boring.Three out of 10.

...was because my brother gave me a used DVD copy he mistakenly bought. I can understand why. It's awful, despite the sporadic appearance of female mammalian protuberances, an exploitation staple that is, I'm sorry to tell you, kids, highly over-rated. The unattributed blurb on the back of the DVD case should have been warning enough: "In the tradition of The Body Snatchers and Species, a horrifying and primal descent into paranoia!" You know you're in trouble when blurbs start off, "In the tradition of..." That's a given. The only paranoia I ended up feeling was the unsettling realization that there are people out there who make really bad, derivative movies. And they do it over and over again, because somehow there seems to be an audience for this sort of thing. I'm not sure which is more disturbing, the idea that people spend good time and money making junk like this, or the idea that other people do the same thing watching it.Needless to say, "Invasion of the Pod People" is cash-in trash of the lowest order, mundanely shot, unevenly edited (no fault of the lovely young editor herself, given the inordinate lack of good footage to work with), a script even a high school film student would disown, indifferent-to-no direction, bargain bin production values, mostly uninvolved actors (whom I also can't blame, given the obvious lack of aforementioned script and direction), a porn movie score (and sensibility, come to think of it), and whatever else you might look for in a film---it wasn't there. This is desperation viewing only, despite the pretty perkies that elevate it beyond a one-star rating. Should you, gentle reader, persist in killing time with it, just remember: the fast-forward button is your friend. This movie is not.

Invasion.Of.The.Pod.People should not make it to DVD. The plot has major problems, the script couldn't get a D- in a high school film class, the camera had the finesse of a single chopstick, direction was completely absent, and the costumes made our heroine look like she just entered the third trimester. The dramatic tension came only from knowing it wasn't over yet. The effects consisted of a ginger root in a flower pot. This is not a B movie, there is not one redeeming feature in this work, even the titillation, that started halfway through, was not erotic and the actress giving cunnilingus may have been asleep during filming. I could go on, but please don't watch this film. It could made you feel like a pod.

This is the worst crap I've ever seen in the pod people / body snatchers category. The filmmakers should learn that some good looking girls don't make a good movie as well. For a good movie there must be a good story, good actors and a good director. If any of these is missing the movie is done. In this "film" all of these are missing: the actors are amateurs, the director is a no-name, the story is very-very stupid. Sometimes I had the feeling that the actors hadn't PLAY their roles. They had the script and they READ out the text written. That was all. If I take my camcorder and record one day of my retired mother, that would be more exciting than this crap was. I think that none of these people had ever seen the movies they were trying to re-make: there is no invasion (a dozen of very-very small alien can not be called invasion), no "cloning" of people while they are sleeping (people get killed by their clones), and no real pods. From the 14 people acting in this movie 10 are women. Have you ever seen an invasion movie with 14 actors? It's a joke. And the quality of the film is terrible: it's dark, noisy, blocky, and the sound is bad as well. Instead of this total stupidity watch the original: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978).