Best movie ever!

Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

First things first: We don't have a first rate movie here. However, it was not as much a turkey as I had hoped/feared. Expecting the awful, with all systems set "prepared to fast forward", I rather enjoyed it. Acting was fine overall, especially Michael Tierrault. The characters could have been deeper, better presented, which is a problem with diving head first into the problem without knowing the characters first.Of course it has more than a little in common with Alien (although slightly less than I feared), but even more it reminds me of the Norwegian TV series "Blindpassasjer". Oh yes, the special effects (which are sometimes less than stellar) stray into some other movies as well.What the movie boils down to is a surprisingly clear message: Don't stray from the rules! This is a rather unusual message in a movie today. Movies almost always praise the rule breaker, the rebel who dares go his/her own way. The crew members break the rules over and over, they are ruled by emotions rather than facts and logic, and the alien gets the advantage from that.Overall, weak but not unwatchable, but by all means don't expect more than a B movie!

Is it possible to give zero or is 1/10 the lowest available? If it's possible, I'd like to change my rating. I watched the movie with my Chinese girlfriend and with Chinese subtitles. I don't speak the language myself but the subtitles made more sense than the movie did. It's a bad imitation of far superior genre movies such as Alien, Species or The Thing and its attempts at building suspense were so predictable that they were more laughable than scary. I've seen plenty of low budget movies that were pretty good but this most certainly wasn't one of them. The closest I can come to finding a single redeeming feature is that it was short.

Well, it wasn't all that bad. There's always "UFO" (or Alien Uprising as it seems to be called too). The acting in "Stranded" was far better than in the other film. I wish I could say I watched these for comedy value but I felt violated by the lack of ... well... everything. Apart from Christian Slater. He's hot. Not a great actor. But I can tolerate him.Now I have to go shower to rid me of the *bluuuurgh* feeling I seem to have adopted whilst staring at the screen for what seemed an eternity (Oh, only 35 minutes in? Thought I'd been here for 3 hours).Having said all that, I think this film is one of those "pop it on in the background" kind of films (which is what I ended up doing) as it isn't exactly gripping; a little deja-vu; Predictable but I was half expecting that (did you see what I did there? *groan*)...

I thought the movie was really quite good. The plot didn't have too many holes, the visual effect were decent, and i am a fan of two of the main actors. Christian Slater, and Brendan Fehr (Jarred Boothe on Bones). 1) I do not agree with the other users saying it's and "Aliens" rip off. Not once did any of the Aliens ever mutate or think like humans. The Aliens were ruthless, acidic killers. The only time they "evolved" was in Prometheus, and that wasn't until the end of the film when the DNA from the octopus thing mixed with the "Engineer" race. 2) I liked that it was open ended. It left room for interpretation about where the asteroids came from, and why.3) While it was only 88 minutes, it was the perfect length. Often I find that most killer alien movies, Alien and it sequels, are far too long for their own good. 4) If the Aliens are supposed to be such ruthless killers, then the movies should have been more like the video games where the humans were rushed by wave after wave after wave of Aliens. Especially the first movie; I thought it moved slow and clunky. The Alien should have been able to pick them off all at once. Also after having seen Prometheus, why were none of the dead humans ever transformed into Alien-Human hybrids? And why was there only one Alien when they discovered an entire ship of eggs?5) It's completely believable that the Captain and Doctor would not believe the claims of seeing the monster. The woman did not report being cut by the tube with the spores, and the Carbon Monoxide poisoning would have made them hallucinate. 6) The only unbelievable part was that the alien thrived in an oxygen/carbon rich environment. Then they showed the air sacks on its neck to explain that.I'm tired of everyone trying to compare movies to one another like some jaded hipster. "Oh it's too much like this..." or "This was too unbelievable because this...". IT'S A F*&%ING SCI-FI MOVIE! The whole point of sci-fi is that it's not believable or can be compared to another. Hell if people really paid attention the the entire Dead Space series ripped of the movie Event Horizon. Seriously, watch this movie, don't compare it or try to make it something it's not, and enjoy the ride. You won't be disappointed, I promise.