What a beautiful movie!

Too many fans seem to be blown away

Memorable, crazy movie

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

A cheap and derivative Canadian science fiction film about an off-screen alien invasion and a bunch of characters holed up in a small airport one night and struggling to survive against the odds. This film was directed by Friday the 13th helmer Sean S. Cunningham, if you can believe that, and is notable for being an entirely unoriginal riff on previous films such as ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13, ALIENS, THE LANGOLIERS, and most notably THE THING.Usually I'm not a big fan of these cheapie productions which have nothing new to say. However, there's a lightness of touch about TERMINAL INVASION that makes it a fun watch, and most of the fun comes in the casting of Bruce Campbell as the murderous convict who you just know will end up being the movie's hero. Campbell is huge fun in the part, not particularly flamboyant or holding the attention here, but delivering liners and machismo a-plenty and full of the charisma that his fans know and love.The rest of the cast is average and of TV movie standard. The CGI effects are quite horrid and thankfully only used sparingly. However, TERMINAL INVASION does have a fast pace and plenty of low rent action, so as a sci-fi flick it's never boring. I suppose you could argue that the story of THE THING is so strong that it stands up to being repeatedly copied by inferior movies and makes even them halfway watchable due to the suspense inherent in the premise.

I wasn't expecting Oscar-worthy material, I knew it wasn't going to be that kind of movie, so I tuned in with the right mindset and hoping to get some kind of entertainment. But I didn't care for Terminal Invasion at all. It does have one good asset, and that is the fun and presence-strong performance of Bruce Campbell. Unfortunately for Campbell, the rest of the acting is an uneasy mish-mash of overacting and underacting. I admit I did like the idea that the monster was utilised sparsely, potentially it made everything more suspenseful. But at the same time, there is a danger of making the monster bland in that it's there but with little memorable or well-developed about it, and sadly that was the case with Terminal Invasion. There are far more amateurish-looking movies out there, but the special effects are lacking in any finesse and everything about it visually suggests a rushed production. That may not have been the case, but it just looked like it to me. The dialogue is weak with a lot of cheese, clichés and lines that add absolutely nothing to the story or atmosphere at all. The characters are little more than cardboard-cut-outs that we learn next to nothing about, while the story is derivative and predictable with a lack of suspense and eventually tedious pacing. Overall, did nothing for me but Bruce Campbell gives it some essence of watchability. 2/10 Bethany Cox

Oh dear. This reminded me of the kinds of films that I used to rent on VHS purely because of the cover.I bought this because of Bruce. And to be honest, he is, as is usual, the highpoint of this film which has the qualities of a day time soap.The average X files episode used to sweep this kind of stuff in 45 minutes and there is a high degree of stretch to the story. The acting is pretty poor as well with some fairly desperate stereotyping.As a cable production Cunningham (Director) probably had little to work with budget wise but this looks and feels cheap from the opening scene.Avoid.

I can tell you this, Bruce Campbell changed my rating for this movie from a 0 out of 10 to a 3 out of ten. Poor Bruce always getting the s**t end of the stick. The script, the direction, the effects everything was on a C movie level. Sean S. Cunningham how could you accept directing this piece of crap ?! I thought a sci-fi with Bruce and directed by Sean could be a good movie. Wrong ! This is 80 minutes of my life I will never get back ! Don´t see this movie ! that is an order ! Here is some trivia for all of you out there. The car crash is footage from The long kiss goodnight. They have changed the front of the car and some other things with cgi. Thats how little money they had to spend on this. TV movies suck ! Thank you for your time.-H-