Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Sadly, this was a good story with a fairly decent cast which was spoiled by a bad director & bad screenwriter. This movie focuses all of its energy on the worst scenes. Starting off with a drunken has-been schlock writer hitting up everyone for money. A boring start to put everyone to sleep.Then his finding a truly unbelievable unrealistic unremarkable unidentifiable UFO with a human ship inside a jungle mountain cave. If I had not read the plot & comments, I never would have known that was a UFO with a sea vessel. You could not tell either by looking at it. What the heck was the point of putting a 500 year old sea vessel on the UF0? Other than to say it was a ship lost between Panama & Spain 500 years earlier. Surely a better way to establish timeline than that. It just created an unrecognizable conglomeration which the audience could not decipher and was not on the screen long enough to identify... even using freeze frame. The only time you get to see what the UF0 looked like was a pottery model of it at the very end.3/4 of this movie deteriorates into nonstop, shoot-em-up Matlock chase scenes where every ridiculous global gov't organization hunts them down. One boring chase scenario after another. They never explained how anyone knew he had seen the UFO in order to be waiting to kill him upon his hotel arrival immediately following his discovery. They should have inserted a phone call prior to his arrival to establish a reason he was being pursued. Again, only the plot description & reviews clarified what was occurring. It certainly wasn't clear in the film. Apparently, this director thought an entire movie of shooting chase scenes could appeal to an audience. But wasted all of his opportunity money scenes.They dubbed George Kennedy's voice with someone else. Even his laugh. What kind of moron would replace George Kennedy's distinctive, award winning, recognizable voice? That would be as logical as hiding Miss Universe under a paper bag.The slimy faced cyborg scenes with ooze & dangling eye were ridiculously laughable.While a lot of filming time went into morphing his wife into an alien, it was poorly done, unrealistic effects in the dark and the voice was so distorted you could barely understand it. Not to mention the alien body did not sell the perception of being believable as human impostors... much less as his own wife. This should have been a money scene & highlight of the film which came across as a wet claymation, poor mans puppeteer fiasco with nearly unintelligible audio.They also missed the opportunity to see inside the UFO & unnecessarily screwed it up further by needlessly adding an earth sea ship in the same mountain cave as if they had both been manually stuffed inside an unbelievable location... rather than finding a lone UFO in a more rational discovery location.The premise might have been more believable if more of the film had been spent on the aliens & their agenda with a more believable alien physique & appearance from better spent effects & makeup companies. It was clear the crew was hired by nepotism rather than talent.The entire movie was poorly directed, poorly executed & poorly scripted. It missed every opportunity to utilize talent & significant plot opportunities and wasted the film on cheap chase scenes, shootings, drunken lothario scenes & ruined potential good scenes with bad makeup, bad effects, bad writing & bad directing.Not worth watching unless you want to see the story butchered by bad direction & effects.

Alcoholic struggling writer Ted Angelo (an amusing performance by the always dependable Franco Nero) discovers a UFO hidden in a cave in the Columbian jungle. Ted tries to spread the word about his discovery, but the CIA, KGB, the mob, Neo-Nazis, and even aliens do their best to suppress the news. Sound good? Well, this movie doesn't amount to much despite the loopy script by Nellow Rossati and Roberto Gianviti. Rossati's pedestrian direction not only generates precious little tension, momentum, and excitement, but also allows the erratic pace to lag throughout (the opening third in particular is pretty talky and drawn-out). Moreover, the action scenes tend to be rather tepid and the plot becomes more increasingly ludicrous as it unfolds, although there's still a nifty surprise twist pertaining to one of the main female characters at the conclusion. The cast do their best with the muddled material: Deborah Moore registers nicely as Angelo's feisty English gal pal June, Mary Stavin likewise does well as icy bitch Maureen De Havilland, Andy Sidaris movie regular Rodrigo Obregon has a cool part as vicious flunky June, William Berger is likable in a regrettably minor role as Angelo's kindly friend Alonso Kintero, and a hilariously miscast George Kennedy provides a few substantial unintentional laughs as pernicious German (!) heavy Heinrich Holzmann. The exotic locations add some much-needed flavor and a decent smattering of tasty female nudity prevents things from becoming too tedious. However, the jumbled narrative makes it often hard to tell what's going on -- and even harder to care. Overall not a bad movie; just a really blah and hence instantly forgettable one.

The storyline is akin to hanging out with a drunk in Mexico. While you might want to respect the lore, to favor the new friend, in the end you know the story is full of crap, and holes. This is the experience of the movie: you hang around in the hope there is an ultimate payoff. The journey is not fun, as it is not stupid enough to be fun. It is more like watching Rockford Files on the cheap. If you want to hear the lizard-people's manifesto, zip to the end. Strange to me how the "advanced" races from space sweat slime and want to eat humans. Just can't see how they make advanced tech with clumsy talons, and appetites for sentient flesh.

This one´s quite original. Italians did not have enough money to make those big movies we all tend to like or at least watch. So they put cheap funny flics like this one together. There are Nazis, Extraterrestrials, Cyborgs, a Spanish gold treasure and of course there´s Franco Nero as the always drunk Soldier of Fortune, who has to pull it all off. As you can see, they didn´t let anything out. And, I think, it works. The FX are cheap but enjoyable, the pacing is fast (it has to be regarding the really dumb plot) and the acting is quite reliable (of course Franco Nero is great as ever and there´s also Hollywood veteran George Kennedy as a Nazi Villain). Director Nello Rossati did the also very enjoyable sequel Django Strikes Again before. A Movie you might check out, too.