Pretty Good

Horrible, fascist and poorly acted

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

The Harry Bromley-Davenport Xtro series gets worse as it goes along as here a crew is sent to an island to get rid of any left over ammo or weaponry from WWII so that they can create a refueling station. Only this crew likely wouldn't last a week and a half in the real American military with the drug use and serious mental problems that they show. In turn they stumble across an alien who is quite obviously upset and needs to open a can of whoop-ass. Sub par effects and even worse music. I would definitely suggest avoiding this entirely. Does star Robert Culp as Major Guardino who sets the crew up for the mission. Just stick with the original in the series (which this movie has nothing to do with).

This is a long line of Hollywood Nazi propaganda bombs that are funded by the immensely wealthy Nazi party. Again, all we get are a pitiful excuse to kill as many brunette women as possible. It has become a joke, and would be funny if it weren't for the wackos who think that this makes a film a classic. That makes it dangerous. On the surface, it is about a Roswell type affair, searching for an alien cover up by the government (try to make sense out of that? No, you can't, since the military could ask for billions of dollars more in budget if they could show evidence of aliens, so we have the most ludicrous idea since those idiots who thought Leonardo da Vinci met Jesus Christ and knew his lineage.) But the propaganda, like most Nazi propaganda, is not even subtle. How any person can not see this is beyond comprehension.What is really horrible is that great scripts and ideas are shot down by producers and directors for crap like this.

The XTRO-trilogy (if you can call it that) is an odd phenomenon. The three movies are totally unrelated, except for the fact that they all were directed by Harry Bromley Davenport and they all deal with extra-terrestrial encounters. The first XTRO was a peculiar little sci-fi/horror/drama-gem. A weird mixture of genres, but a good flick nonetheless. XTRO II: The Second Encounter was a shameless ALIEN rip-off, solid in creature-terror, but over-all bad. And XTRO 3: Watch The Skies unfolds more like a 90 minutes episode of THE X-FILES mixed with military stuff and ripped details from PREDATOR. So go figure.Now, XTRO 3 is slightly better than the second one only because it actually has a bit of a plot. It has also another rather unique aspect: it's a sort of alien-revenge-flick (there aren't many of those, are there?) A group of expendable military misfits are send out to clean up a remote island, for the military has plans to build a base there. Soon they discover that there's actually an all different purpose to their visit as they encounter an alien on that island.The actors are unknown & mediocre and the characters are all clichés. Except for Andrew"Djinn"Divoff. It's nice to see him again, but his performance is rather unnoticeable, and you get the idea that he's only any good when he can deliver witty one-liners. The camera-work is pretty bad too. The musical score is at times really cheap, but sometimes they surprisingly use the right scary sounds. But it was at those moments that I suspected they used parts from other movie's soundtracks.As for the alien effects: they're pretty good, especially the moving facial features. There are some decent gore-effects too, but the rest of the special effects look crappy.At times you will have to fight off boredom while watching this flick, but the occasional voice-over from the main character makes you want to know how it all will end. So, if your looking for an off-beat sci-fi quicky, XTRO 3 might be worth a watch. More demanding sci-fi fans should better ignore it.

The basic plot has already been revealed. A bunch of gung-ho soldiers are on a mission on an island and run into some sort of alien creature. So far so good. Might make an entertaining movie.However- all the actors really, _REALLY_ suck. They are type-cast in a way which makes it obvious from the very beginning how they will react to any situation. The next problem is that the plot is as boring and predictable as the actors. Unless you are somewhat challenged you are always at lest two steps ahead of the movie, and nothing will surprise you.Whatever you feel like watching, just ignore this film. It is a complete waste of time.