This movie is like one of those no-name generic products you buy on the shelves of a supermarket. It has all the ingredients of the original, but not the presentation or quality.
Now stop me if you've heard this one before. A shadowy company sends a group of marines to a prison planet, where they are betrayed by the Weaselly Company Guy(TM) and come face to face with an acid-dripping monster who hides in the shadows. After an initial confrontation, they team up with the surviving prisoners, as the alien proceeds to pick them off one at a time. A kick-butt female heroine defeats the monster!
Yes, kiddies, it's the plot line to the Alien movies, especially the second and third ones. No budget, poor special effects (you barely see what the monster looks like, which is probably good, because what you do see looks pretty cheap) and some truly bad acting.
Oh, yeah, and the heroine is a lesbian. Why? Only way they can make the supposed plot twist at the end work! And the director wanted to see two chicks making out!
The film has some actresses who aren't bad looking, but they can't act worth a darn. Most of the actors have terrible accents, so you can barely make out what they are saying. Then they keep interspersing these graphics to show you where everyone is moving, probably because they filming didn't make it very clear who was where...
Okay, now for the plot twist. The mission leader's second in command is also her lesbian lover. Of course, her girlfriend gets kidnapped by the monster, forcing her to go on a Ripley-like rescue mission to get her before the big explosion wipes everything out. She finds her naked lying on the floor, but alive, and kills the alien, who inexplicably manages to regenerate himself despite getting his head blown off with a grenade. The survivors take off for an uncharted planet and go into suspended animation...
(SPOILER ALERT)
Okay, the big surprise ending is that the Girlfriend is pregnant with the alien's baby! Except you know this is coming about ten minutes before they do it, they so badly telegraph the action! Not to mention the implied alien rape is a little...um much.
Okay, some of the dialog is kind of clever, and unlike a lot of military movies, they seem to get some of the jargon and tactics about right. But overall, it's a shameless ripoff of someone else's better ideas.
Now stop me if you've heard this one before. A shadowy company sends a group of marines to a prison planet, where they are betrayed by the Weaselly Company Guy(TM) and come face to face with an acid-dripping monster who hides in the shadows. After an initial confrontation, they team up with the surviving prisoners, as the alien proceeds to pick them off one at a time. A kick-butt female heroine defeats the monster!
Yes, kiddies, it's the plot line to the Alien movies, especially the second and third ones. No budget, poor special effects (you barely see what the monster looks like, which is probably good, because what you do see looks pretty cheap) and some truly bad acting.
Oh, yeah, and the heroine is a lesbian. Why? Only way they can make the supposed plot twist at the end work! And the director wanted to see two chicks making out!
The film has some actresses who aren't bad looking, but they can't act worth a darn. Most of the actors have terrible accents, so you can barely make out what they are saying. Then they keep interspersing these graphics to show you where everyone is moving, probably because they filming didn't make it very clear who was where...
Okay, now for the plot twist. The mission leader's second in command is also her lesbian lover. Of course, her girlfriend gets kidnapped by the monster, forcing her to go on a Ripley-like rescue mission to get her before the big explosion wipes everything out. She finds her naked lying on the floor, but alive, and kills the alien, who inexplicably manages to regenerate himself despite getting his head blown off with a grenade. The survivors take off for an uncharted planet and go into suspended animation...
(SPOILER ALERT)
Okay, the big surprise ending is that the Girlfriend is pregnant with the alien's baby! Except you know this is coming about ten minutes before they do it, they so badly telegraph the action! Not to mention the implied alien rape is a little...um much.
Okay, some of the dialog is kind of clever, and unlike a lot of military movies, they seem to get some of the jargon and tactics about right. But overall, it's a shameless ripoff of someone else's better ideas.
