Creature: It's a Killing Machine... From Outer Space

I was happy to see a new Sci Fi flick with John Savage in it, but I unfortunately only watched a half hour of it before I became disinterested. >From what I saw of it, a scientist (Savage) was using an alien for some experiment when it got loose, thus the reason for the "Lockdown". The rest that I saw was when some commandos came in to try to contain the situation. I immediately became bored as I watched and waited for these professionals to do their job, but it was all a bunch of dark corners, smoky hallways and people disappearing. The alien appeared early on in the movie but I don't know what the heck it was. I just know that I was disappointed in this movie and do not have any desire to watch it again.

Let's be honest. Alien Lockdown, also known as Creature, is a crude, low-budget rip-off of several blockbuster sci-fi classics, most notably Aliens, Predator, and Resident Evil. The only reason it isn't at the very bottom of the pile is because it relies on a proven formula. But make no mistake: this is not a good movie, and it falls far short of the iconic films it tries to imitate.

The story follows a special operations team sent to a secret military lab for a cleanup mission. Their job is to cover up evidence of an experiment gone horribly wrong-an experiment involving a mad scientist, gene manipulation, ancient alien DNA, and who knows what else. The result is a creature that looks like the xenomorph from Aliens, has the head of a Predator, and was created in a lab for military purposes, much like the experiments by the Umbrella Corporation in Resident Evil. Now, the creature has escaped, is on a killing spree, and only the special ops team stands between it and the rest of the world.

The influence of the 1986 movie Aliens is especially obvious. The weapons, the looks of the multi-level facility, the creature and its offsprings, some of the characters, the core story, the music, the sound effects, and even parts of the dialogue are straight out of Aliens. But while Aliens had relatively few logical gaps, Alien Lockdown is full of them. Many events make no sense or happen for no apparent reason, pulling you out of the story. I often found myself confused and needing time to figure out what was going on or what had just happened.

If you love alien creature movies, Alien Lockdown might be worth watching-but only if it's free. While I've definitely seen worse films, I wouldn't recommend spending a penny on this one.

When I sat down to watch "Alien Lockdown" (aka "Creature"), I hadn't even heard about the movie, nor did I even know who starred in it. I will say that when I saw John Savage's name on the screen, I felt that there was potential for the movie being adequate.

It should be said that "Alien Lockdown" is a low budget movie. And while that is being said, I will also have to say that I have seen far worse low budget sci-fi horror movies than this one.

The movie is about some alien creature going on a rampage in an isolated facility, and a group of highly trained soldiers are sent in to take care of the situation. However, they come to learn some dark truths and find that all are not playing on the same team.

The creature or alien in the movie was a strange hybrid of three already famous movie monsters; the xenomorph (from the "Alien" franchise), the Yautja (the predator creature from the "Predator" franchise) and the Brundlefly (from "The Fly"). And truth be told, then it actually worked out well enough, despite it not really being all that menacing or having quite enough time on the screen.

As for the acting in the movie, well people were doing good jobs with their given roles, and it was indeed John Savage (playing Dr. Woodman) and Michelle Goh (playing Talon) whom stood out as the most memorable performances in the movie.

There is a good amount of action throughout the movie, but it just doesn't make up for the low budget feel to the movie.

All in all, a less than average sci-fi horror movie, but it is worth watching a single time if you have nothing else at hand.

In a top-secret military facility, a team of scientists under the command of Dr. Woodman (John Savage) are developing a "super soldier" blending several DNAs including alien DNA. When the experiment goes wrong, a group of elite soldiers are assigned by the military Anslow (Martin Kove) to exterminate the lethal creatures created by Dr. Woodman.

"Alien Lockdown" is another poor production of the Sci-Fi Channel. The screenplay is a mess, there is no character development, the cinematography is awful and the CGI of the predator-like creature follows the usual standard of this channel. My vote is three.

Title (Brazil): "Criatura" ("Creature")

As a veteran viewer of all Nu Image B movie crapola this was a very entertaining movie. The story is not that special, everyone that was renting flicks in the 80's and early 90's can dream a plot about an underground facility , a monster and a crack team of soldiers. However for B movie and certainly NU IMAGE standards the production values are high (sets, fx) and the cast is rather good. Especially the female lead that is convincing. Of course one could wonder what a James Marshall or John Savage do in these kind of movies. Monster is a ripoff of predator but the twist later on in the film with the beastie is rather nice. It is worth a rent and a view, you can do a lot worse with the infamous one word titles from nu image ( it is called Creature in the Netherlands) that seem to specialize nowadays in big ass creatures and is actually competing with UFO films in the race to be the king of the B movies.