Invasion Planet Earth

I have a thing for disaster movies or be it alien/space movies. Honestly I do not have any expectations from this one. You know something on the lines of all those Asylum movies would suffice for me. But this is just beyond worst.

I rarely ever ever give up on a movie midway no matter how crap it is but for this one at around 45min mark, I just lost my patience.

The trivia says that it took many years for the team to bring it out. While its a commendable fact that they did not give up on their dream project or whatev, am sorry to say the final output is not digestible at any level.

The story does leave (quite) a bit to be desired and the editing could have been a lot better which started me skipping through the film after about 35 minutes. I tried to pretend I was watching a 70's sci-fi but that didn't help. I understand that some people worked hard to get this movie made and I understand the difficulties they had to overcome and I like the concept of the story but the end result is just not watchable nor believable. Maybe rewrite the script into a book (after some necessary changes to the story)?

What the producers have used as a selling point for the movie (it took a 100 years to complete) has set it up to be ridiculed and sadly for legitimate reasons. I can forgive bad CGI but not poorly recorded dialogue, ever. It sounds terrible in some areas and almost average in others. The image is barely professional in parts too. It looks amateur mainly because it's so soft and cheap looking. The story itself had me wondering why no one had taken this team to the side early on and questioned its overall message and goal. It has lots of genres blended together but with out a cohesive tie. I was lost for most of it and even laughed at some of the silly lines. I reasoned that if this had the intention of being a parody or spoof comedy it would be fitting. It doesn't fail because of its low budget roots. It doesn't fail because of its funny CGI. It fails because it's a weak story constructed poorly and the producers let the sound down (cardinal sin). It fails because we expect more in this day and age and despite the 'time' this took to complete it just doesn't cut it.

I was lured in by this 2019 sci-fi movie's rather impressive and interesting cover/poster. And sad to say, then the movie's cover/poster was actually the best thing about the entire movie experience. Yeah, I kid you not.

The storyline told in "Invasion Planet Earth" by writers Simon Cox and Simon Bovey just didn't work out all that well. It felt confusing and shattered, sort of as if director Simon Cox was trying to assemble bits and pieces of various broken storyline fragments and tie it together to make a whole new storyline. It just didn't work, and the movie was a confusing mess of a non-linear experience.

The acting in the movie was actually adequate enough, taking into consideration the premise that the actors and actresses were working under. Granted, the actors and actresses didn't really have much of a coherent storyline or script to work with, and it was showing.

Visually the movie was adequate, not impressive mind you, but adequate. There are many other sci-fi movies out there with far more impressive and visually pleasing special effects. And for me, a sci-fi movie must have spectacular and realistic effects. "Invasion Planet Earth" wasn't really able to brag about having special effects and CGI that will blow you away and leave you breathless.

For me, it was the scramble confusing heap of a storyline that killed the movie. Jumping back and forth between different realities or what not just didn't work for me, especially since the red thread got lost in transition.

Ultimately, "Invasion Planet Earth" is not an impressive sci-fi movie, nor is it a particularly outstanding or memorable one. I managed to get halfway through the ordeal and just gave up given the atrocity that passes as a storyline. And I have absolutely no interest in returning to watch the rest of the movie.

My rating of "Invasion Planet Earth" settles on a generous three out of ten stars.

Thomas Dunn's day cant be any worse than mine after watching this film .....17 years in the making ,and i felt ever one of them... before anyone starts ...yes i know it was made on a low budget and yes an independent film but you have to give the viewer something to work with.... its not what i would call a nights entertainment watching something that you are fighting with yourself not to switch off and you keep thinking well it may get better as it goes along but it don't ,....when it could be me ? Looking at some of the other reviews on here 10 s and 9s ect.