The 2018 sci-fi movie "After the Lethargy" (aka "Alien Invasion") was, of course, a movie that I had never heard about prior to sitting down to watch it here in 2025. Truth be told, I harbored zero expectations to writer and director Marc Carreté's movie, but of course I opted to give it the benefit of the doubt. The movie's cover was actually interesting enough to make me stop up and take notice.
First of all, the movie had a better production value than I had initially anticipated. So it wasn't the ultra low budget garbage that I had prepared myself for watching, and that certainly counted for something.
The storyline in the movie was a scrambled affair that made very little coherent sense. And it was a struggle to keep feigning an interest in the mess that passed as being the movie's narrative.
I wonder where the movie was supposed to take place, as the license plate on the police car reads "Republic of Somewhere". I kid you not.
Needless to say that I wasn't familiar with a single actor or actress on the cast list, and the acting performances were actually fair.
The CGI animated alien was pretty atrocious to look at. And it just ruined the movie, as it looked like something from a 1990s computer game that was discarded for being too fake even back then. A movie about aliens and alien abductions needs to have proper special effects, and "After the Lethargy" just didn't have that, and it worked against the overall enjoyment of the movie.
My rating of writer and director Marc Carreté's 2018 movie lands on a very, very generous two out of ten stars.
