Occupation

Not a good film.

Poor camera work and editing, too many light flares, too many swing shots and enough trolley work to make you travel sick.

Script is dry, delivery ranges between p*ss poor to not too bad and story extremely predictable, occasionally it does come together with the odd pithy comment, well delivered and well timed so not all is bad.

Special effects are on par with a home movie, action sequences too 'acted' although the humanoid aliens outfits look good.

On the plus side, all the actors are giving it 100%, even at the cheesiest of moments. And there is a lot of cheese.

What I did like was the locale, scenery is great, and whomever the extras are (I assume local folks?) come across as having a really good time.

While not the best of movies, it's a slow but solid start to the producer, writer and director. I'd be interested in seeing their next science fiction film.

This is my very first review, simply because this movie is bad and on IMDb it is seen as okay with an 6.6 average. The movie is simply not worth that 6.6 if you go deeper into the demographics you can also see huge spikes around the high grades.. It is not fair, do we really need to rely on metacritics because people abuse a system?

If you look at their reviews by the way.. All proud to rival hollywood in terms of sci fi because of the budget, does that mean the whole movie diserves a 8/10? Is the COMPLETE package there?! Or are they just making a "statement" while people expect an enjoyable film they see this crap? It is not fair to be honest.

Although not boring, it is a piece of majestic crap. The most infantile screenplay ever... embarrassing at times.

Can't understand the IMDB high rating.

Aliens please take me, the humankind is not an intelligent race.

Although this was a good attempt at an invasion film, the choppy story line spread with a huge amount if cheese was to much for me. The predictability if it all, meant that I was bored by halfway through this film.

Occupation tells a story that is cut together across almost a years worth of action and tells the tale from the first invasion to the first major success of the war.

I enjoyed it, and a big thumbs up to the Australian film industry. The acting and direction is great.

The script covers many months of activity and reveals the personality of characters at quite a pace. The backstories are raced through so you only get a small background about them which needs to carry the characters personlaity behaviour that drives their actions through the movie and you don't quite get to feel immersed into the conflicts of characters as much as could have been the case.

I think this story line alone could have been turned into a successful TV series of at least 4 or more seasons. This would allow each character's backstory to grow and allow the audience to be captured by the potential depth of light and dark sides of each character. There is plenty of story line in between everything you see in the movie. As a TV series, I would have certainly watched it.

Good movie, that could be a great TV series.