Useless Humans

Well, I was entertained by what director Stephen Ohl managed to dish out with this 2020 movie titled "Useless Humans".

Sure, this wasn't an award-winning movie in any sense, but it just had that certain quality to it. In fact, I found it to be a very worthy contender for being to the alien invader genre, what "Shaun of the Dead" was to the zombie genre and "Lesbian Vampire Killers" was to the vampire genre. In other words, an enjoyable movie that manages to be witty and fun enough to not take itself overly serious, but still remaining a good addition to the genre.

The storyline is very straight forward, but still manages to be entertaining and fun. And the twist towards the end was definitely a great addition to the movie. I really liked that part.

It was partly the storyline and partly the cast that made the movie work, and they definitely had a great cast ensemble put together for the movie, with the likes of Josh Zuckerman, Rushi Kota, Davida Williams and Luke Youngblood in the lead roles. Now, I wasn't particularly familiar with these actors and actresses, but they really carried the movie quite well.

The alien was so-so. I mean, it worked out well enough, but it could have been better if done differently. But hey, it worked okay with the rest of the movie, so that was good.

My rating of "Useless Humans" is a six out of ten stars. I was positively surprised by the outcome of this movie, and I was entertained from start to end. Definitely well worth sitting down to watch.

Well at least they are trying to be fun, but they only reach as far as witty. it has a promising start, but from there its the verbal sprout of try to be comedy,by not using slap stick and situational physical pranks wouldve saved the day thinks the grumpy old man. its a cliched flick have seen hoard of titles doing this better. its a 5 a no more than that. its an inbetweener for all you drunks out there

This is not too bad movie, although the characters tend to just stand and stare instead of actually trying to fight the alien. There are some actually funny moments and jokes which is more than most comedies nowadays have. The acting is good enough and the cheap visual effects didn't bother me. The music was too loud at points but other than that the sounds were ok.

...if the world ended tomorrow, I would definitely regret the 90 minutes I just wasted watching this. On the upside it gave me some time to dial in the settings on my sound system.

There were a few funny moments, and at least the right characters died. And the first aid tutorial might just come in handy someday.

The characters are introduced in an amusingly effortless way, making it easy to follow what was going on, just as as a comedy should. Why all this appears with horror/sci-fi trappings is a little odd, but I say -- don't look a gift horse in the mouth.