E.L.E

Impressive work on the script by what I assume was a team of 13-year old writers.

So we have a Crimson Tide situation turned into an alien invasion scenario.

The family dynamic of the protagonist initially makes absolutely no sense, then it turns interesting when the focus shifts in the sister's boyfriend and his background. Then turns back to predictable and cheesy towards the end.

The confrontation with the hard ass base commander also mixes some overused tropes with some interesting points by the two characters, but in the end is never resolved. Or if it is I was too bored to follow by that time.

E. L. E. Is one of those short-lived series that were going to be the next big thing. A couple of ten minute short episodes to consume on your phone. But like the rest of them they all crop up now as 'movies' on Prime and the like. Stuck together this one added up to 43 minutes which is very short by any standard for a movie.

All that said, the premise is quite clever. It is filmed in one continuous take. Like 1917 there might be some clever edit cuts in there somewhere but they weren't obvious. That makes me rate the actors as their performance was decent anyway but doing it under that additional pressure is impressive.

The location plays the part of a military base well. Wouldn't be surprised if it was a disused base. The set decoration in the command centre is very cheap looking sadly which detracts from the authenticity. Shop-bought laptops and yellow walkie talkies that looked like toys.

The story had legs but too many plot holes. The end was a bit disappointing as it didn't explain or conclude much.

Another half hour, a stronger script with an ending, and a bigger set budget and this could have been really good.

....i have never seen a movie/serie this bad!!!!

Actors TERRIBLE!! Plot HORRIBLE, you get defcon 1, you have to launche a NUKE at the whitehouse and the people in command are like lovers who have a fight becouse one of them cheated.

There face expressions, how they behave the way they talk ETC is just horrible. I have seen a lot of B and even C grade movies/series but this is for sure a Z grade.

Every second i watched my brain got errors i could not follow what was happening becouse it was sooo badly played.

And the base looked more like a windows helpdesk in india then an actual militairy base Stop production and DO NOT CONTINU....

This review is for the E. L. E. "movie" on Tubi TV and not for the actual series. If you see this while scrolling around on Tubi TV, it looks like it's a movie but it's not. It's the pilot episode for a TV series. It was obviously not meant to be watched on its own. It's a lot of set-up and ends on a cliffhanger. This is the only episode Tubi has. I can't even tell if any more episodes have been made. I don't know of there even will be any more episodes. It has been five years since this one came out. As a thing to just watch on its own, this just doesn't work at all. Without the rest of the series, this is just a waste of time.

The movie has a good approach, where de camera is non-stop rolling.

This really hook you up with the ongoing drama, the choices and plot.

The good thing about the plot is that you don't really know anything, and the mystery part is a good one for this kind of a movie.

I think this movie can match the "cloverfield" from 2008 kid of movie. But I like this one a little more, because cloverfield had some part where the camera was turned off. (E. L. E feels a lot more natural because of that)

The movie is somewhat short, and i want more.

I hope this movie get a part 2, where the action continues or take an approach somewhere else on the world with the same event.